San Jose Police Officer. A graduate of San Jose State University, Fontana worked at the same time for five years as a part time accountant for the San Francisco 49er's football team while also serving as a volunteer at the Oakridge Community Police Center. In January 2001, he joined the San Jose Police Department. In October of that year, Officer Fontana completed a 16-week training program that allowed him to start patrolling on his own. On the morning of October 28, 2001, after only about a week of patrolling solo, Officer Fontana was shot and killed in the line of duty after stopping an armed suspect in the Almaden Valley neighborhood of San Jose.∼San Jose Police Department
On October 28, 2001, Officer Fontana was assigned to the midnight shift (71A4) in the Southern Division. At 0200 hours, Officer Fontana and other officers responded to a call of a disturbance involving a fight and weapons on Rotterdam Lane. Two of the subjects that fled the disturbance were identified as Deshawn Campbell and Rodney McNary. At 0415 hours, Officer Fontana and a teammate decided to report write and as they traveled eastbound on Blossom Hill Road, his teammate noticed that Officer Fontana was no longer behind him. Officer Fontana had followed a vehicle into a residential neighborhood which pulled into the driveway of a residence at a dead-end street. Officer Fontana pulled in behind the vehicle and approached on foot. The driver of the vehicle fired a single shot from a handgun fatally striking Officer Fontana. The suspect then fled the scene on foot.

A 9-1-1 call was then received reporting that an officer was down. Officer Fontana was the first unit assigned by communications to respond to the call. After he did not respond to the radio, responding units found him lying next to his patrol vehicle. Officer Fontana was pronounced at the scene.

Officer Fontana was the eleventh San Jose Police Officer killed in the line of duty.