Jury reaches manslaughter verdict in 2022 fatal assault on elderly South San Jose man

SAN JOSE — A jury has found a man guilty of voluntary manslaughter for killing an elderly stranger two years ago in a blindside assault spurred by the victim shining a flashlight at him during a chance encounter on a quiet South San Jose street.

There was no dispute that 35-year-old Amiel Joey Mirador killed 81-year-old Allen Dournaee with a brief flurry of punches from behind — two of them after Dournaee was already unconscious after falling face-down onto a sidewalk.

But a two-week...