SAN JOSE — A longtime South Bay youth and professional soccer coach was arrested, then released, in connection with a fatal shooting at his South San Jose home last week, authorities confirmed.
The shooting was reported June 6 around 10:40 p.m. in the 6500 block of Camden Avenue, according to the San Jose Police Department. Responding officers found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound, and he died at the scene.
The deceased man has been identified by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office as Ronald Morriss, 69, a resident of Templeton, a town in San Luis Obispo County.
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David Gold, 68, was arrested by San Jose police on suspicion of shooting Morriss. But he has since been released from custody “pending further investigation,” a police spokesperson told this news organization. Police have not disclosed the circumstances of the shooting.
The district attorney’s office confirmed that Gold has not been criminally charged in the shooting, similarly affirming that he “was released while further investigation is ongoing.”
Gold did not immediately respond to messages left for him Thursday. His soccer ties to the area go back at least four decades, when he played for a pre-Major League Soccer incarnation of the San Jose Earthquakes in the late-1980s. Since then, he has been a well-known youth soccer coach and has coached high-level amateur teams such as Real San Jose, and also had a stint coaching the San Jose Clash, which would become the modern-day Earthquakes.
The June 6 shooting marked the city’s 11th homicide of the year investigated by San Jose police. San Jose had recorded 17 homicides at the same point in 2024, according to data compiled by this news organization.
Anyone with information for investigators can contact the SJPD homicide unit at 408-277-5283 or email Detective Sgt. Ivan Barragan at [email protected] or Detective Mike Harrington at [email protected]. Tips can also be left with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867 or at siliconvalleycrimestoppers.org.