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SAN JOSE — Residents of a quiet Willow Glen neighborhood are shaken by the deaths of three people in two bursts of gunfire. 

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Thursday morning, Laura Ville Lane, a short private street lined with custom homes on one side, was cordoned off by yellow police tape. 

Kim Vostermans lives around the corner of Laura Villa Lane and passed by the street on Thursday morning while walking her dog. 

Vostermans said she was in downtown San Jose Wednesday night with friends when the situation first unfolded. 

By the time she got home, Lincoln Avenue was flooded with police, and neighbors were out of their homes trying to determine what was going on. 

Vostermans said she could hear police say ” ‘come out with your hands up.’  They kept repeating that.  They were yelling over the bullhorn.” 

At some point Vostermans went inside to check on her kids, and she heard “a couple of pops. 

‘We didn’t know at that point if he was still shooting,” Vostermans said. “ It was pretty scary.” 

Vostermans said neighbors have been trying to figure out who lived in the house where the shooting occurred.  Neighbors believe a child escaped harm. 

“We’re all worried about what’s going on with the family and if we can do anything to help,” Vostermans said. 

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Bay Area homicides 2017: Map and details Officers initially responded to a report of shots fired on the 1000 block of Laura Ville Lane at about 9 p.m. A dramatic standoff with the suspect ensued, with police calling in the SWAT team and closing Lincoln Avenue between Nevada Avenue and Willow Glen Way. 

Suzanne Robinson, who lives nearby, said she saw four people running from the scene during the standoff. 

“It looked like three police officers and a kid,” she said. 

At one point, an officer opened fire and three bodies, including the suspect’s, were found inside the home, according to police. 

Per protocol, the officer will be placed on routine paid administrative leave.  The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office and homicide detectives are conducing a joint criminal investigation.  The case is being monitored by the San Jose Police Department’s Internal Affairs Unit, the City Attorney’s Office and the Independent Police Auditor. 

Additional details about the case, including the suspect’s connection to the victims, were not immediately available early Thursday morning. 

Robinson said the shooting surprised her and would likely bring an end to the walks she often takes at night in the quiet upscale neighborhood. 

“I’m not going to do it anymore,” she said. 

The two victims believed to have been shot by the suspect represent the ninth and 10th homicides of the year in San Jose.  At the same point last year, the city had recorded 17 homicides. 

The officer-involved shooting is the second in as many days and the fourth this year in San Jose. 

Late Tuesday night, a 15-year veteran of the force fatally shot a man who reportedly charged at him with a pair of knives in the Mount Pleasant area, said San Jose police Chief Eddie Garcia. 

“It’s a tragedy for the suspect’s family, and it’s a tragedy for the officers involved,” he said about Tuesday’s case. 

Anyone with information about Wednesday’s case can contact Detective Sgt.  Raul Martinez or Detective Brian Meeker of the San Jose Police Department’s Homicide Unit at 408-277-5283.