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Police Identify Suspect Trying to Flee Country After Fatal Shooting in San Jose

San Jose Police Department

The San Jose Police Department announced they identified the suspect in the fatal shooting of a woman gunned down in front of her salon in San Jose. 

Jose Rosas was arrested on Sept. 2 in San Ysidro near the Mexican border hours after he shot a man and a woman at a strip mall on the 1100 block of East William Street.

A suspect wanted in connection to a deadly San Jose shooting was arrested Friday morning while trying to flee the country, officials said. Damian Trujillo reports.

Upon the arrest, Rosas was transported back to San Jose and booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail for homicide.

The woman, Susy Hernandez, was Rosas' ex-partner. She had a restraining order against him.

Community members held a candlelight memorial for Hernandez after she was killed and remember her as a hard working woman.

A candlelight memorial was held Friday night in honor of a woman gunned down in front of her salon in San Jose. The shooting happened Thursday night at a strip mall near south 24th Street and east William Street. The man who shot her is an ex-boyfriend who she filed a restraining order against. Police have not named the shooter, but he was arrested trying to flee the country.
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