SJPD sniper lawfully killed a man who threatened hostages with a machete.
A sniper with the San Jose Police Department who rescued a “terrified” mother and her two sons while they were held hostage acted within the law when he fatally shot Eliobert Gonzalez last year, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.
The District Attorney’s Office said it determined that SJPD’s sniper “lawfully shot and killed a man who had broken into an apartment and was threatening to chop off the heads of a woman and her two children with a machete.” The mother and her sons — ages 7 and 18 — survived. The sniper, identified as SJPD Officer Edward Carboni, saved the three victims’ lives by shooting Gonzalez.