SAN JOSE — A man was detained in Idaho and has been brought back to the Bay Area in connection with a fatal November shooting at a ranch home on the southern edges of San Jose, police said.
The shooting was reported around 7:30 a.m. Nov. 18 at a residence in the 10000 block of Dougherty Avenue, south of Palm Avenue. While homes there are closer to the unincorporated town of Coyote and have Morgan Hill addresses, San Jose’s boundaries are precisely drawn to include portions of Monterey Highway that give the city jurisdiction over the Coyote Creek Golf Course as well as access to the Anderson Reservoir.
Responding San Jose police officers found a man suffering from gunshot injuries; he was pronounced dead at the scene. He was later identified by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office as Telesforo Rafael Partida Soberano, a 33-year-old Morgan Hill resident.
Police said an ensuing investigation formally identified 48-year-old San Jose resident Humberto Correa-Velasquez as a suspect in the homicide. Detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Correa-Velasquez and he was arrested Dec. 29 in Caldwell, Idaho — about 30 miles west of Boise — by the U.S. Marshals’ Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force.
San Jose detectives continued their investigation, along with Caldwell police, in the following days, and Correa-Velasquez was extradited to San Jose on Friday. He was booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail and was being held without bail.
Other than confirming that the Correa-Velasquez and Partida Soberano knew each other, authorities have not detailed the relationship between the two men.
The Nov. 18 shooting marked the city’s 34th homicide of 2022 and was the second homicide investigated by San Jose police that day. A shooting that afternoon on River Oaks Parkway in North San Jose, which ended in the death of 54-year-old Armando Baltazar Gonzalez, was the city’s 35th and final homicide of the year.
Anyone with information about the shooting can contact the SJPD homicide Detective Sgt. Rafael Varela at 3638@sanjoseca.gov or Detective Jose Montoya at 3644@sanjoseca.gov, or call 408-277-5283. Tips can also be left with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867 or at svcrimestoppers.org.
