San Jose: Police union names officers injured in Thursday shooting

SAN JOSE — The San Jose Police Officers’ Association released the names of the two officers who were shot while responding to a domestic violence call at a South San Jose hotel on Thursday evening.

In an email to their members, the union said Officer Jamie Arredondo on Friday underwent a second surgery without complication. Arredondo, who just finished his first year with the police department, had the first surgery on Thursday night and was listed in stable condition.

“His recovery continues,” the union wrote in the email.

The police union identified the other officer as Joseph Desroches, who has 3½ years with SJPD. He was released after treatment at a hospital for an apparent graze wound.

The two officers were responding to a call from a woman concerned that a man she had a restraining order against was headed to the Extended Stay America on San Ignacio Avenue, where she was staying with her three children.

But the man — later identified as 33-year-old Kevin Briones — was not there when police officers arrived, and they left. Around 10:30 p.m., Briones reportedly showed up, and the woman called the hotel front desk to report a disturbance, which was relayed to police dispatchers.

Desroches and Arredondo encountered Briones in a hallway of the hotel and ordered him to stay where he was, police said. Briones allegedly reached into a duffel bag he was carrying. When officers told him to stop, he responded by pulling out a 9mm pistol and shooting at the officers, hitting them both, San Jose Police Chief Paul Joseph said Friday.

The officers returned fire and hit Briones, who ran down the hallway and jumped through a third-story window. He then crawled to a Residence Inn hotel next door, where officers found him, police said. Briones was arrested and hospitalized.

Arredondo was hit multiple times, according to authorities. Desroches pulled him to safety and applied a tourniquet before realizing he had been hit, too, the police chief said.

San Jose police officers have not been shot in the line of duty since Aug. 16, when a female officer who was responding to a domestic disturbance at an apartment complex in the Sunol-Midtown area was ambushed by a man involved in the incident and shot in the abdomen below her protective vest. The alleged gunman was later charged with attempted murder of a peace officer.