Police: Surveillance images capture 3rd suspect in office complex homicide

San Jose Police photo 

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KTVU and wires) – Police say surveillance video captured two suspects involved in a homicide at an office complex on Lundy Avenue. The man in the denim shirt was later killed in an officer-involved shooting.

Police say they are still looking for the suspect in the black shirt.

A third suspect, who does not appear in the video was killed in a separate officer-involved shooting.

The most recent officer-involved shooting in this case occurred Monday night at about 6:54 p.m. on Kirkhaven Court at Stoneyhaven Way when five or six shots rang out, according to witnesses.  

"I was coming back from the grocery store and then I was getting out of the car," said a neighbor, who did not want to be identified. "All of a sudden, I heard 5 shots. So then I ran in the house and told my boyfriend, 'There's a shooting out here.' We came out walked over there then we seen the cops over there." 

The suspect was pronounced deceased at the scene. The area was closed off by police late into the evening as officers collected evidence and spoke with witnesses.

During a press conference late Monday night, police said the man shot by officers was a second suspect in the homicide that took place last Thursday at the office complex on Lundy Avenue in North San Jose. 38-year-old Christopher Wrenn was found shot to death in a hallway in the office complex.

San Jose Police Sgt. Enrique Garcia said police had information that a male suspect connected to the slaying of Wrenn was planning on killing a female who had information on that case. Authorities were following that suspect who had the female in question in the car with him when he noticed he was being tailed.

According to Garcia, the suspect took off at a high rate of speed and a short pursuit followed. The suspect then lost control of his car and crashed into a home in the area of Kirkhaven Court and ran from the car, leaving the female inside.

Officers pursued the suspect on foot and at some point the suspect reached for his waistband and officers fired, hitting and killing the suspect. Garcia also said he had just left the homicide division and watched video from inside the Lundy complex of the suspects brutally torturing the victim before killing him.

"As of right now, there was no gun located on the suspect... my understanding is our investigators have not gone through the car that he was in or completely searched the area," said Sgt. Enrique Garcia. 

The incident comes after another fatal officer-involved shooting Sunday night that left another suspect in the Lundy Avenue homicide last Thursday dead.

Officers from the San Jose Police Covert Response Unit were closing in on a murder suspect when the officers confronted that suspect and ordered him to the ground. Police said he didn't listen and instead he reached for a handgun.

The two officers opened fire. The suspect died at the scene.

"They're looking at a person that's going to reach for a gun that already has a warrant for murder. So we know this person isn't only capable, he's already committed murder," Garcia told KTVU earlier Monday. "He's willing to take on the police."

Police recovered the suspect's handgun and are investigating if it's the weapon used on Lundy Avenue last Thursday. The two incidents mark the seventh and eighth officer-involved shooting this year in San Jose. That is three more than the city had all last year. Five of the shootings this year ended in deaths.

Tuesday was the first time officers said they were looking for another suspect in the Lundy Avenue Office Complex homicide. 

Additional details on the third suspect have not been released.