Transit employees among 9 dead in shooting at San Jose rail yard – By Andrew Blankstein and Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst and David K. Li and Matthew Mulligan and Emma Thorne (NBC News) / May 26 2021
A public transit employee opened fire on co-workers at a Northern California rail yard Wednesday, killing more than a half-dozen people before taking his own life, authorities said.
Calls of shots fired came about 6:34 a.m. PT near 100 W. Younger Ave. in downtown San Jose, drawing a large law enforcement response, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said.
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The shooter was identified as Samuel Cassidy, an employee of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), law enforcement sources said. He shot and killed himself at the scene, officials said.
At least eight people were killed, not including the shooter, and one person was critically wounded, sheriff’s Deputy Russell Davis said.
The early morning attack came at a particularly busy time at the transit hub as overnight workers overlap with, and pass of their duties to, colleagues checking in for early-morning shifts.
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