By Robert Salonga | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: June 30, 2018 at 1:52 pm | UPDATED: June 30, 2018 at 3:01 pm SAN JOSE — A man running from officers trying to stop him for a report of a gun was hit and killed by a passing SUV near The Plant shopping center early Saturday, according to San Jose police. The driver of the SUV that hit the man left, and is now being treated as a hit-and-run suspect, police said. San Jose police were called around 1:55 a.m. to the popular shopping center on Monterey Road after getting a call describing a man carrying a gun inside a vehicle in the parking lot. Officers spotted the vehicle described by the caller, and as they approached, a passenger got out of the car and ran off, Sgt. Enrique Garcia said. The man ran east across Monterey Road and lost his footing on the center median, and fell down in the far left northbound lane. Soon after, police said, an SUV hit and killed the man, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The SUV continued traveling and has not been located. The man who was hit was… Read full this story
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