At least eight people were killed when a transit employee opened fire at his co-workers at a light rail yard in San Jose, California, on Wednesday morning, the county sheriff s office said, in the latest in a string of mass shootings this spring.\n\n
Police have identified railway technician Samuel James Cassidy, 57, as the suspect in a San Jose, California, mass shooting that left 9 people dead, including the gunman, at a light rail facility on Wednesday morning. Multiple local media outlets, including KTVU, the San Jose Mercury News, and a local NBC affiliate have reported the identify of the suspect, citing law enforcement sources. Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputy Cian Jackson told The.
Wednesday’s bloodshed at a California rail yard was the 232nd mass shooting recorded in America in the first five months of this year, a sign that the country’s gun violence crisis is increasingly out of control.
A gunman shot dead eight people at a light rail yard in Santa Clara. The suspect worked at the scene, investigators did not immediately comment on a possible motive.