Overview
- Police responded around 11:40 a.m. Tuesday to the 500 block of El Paseo de Saratoga and found both adults dead in the shopping-center parking lot.
- Investigators located the crime scene in front of a European Wax Center and recovered a firearm at the site.
- San Jose police identified the shooter as Edgard Altamirano and said the woman he killed was his former girlfriend, age 24.
- The Homicide Unit is investigating the motive, and officers had closed the lot for several hours as they processed the scene.
- The case marks San Jose’s fourth homicide of 2026, and detectives asked anyone with information to contact the department’s Homicide Unit.