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San Jose Police Surround Apartment Building After Gunshot Reported

SAN JOSE (CBS SF) – San Jose police have surrounded an apartment building this morning where they heard what they believe to be a single gunshot, a police spokesman said.

Officers responded at 8:23 a.m. to an apartment building on MacIntyre Drive, a short road off Azores Street near state Highway 87, to conduct a welfare check on a resident there, police spokesman Officer Albert Morales said.

When they arrived, they heard what sounded like a single gunshot.  Officers surrounded the area and called in a SWAT team to attempt to make contact with the person inside, Morales said.

As of shortly after 10:30 a.m., officers remained there trying to make contact. Streets are shut down in the area.

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