SAN JOSE — The death of a man found on the grounds of Valley Medical Center on Christmas morning is being investigated by detectives but how he died was not immediately clear, the Santa Clara County sheriff’s office said Tuesday.
Deputies were called to the hospital property at 751 S. Bascom Avenue around 9:30 a.m. Sunday for a report of “an unresponsive male lying on the ground outside” of the hospital facility, according to a sheriff’s office news release.
The man was pronounced dead where authorities found him, and the county Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office is conducting a death investigation. His name has not been publicly released.
While the cause