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Crime Stories

Gang rivalry fuels surge in killings in San Jose

By Mark Gomez and Sean Webby - Mercury News
December 30, 2007


To the two men who confronted Rigoberto Gonzalez on a dark San Jose street, the question - Norteño or Sureño? - meant life or death.

The 22-year-old's silence was the wrong answer.

So at 11:11 p.m. on Jan. 27, San Jose's first homicide victim of 2007 lay on San Tomas Aquino Parkway with a bullet in his head.

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