{"id":8718127,"date":"2023-01-17T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/?p=8718127&preview=true&preview_id=8718127"},"modified":"2023-01-17T13:00:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T21:00:58","slug":"san-jose-mans-death-after-being-hit-by-car-investigated-as-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2023\/01\/17\/san-jose-mans-death-after-being-hit-by-car-investigated-as-homicide\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose: Man\u2019s death after being hit by car investigated as homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE — Police announced they have launched their second homicide investigation of 2023 after a man died this past weekend from injuries he suffered when another man hit him with his car during an altercation at the turn of the new year.<\/p>\n

Officers were called at 2:48 a.m. Jan. 1 to an apartment complex near North Jackson Avenue south of Alexian Drive for a report of an assault. They arrived to find a man suffering from serious injuries consistent with being hit by a vehicle, according to San Jose police.<\/p>\n

The injured man was rushed to a local hospital, and police said he was initially expected to survive, but he died Sunday. He was identified by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office as 52-year-old Ernest Pino Valenzuela.<\/p>\n

An assault investigation started shortly after the Jan. 1 police call determined that the now-deceased man was in an altercation with another man at an apartment complex, and that at some point the second man used his vehicle as a weapon.<\/p>\n