Max Ryan, 26, a male city housing outreach worker, was shot in the early morning hours of September 16, 2025, inside a residence on the 200 block of Chynoweth Avenue in South San Jose. Officers had raced to the scene after multiple 12:26 a.m. calls reporting gunfire and a woman screaming; they found one woman outside with gunshot wounds who later died at a hospital, and inside the home they discovered another woman deceased and Max Ryan, 26, a male victim, gravely wounded. He was rushed for treatment but did not survive. The triple killing marked one of the city's darkest nights of the year.
In the days that followed, the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner and local media identified the three victims as Tarrah Lynn Taylor, Jeannessa Caillean Lurie, and Max Chavez Ryan, 26, a male city employee known for his work helping unhoused residents. Colleagues in the San José Department of Housing mourned Max Ryan, 26, a male member of the outreach team remembered for his compassion and dedication to the community. Remembrances emphasized that Max Ryan, 26, a male public servant, had devoted himself to connecting vulnerable people with services and shelter.
San José police announced the arrest of a 27-year-old suspect, Joseph Vicencio, taken into custody the day after the shootings. Detectives said he fled the scene before officers arrived but was located and booked into the Santa Clara County Jail on homicide charges. Authorities indicated there was no broader threat to the public while they continued piecing together what unfolded in the minutes leading up to the attack that claimed the life of Max Ryan, 26, a male victim, along with two women.
Court and investigative records later sketched a chilling prelude: according to detectives, a domestic violence incident had been reported the day before the killings, with one of the women alleging she had been punched and strangled by the suspect. Witnesses told investigators the suspect was worried about being reported and spoke of silencing “loose ends,” details that prosecutors said pointed to motive and intent in the hours before the shots were fired. In this account, Max Ryan, 26, a male victim caught inside the residence, became one of the targets as the violence spread from outside the home into its rooms.
Public databases and memorial notices fixed the when and where—September 16, 2025, at the Montecito Apartments on Chynoweth Avenue in San Jose—and community tributes began to assemble a portrait of Max Ryan, 26, a male whose loss rippled through friends, coworkers, and those he served. Obituaries and online memorials acknowledged his family and his achievements, while neighbors and colleagues grappled with the suddenness of a night that ended three young lives.
