San Jose triple homicide: Court documents detail what led to Joseph Vicencio allegedly killing girlfriend and friends
Three days after a triple homicide rocked the City of San Jose, the suspected shooter appeared in court for the first time.
Joseph Charles Vicencio, 27, is accused of shooting and killing his girlfriend, 26-year-old Tarrah Taylor, her roommate, 24-year-old Jeannessa Lurie, and Lurie's boyfriend, 26-year-old Max Ryan, early Tuesday morning on Chynoweth Avenue.
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District Attorney Jeff Rosen has charged Vicencio with murder, domestic violence and being a felon in possession of a gun.
"In this horrible and terrible case, the DA's office will do everything in its power to make sure there is justice," Rosen said. "To make sure that this defendant is locked up for the rest of his life, so that he cannot hurt anyone else in our community."
Court documents paint a clearer picture of what police say happened leading up to the shooting.
Records indicate Taylor was the victim of domestic violence at the townhouse on Chynoweth Avenue, where she lived with Lurie and Vicencio, in the two days before the homicide.
Taylor told officers Vicencio struck her and choked her. She received a temporary restraining order after the incident, but told police she did not want to stay anywhere else but her own home.
Witnesses then told police that Vicencio told them he might be in trouble due to the domestic violence investigation and allegedly said he couldn't have any "loose ends."
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Max Ryan's colleague at the San Jose housing department called the shooting unimaginable.
"There's no way to make sense of someone in their twenties being at work on Monday and then being dead on Tuesday," Sarah Fields said. "We can't rationalize something like this and it shouldn't have happened."
Rosen says video footage from the area showed Vicencio going to the residence around the time of the shooting with a distinctive satchel and leaving without the satchel.
A witness told police Vicencio was known to carry a gun in that bag. Police say they later recovered the bag and the weapon.
Past court records indicate Vicencio had been served with a gun violence restraining order in 2019 after attempted murder charges from shooting into the SJSU library and a parking garage in Downtown San Jose.
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Family and friends of the victims declined to speak with us after court.
Vicencio will be back for his plea hearing Oct. 24.
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