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Juan Guerra, 21, one of three suspects allegedly involved the April 3 double shooting that killed Gilroyan Jesse Emmanuel Silos, 30, and left another 37-year-old victim seriously injured, was arrested at 6:30 p.m. Friday in San Jose on homicide and attempted homicide charges according to a press release sent Saturday from the Gilroy Police Department.

A high-speed vehicle chase in north Morgan Hill resulted in the arrest of three suspects from San Jose on suspicion of vehicle theft and other charges, according to police.The evening of March 19, a Morgan Hill police officer attempted to make a traffic stop for an alleged vehicle code violation in the area of Monterey Road and Peebles Avenue, according to a post on the MHPD Facebook page. The driver of the vehicle failed to yield and led the officer on a short pursuit.Other units responded and a “high-risk felony stop” was conducted, according to police. Assisting officers included the city’s K-9 unit, which was on scene to “encourage compliance from the suspects,” police said. All three occupants of the vehicle were arrested without further incident.The vehicle was reported stolen out of San Jose earlier in the day, police said. The three occupants told MHPD officers they had been driving around Santa Clara and San Benito counties throughout the day.Arrested were driver Arturo Urena, 26, Julio Mata, 23, and Teresa Garfias, 21, according to police. Urena and Mata were on probation for vehicle theft, and Garfias was booked on suspicion of vehicle theft.