Mercury News: San Jose police officer cleared of criminal wrongdoing in March 2023 shooting, his fourth in as many years

A San Jose police sniper was justified in killing a machete-wielding man who broke into a house last year and threatened to cut the heads off a mother and her two children, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.

Officer Edward Carboni “made a reasonable tactical decision” when he fired seven shots through a bedroom window at Eliobert Gonzalez, 35, during the man’s “erratic and violent” tear through the family’s home in March 2023. Gonzalez, 35, was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

The shooting marks the fourth time in as many years that Carboni has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing after fatally shooting someone while on duty. Two of the previous shootings happened in 2019, while the third came in 2022.