A 46-year-old man was shot and killed while hanging out in the
Aloha Club, near the edge of downtown Tuesday night.
A 46-year-old man was shot and killed while hanging out in the Aloha Club, near the edge of downtown Tuesday night.
About 8:36 p.m., police received a call from an employee at the club that a man had been shot, Sgt. Jim Gillio said. Police arrived at the bar three minutes later to find the victim dead in the bar, which is at 7287 Monterey St., near its corner with Seventh Street.
Police did not have a clear description of the shooter, who fled before police arrived, but they expected to have a sketch of the man by the end of today or Thursday, Gillio said.
It was unclear as of early Wednesday morning whether the shooter had already been in the bar or whether he came in off the street, Gillio said. In addition, police did not yet identify a motive, though they believe it was not gang-related, Gillio said.
The dead man has already been identified, but Gillio did not know whether his family had been notified of his death. The Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office will be performing an autopsy this morning.
The shooting death is the first slaying of 2009. Last year, there were three deaths – two by shooting and one by stabbing.
Osiris Quintero Munoz is about to go on trial murder in the stabbing death of 26-year-old Juan DeDios Arvizu Cabrera, who died outside the Rio Nilo bar and nightclub in downtown the morning of March 16. He will next appear in court 9 a.m. May 7.
In the afternoon of Sept. 29, Francisco Rodriguez Lopez, 19, was shot and killed while driving around north Gilroy. Someone in a separate car – carrying an unknown number of suspects – fired a pistol into the vehicle Lopez was traveling in. Lopez was hit before the unknown driver of the car he was in took him to a nearby hospital, where he died shortly thereafter.
In the final killing of 2008, 18-year-old Larry Martinez was shot and killed just a block from the Gilroy Police Department in what appeared to be a gang strike. The three men who approached Martinez before the shooting have not yet been identified by police.
More details on this developing story and photos from the scene will be posted later this morning.
