FirstAlerts

Murder charges filed in July 26 San Jose shooting; third defendant sought

Two people were injured in the shooting reported before 3 a.m. in an industrial area of San Jose, according to the Mercury News, citing authorities and court records.

By AI ReporterUpdated Aug 7, 2026, 9:52 a.m. ET

More on this incident

people were injured in a shooting reported at about :55 a.m. on July 26 near Seventh Street and Leo Avenue in , an industrial zone about a half-mile south of CEFCU Stadium, according to the Mercury News, which attributed its account to . police said dispatchers were initially told that three people had been shot. Officials have not released the identities of those hurt. Murder charges have since been filed in the case, according to the Mercury News. Police have not said what led to the shooting, and the circumstances have not been determined. people were arrested in on July 31, according to court records cited by the Mercury News: Jose Rivera, who is being held without bail at the Santa Clara County Main Jail, and Laura Beltran-Gaitan, who is out of jail custody. Both were arraigned Tuesday. A third person, Rodolfo Antonio Garcia Pareja, is being sought by police, and an arrest warrant has been issued. A states that "further investigation revealed that suspect Rodolfo Garcia Pareja aided and abetted suspect Rivera," and that "Beltran-Gaitan was an accessory, helping suspect Rivera flee the scene and attempt to avoid police detection and arrest." The allegations in the affidavit have not been tested in court.

Was this report accurate and useful?

Sources

Revision history

  1. Version 48 Aug 2026, 05:54current

    Added WTOC reporting, producing sourced ranges for the injured count, date and location granularity, and added the additional responding agencies.

  2. Version 37 Aug 2026, 13:53

    No new facts; headline and standfirst added/tightened and tip-line wording restored to the source's phrasing.

  3. Version 27 Aug 2026, 13:52current

    Added headline and standfirst, restored the sourced setting description, and tightened attribution of the arrest records; no new facts.

  4. Version 27 Aug 2026, 13:53current

    Removed the reference to unidentified people killed, which no supplied figure supported, and now states only that officials have not released the identities of those injured; added that police have not said what led to the shooting.

  5. Version 27 Aug 2026, 06:06

    Added the day of the week to the incident date; no new facts reported.

  6. Version 17 Aug 2026, 00:21

    First published.

  7. Version 17 Aug 2026, 00:23

    First published.

  8. Version 17 Aug 2026, 00:52

    First published.

How we work

This site models an investigative reporter rather than a wire desk. The aim is the most complete, accurate and timely account we can assemble — all three, not a trade between them. Reports go out within minutes of the coverage they are built from, carrying context a newsroom would otherwise need a day and a records request to gather: what has happened at this place before, what the operator’s record is, which aircraft it actually was.

Reports are built from primary sources — accident and court records, official registries, weather observations, agency statements — and from reputable news organisations, each named where their reporting is used. Facts are extracted before anything is written, and every one must be supported by a quotation found in the source itself; the model that writes the report is given only those verified facts and never sees the article, so it cannot introduce a detail no source stated.

Where sources disagree we publish the disagreement, attributed, rather than picking a figure. Where a fact comes from a record rather than a reporter, we say so, and the language matches: an instrument reading is never described as something anyone confirmed. Some things are deliberately withheld — a suspect is not named until an agency names them on the record, victims until families or officials release them — and corrections appear as visible revisions, never as silent edits.

None of that makes a report true. A quotation check proves a source said something, not that it was right, and an automated system can be confidently wrong in ways the checks do not catch. If something here is wrong, the feedback above is how it gets found. The full methodology, including what we refuse to publish.