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He scares me : VTA releases personnel report showing mass shooter was subject of 4 investigations
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A photo of the VTA railyard shooting scene.Philip Pacheco / Getty Images
The man who shot and killed nine people in a San Jose rail yard last month was reported by a coworker last year as someone who could “go postal.”
“He scares me,” the unnamed coworker told another employee. “If someone was to go postal, it’d be him.”
That encounter was one of four separate incidents involving Samuel Cassidy that the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority released on Thursday in a 222-page review of his disciplinary history.
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Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) workers gather near a railyard following a shooting on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
SAN JOSE, CA A coworker of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority employee who opened fire in the May 26 mass shooting at a VTA rail yard said last year of the shooter: He scares me. If someone was to go postal, it d be him.
Samuel Cassidy, a 20-year employee of VTA, killed nine coworkers before turning the gun on himself. According to a review of personnel files and documents made public by VTA on Thursday, the 57-year-old Cassidy had four separate incidents throughout his career that were elevated to management and he received disciplinary actions that ranged from a verbal action to a two-day leave without pay.
Caltrain board of directors approves operating and capital budgets, discusses plans to restore service
Caltrain board approves operating and capital budgets.
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Caltrain’s Board of Directors approved its operating and capital budgets for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 at the rail agency’s monthly board meeting.
The $176.7 million operating budget approved by the Board includes $34.6 million in farebox revenues. For the first time in the agency’s history, Caltrain assumes it will receive no contributions from Caltrain’s three partners the San Mateo County Transit District (SamTrans), the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority and the City and County of San Francisco for the operating budget, however, funds from Measure RR and the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) should be sufficient to cover the agency’s operating needs. This will be the first fiscal year in which Caltrain will have a dedicated non-fare revenue source, due to the passage of Measure RR.