Police in San Jose are investigating after several plainclothes officers were involved in a shootout involving multiple suspects late Monday night.

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) said detectives are looking for information tied to a freeway shooting on Monday night that left one man dead. CHP said officers assigned to its San Jose division were dispatched at 9:57 p.

San Jose police said undercover officers returned fire at an unknown number of suspects –  who they said shot at them first -- and then fled the scene.

The officers were working on an unrelated case Monday night when multiple people shot at them, police officials said. They returned fire, but no one was injured.

A man who says he was brutally mauled by a San Jose police K-9 is suing the city and the Police Department. Police have said the man was a stabbing suspect who did not come out of his apartment after they warned they'd be sending in a dog.

San Jose police Tuesday morning were investigating an officer-involved shooting late Monday that resulted in no injuries and no arrests. The shooting occurred at about 10:40 p.m. Monday in the area of Melbourne Boulevard and McLaughlin Avenue,

SAN JOSE – A man was killed in a shooting Monday night on Interstate 280 in San Jose, according to authorities. Just before 10 p.m., officers were dispatched to a report of a crash in the center divide north of De Anza Boulevard, the California Highway Patrol said in a news release.

Police said officers were shot by suspects and returned gunshots on Monday, according to the San Jose Police Department. According to the department, plainclothes officers were “working an unrelated event” near Melbourne Boulevard and Mclaughlin Avenue.