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.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday described feeling a sense of "numbness" over the country's latest mass shooting, this one at a San Jose railyard where eight people were killed by a Valley Transportation Authority employee who then took his own life. Newsom at first described how the country in the coming days and weeks will learn about the heroism of deputies who risked their lives to save others during the shooting at the VTA.
Gunman who killed eight co-workers at California transit facility knew victims well, mayor says
A gunman opened fire Wednesday morning at a public transit rail yard in San Jose, California, killing at least eight co-workers and wounding at least one other person, Deputy Russell Davis of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said.
The gunman, an employee of the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), is dead, Davis said. He has been identified as Sam Cassidy, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation confirmed to CNN.
Mayor Sam Liccardo told CNN’s Jake Tapper the gunman was no stranger to the people he shot.
At least eight victims were killed, several others were injured and a suspect was dead in a shooting Wednesday at a San Jose transportation facility in northern California the latest incident in a nation increasingly besieged by mass shootings.
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Confirmation hearings started today for David Chipman, Biden’s controversial pick to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
Chipman now defining an assault rifle as any rifle about .22 caliber that has a detachable magazine. That ain t just the AR-15 folks.
So do you think a mass shooting happening at the same time is pure happenstance?
I have my doubts.
A gunman opened fire at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail facility located on West Younger Ave. early Wednesday in a mass shooting that left several employees dead or wounded, officials and sources said.