By Khalida Sarwari
A year and a half after Hideki Hirakawa was found murdered in a vacant Victorian church, San Jose police investigators are reaching out to the public to help solve the 45-year-old homeless man’s death.
Hirakawa’s body was found on Feb. 5, 2010, in an abandoned century-old church at 217 Delmas Ave., police said.
Hirakawa was known to frequent the INN Vision homeless housing at 358 N. Montgomery St. and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in downtown San Jose, according to police.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Detective Sgt. Merlin Newton or Detective Juan Vallejo at (408) 277-5283. To remain anonymous, call the Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at (408) 947-STOP (7867) or visit http://svcrimestoppers.org/.
Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect or suspects.