Crime & Safety
Gilroy Homicide Suspect Dies At Hospital
The man was arrested on suspicion of a homicide in Gilroy in August 2020. A cause of death was not immediate released.
GILROY, CA — A 50-year-old man arrested last year on suspicion of a homicide in Gilroy has died after being admitted to a hospital from Santa Clara County Jail last month, county sheriff's officials announced Wednesday.
The Sheriff's Office said the man had been arrested on suspicion of a homicide in Gilroy in August 2020. He had been sent from the county jail to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center on Nov. 9 after a medical assessment and died on Monday night at the hospital.
A cause of death was not immediately released and his death will be jointly investigated by the county Sheriff's Office, District Attorney's Office and Medical Examiner's Office, as is standard protocol for in-custody deaths.
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Authorities did not release the inmate's name, but the only homicide arrest announced in August 2020 by Gilroy police was that of Izaak Bermea.
Officers had responded around 6 a.m. on Aug. 17, 2020, to the 7700 block of Murray Avenue on a report of a female screaming for help and arrived to find a woman severely beaten inside a home. She was taken to a hospital and succumbed to her injuries there, police said. She has been identified by the Medical Examiner's office as Andrea Espinoza, 47, of Gilroy.
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Bermea had fled in Espinoza's vehicle but was found the next day in Merced and was transported back to Gilroy and was later booked into county jail.
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