


SAN JOSE >> A woman was arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting her boyfriend during a fight and struggle over a gun in their apartment near downtown San Jose, according to authorities and a source familiar with the investigation.
Officers were called at 3:08 a.m. Monday to a residence in the 400 block of South 10th Street — across from the southeast corner of San Jose State University — after getting a call about a shooting there, according to San Jose police.
The caller was a woman reporting that her boyfriend had been shot. Responding officers foundher at their apartment, suffering from a graze wound from a bullet. Police also found a man dead from at least one gunshot wound.
The man’s name was not publicly released pending his formal identification and notification of his next of kin by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office.
An ensuing investigation led to the woman, 41-year-old San Jose resident Jessica Nicole Garrison, being “identified as the primary suspect responsible for this homicide,” police wrote in a news release. No further details were provided.
A source familiar with the investigation confirmed to the Bay Area News Group that Garrison and the man had been in a fight that turned into a struggle over a gun, leading to the shots being fired.
Garrison was arrested and booked into the Elmwood women’s jail on suspicion of murder, and was being held without bail. She has a tentative arraignment scheduled for Wednesday, according to jail records.
The shooting marked the city’s 10th homicide of the year. San Jose had recorded 16 homicides by the same point in 2021.
Anyone with information about Monday’s shooting can contact SJPD Detective Sgt. Isidro Bagon or Detective Sean Ancelet at 408-277-5283 or by email at 3589@sanjoseca.gov for Bagon and 4173@sanjoseca.gov for Ancelet. Tips can also be submitted to Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867 or at svcrimestoppers.org.