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May 27, 2021 | 5:22 AM
Police secure the scene of a mass shooting at a rail yard run by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in San Jose, California, U.S. May 26, 2021. REUTERS/Peter DaSilva
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) – A California transit employee killed nine co-workers before taking his own life on Wednesday, the latest in a spate of deadly U.S. mass shootings, prompting the state’s governor to ask: “What the hell is wrong with us?”
Authorities did not immediately offer many details or a possible motive for the shooting, which unfolded at about 6:30 a.m. Pacific Time at a light-rail yard for commuter trains of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), in the heart of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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27 May 2021
The U.S. Catholic bishops have made an appeal for further gun control in the wake of fatal shootings Wednesday in San Jose, California.
The chairman of the Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, said in a statement that the shooting “reminds us once again that something fundamentally broken in our society and culture must be courageously examined and addressed, so that ordinary places no longer become scenes of violence and contempt for human life.”
The shootings took place at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) rail yard in San Jose, California, with reports of at least nine fatalities, including the gunman, who was identified as VTA maintenance worker Samuel Cassidy.
A California transit employee killed eight co-workers and wounded another before taking his own life, the latest in a spate of deadly US mass shootings.
Santa Clara VTA light-rail service was suspended systemwide as of noon Wednesday after a mass shooting at the agency’s rail maintenance yard in San Jose.