On Feb. 16, 2024, San Jose police arrested Nikolias Ramos, 19, in connection with a fatal stabbing on Jan. 28, 2024. (San Jose Police Dept. )
SAN JOSE, Calif. - San Jose police on Tuesday announced the arrest of a 19-year-old suspected in a fatal stabbing last month.
On Jan. 28, officers received a report that someone had been stabbed in the 1500 block of Almaden Expressway. That’s where they found a man suffering from at least one stab wound.
The victim was rushed to a hospital where he later died.
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Police said homicide detectives launched a thorough investigation which led them to identify San Jose resident Nikolias Ramos as the suspect.
They obtained a warrant for his arrest, and on Feb. 16, undercover detectives from the police department’s Covert Response Unit (CRU) located Ramos and arrested him on a homicide charge.
He was booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail.
Police said they were not revealing the victim's identity at this point and did not say what a motive for the killing may have been.
The fatal stabbing marked the city’s fourth homicide of the year.
There have been a total of eight homicides so far this year in San Jose. Police said detectives have made arrests in all but one of those cases.