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Frontier Village was a 39-acre (16 ha) amusement park in San Jose, California, that operated from 1961 to September 1980. It was located at 4885 Monterey Road, at the intersection with Branham Lane. The site is now Edenvale Garden Park, next to Hayes Mansion, and was once part of the sprawling Hayes Family Estate. [1] : 9–10.
The San Jose crime family, also known as the Cerrito crime family or the San Jose Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in San Jose, California.The San Jose family was one of the two families that controlled organized crime in San Jose, within the nationwide criminal organization known as the American Mafia (or "La Cosa Nostra"); the other family that ran organized crime in ...
e. The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, that was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester. The house became a tourist attraction nine months after Winchester's death in 1922. The Victorian and Gothic-style mansion is renowned for its size and its ...
Metcalf sniper attack. On April 16, 2013, an attack was carried out on Pacific Gas and Electric Company 's Metcalf transmission substation in Coyote, California, near the border of San Jose. The attack, in which gunmen fired on 17 electrical transformers, resulted in more than $15 million worth of equipment damage, but it had little impact on ...
2. Struggling actor murdered soldier to steal his combat pay and then murdered a friend of the soldier to make it appear the soldier killed her and then disappeared. [40] [41] 31. 2011 Seal Beach shooting. Seal Beach. 2011-10-12. 8. Mass shooting at a hair salon, deadliest mass shooting in Orange County history.
On May 26, 2021, a mass shooting occurred at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) rail yard in San Jose, California, United States. A 57-year-old VTA employee, Samuel James Cassidy, shot and killed nine VTA employees before committing suicide. [1] [4] It is the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the San Francisco Bay Area.
July 22, 2022 at 10:00 AM. Andy Alfaro/aalfaro@modbee.com. The San Jose man killed in a double homicide along with a Modesto woman has been identified by the Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office ...
Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting. / 36.99778°N 121.58528°W / 36.99778; -121.58528. On July 28, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. The gunman killed three people and wounded 17 others before killing himself after a shootout with responding police officers. [4] [5]