San Jose Police Department

A man was under arrest in San Jose after a bizarre car crash and attack Sunday at a Walmart. Police are investigating what motivated the man to drive into the busy store. “We don't know if there was an intended target or not,” said Officer Albert Morales, of the San Jose Police Department. At least four people were injured when the suspect crashed into the Walmart , exited the vehicle, picked up a blunt object from inside the store and began to assault customers, police said.

A man was under arrest in San Jose after a bizarre car crash and attack Sunday at a Walmart. Police are investigating what motivated the man to drive into the busy store. “We don't know if there was an intended target or not,” said Officer Albert Morales, of the San Jose Police Department. At least four people were injured when the suspect crashed into the Walmart , exited the vehicle, picked up a blunt object from inside the store and began to assault customers, police said.

At least four people were injured Sunday afternoon after a man crashed into a San Jose Walmart, exited the vehicle, picked up a blunt object from inside the store and began to assault customers, police said. The man drove a red two-door car between 10 and 20 feet into the store on the east side of the city about 11:15 a.m., said Officer Albert Morales, of the San Jose Police Department. Authorities have not released the identity of the man. One of the customers suffered a serious injury and was taken to a local hospital.

At least four people were injured Sunday afternoon after a man crashed into a San Jose Walmart, exited the vehicle, picked up a blunt object from inside the store and began to assault customers, police said. The man drove a red two-door car between 10 and 20 feet into the store on the east side of the city about 11:15 a.m., said Officer Albert Morales, of the San Jose Police Department. Authorities have not released the identity of the man. One of the customers suffered a serious injury and was taken to a local hospital.

Investigators have searched the Las Vegas home of a woman who claimed she scooped up a finger along with her chili at a Wendy's restaurant last month. The San Jose Police Department, working with its counterparts in Las Vegas, served the warrant Wednesday as part of the investigation into how a finger ended up in Anna Ayala's bowl of chili. "We are looking into every aspect in this case," San Jose police spokeswoman Gina Tepoorten said.

Rocked by accusations that a San Jose police officer used excessive force when he fatally shot a Vietnamese immigrant last week, police have taken their case to Vietnamese-language radio and newspapers to stem growing tensions in the city's sprawling Asian community. The public relations campaign, which began Sunday, expresses the department's "condolences" to the family of Cau Tran, a 25-year-old mother of two who died July 13 from a single gunshot wound to the chest in the kitchen of her home.

The father of a gang member-turned-state's-evidence was gunned down over the weekend in what investigators say was revenge or intimidation, but the son, Truong Dinh, testified in Van Nuys as scheduled Monday against the notorious Asian Boyz street gang. Dong Dinh, 64, answered the door at his north San Jose home Friday night and was shot to death execution-style by an unknown assailant. Police said there were no witnesses.

The body of a San Jose police officer was found on a grassy hillside in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Thursday, four days after his wife's body was found in the trunk of her car with her throat slashed. Coroner's investigators would not say whether officer Tom Harris died of a self-inflicted wound or under other circumstances. Sheriff's deputies and bloodhounds found Harris, a 15-year veteran of the force, after locating his abandoned car at 10:30 p.m.

A controversial new program to bill drunk driving suspects for the costs of their arrests, regardless of whether they are eventually convicted, has drawn fire from defense attorneys who say it is unconstitutional. "In this society, before you have to fork over money to the government, you're entitled to some due process," said Harry Robertson, an attorney in private practice in San Jose. "In this case, the officer writing the citation is all the due process you're going to get." However, Lt.

The father of a gang member-turned-state's-evidence was gunned down over the weekend in what investigators say was revenge or intimidation, but the son, Truong Dinh, testified in Van Nuys as scheduled Monday against the notorious Asian Boyz street gang. Dong Dinh, 64, answered the door at his north San Jose home Friday night and was shot to death execution-style by an unknown assailant. Police said there were no witnesses.

Five San Jose police officers have been placed on leave while the Police Department investigates the death of a man who was shot with a Taser stun gun, pepper-sprayed and struck with a baton during a struggle with police. Police said the incident began Monday morning when the man kicked in the door of a condominium. The resident did not know the man and chased him to a convenience store, where the two men, whose identities were being withheld, fought.

A woman who said she found a human finger in her bowl of Wendy's chili has been arrested and charged with attempted grand theft, but police said Friday that the monthlong mystery surrounding the owner of the digit and how it cropped up in the chili remained unsolved. Anna Ayala, 39, was taken into custody Thursday night at her Las Vegas home and held without bail at the Clark County Jail in Nevada, according to jailhouse records.

Investigators have searched the Las Vegas home of a woman who claimed she scooped up a finger along with her chili at a Wendy's restaurant last month. The San Jose Police Department, working with its counterparts in Las Vegas, served the warrant Wednesday as part of the investigation into how a finger ended up in Anna Ayala's bowl of chili. "We are looking into every aspect in this case," San Jose police spokeswoman Gina Tepoorten said.

An open grand jury on Thursday cleared a San Jose police officer of criminal wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a mentally ill Vietnamese woman who appeared to threaten bystanders with a knife or cleaver, which turned out to be an Asian vegetable peeler. The 18-member Santa Clara County criminal grand jury deliberated for less than three hours before deciding not to indict Chad Marshall on charges of murder or manslaughter in the July 13 shooting of Cau Bich Tran, 25 and the mother of two.

Rocked by accusations that a San Jose police officer used excessive force when he fatally shot a Vietnamese immigrant last week, police have taken their case to Vietnamese-language radio and newspapers to stem growing tensions in the city's sprawling Asian community. The public relations campaign, which began Sunday, expresses the department's "condolences" to the family of Cau Tran, a 25-year-old mother of two who died July 13 from a single gunshot wound to the chest in the kitchen of her home.

The NAACP asked San Jose police Monday to put video cameras in squad cars and increase sensitivity training for officers after the president of the group's Silicon Valley chapter said he was treated rudely while being questioned. Rick Callender said his branch of the civil rights organization has received more than 20 complaints about San Jose officers' behavior in the last three months. Callender was stopped April 24 as he and Rod Diridon Jr.

After receiving nearly 1,000 calls so far, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California is launching a statewide campaign to alert motorists to its 6-month-old "Driving While Black or Brown" hotline number. The hotline takes complaints from African American or Latino drivers who believe they were stopped, and perhaps even searched, by law enforcement officials because of their race.

An open grand jury on Thursday cleared a San Jose police officer of criminal wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a mentally ill Vietnamese woman who appeared to threaten bystanders with a knife or cleaver, which turned out to be an Asian vegetable peeler. The 18-member Santa Clara County criminal grand jury deliberated for less than three hours before deciding not to indict Chad Marshall on charges of murder or manslaughter in the July 13 shooting of Cau Bich Tran, 25 and the mother of two.

A police helicopter on a maintenance flight crashed in the middle of a city street Monday, killing both people on board. The pilot had not indicated any problems before the 3:45 p.m. crash, said San Jose police spokesman Rubens Dalaison. The first word of trouble came from 911 calls phoned in by people near the crash site, about 2 miles west of San Jose's airport and three blocks from Interstate 880.

After receiving nearly 1,000 calls so far, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California is launching a statewide campaign to alert motorists to its 6-month-old "Driving While Black or Brown" hotline number. The hotline takes complaints from African American or Latino drivers who believe they were stopped, and perhaps even searched, by law enforcement officials because of their race.