Font ResizePolice today are investigating the stabbing death of a high school sophomore who was found by family members outside him home in South San Jose.
It is the 25th homicide in the city this year.
At 8:36 p.m. Tuesday, San Jose police received a 911 call that someone had been stabbed outside a home in the 5600 block of Comanche Drive, located near Blossom Hill Road and Highway 85, according to officer Jermaine Thomas.
Police, firefighters and paramedics went to the house and located the teen, who was pronounced dead at the scene, Thomas said.
Sources identified the victim as Michael Russell, 15, a sophomore at Santa Teresa High School.
There is no suspect information at this time, Thomas said. The stabbing death does not appear to be gang-related, according to police.
As police continued their investigation, neighbors and friends of the teen gathered on nearby sidewalks and expressed grief and shock over the slaying.
Terri Galindo, whose teenage daughter attends Santa Teresa High, expressed concern for the boy's family.
"It's sad somebody lost a life like that. A parent lost a child. It saddens me," Galindo said.
Thomas told ABC7-News that investigators are trying to determine whether the stabbing is gang-related, though he said they don't have any indication right now that it was.
Robert Dette, who lives next door to where the attack occurred, said the family had lived in the house only a few months.
Dette said the first sign of trouble he or his wife heard Tuesday night happened after the attack. Dette's wife heard people in their neighbor's backyard talking about CPR. They went to their front yard and saw the boy's mother, who was in a panic and told Dette that her son had been stabbed.
The stabbing death occurred on the same night that community members gathered in East San Jose to discuss the Halloween night, gang-related attack that left a 12-year-old boy in grave condition. A 13-year-old boy was also seriously injured in that attack.
Contact Mark Gomez at 408-920-5869.
