San Jose: Victim in triple homicide was city housing employee, mayor says

"Without naming the person, Mahan said Wednesday that one of the victims worked for the city in its housing division. He added that the city has made counselors available for grieving colleagues. "It's heartbreaking," Mahan said. "I've been thinking a lot about the victims and their loved ones." The police department has not announced any new information on a shooting suspect, though Mahan said detectives are "pursuing all leads and conducting a thorough investigation," but declined to say more "to let the investigation play out.""

"'In the meantime, we're going to focus on the victims and everybody affected, including our housing department and many employees at City Hall, who were very shook up today (and) yesterday, as some of them started to learn the news. So it's a very, very sad situation.'"

Three people were killed in a triple shooting just after midnight in the 200 block of Chynoweth Avenue in South San Jose. Responding officers found a gravely wounded woman outdoors and two more seriously wounded people, a man and a woman, inside an apartment. The woman inside was pronounced dead at the scene and the other two died after being taken to a hospital. One victim worked in the city's housing division and counselors have been made available to colleagues. Detectives are pursuing leads and no suspect has been announced, raising the city's homicide total to 21.

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