The minutes-long attack was marked by both horror and heroism. Singh, the father of a 3-year-old son and a 1-year-old daughter, was on an early shift as a light rail operator when the shooting began.
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Family members of shooting victim Timothy Romo embrace during a vigil at City Hall in San Jose, Californnia. He called another transit employee to warn him, saying he needed to get out or hide. “From what I’ve heard, he spent the last moments of his life making sure that others – in the building and elsewhere – would be able to stay safe,” co-worker Sukhvir Singh, who is not related to Taptejdeep Singh, said in a statement.
NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned that the gunman who shot and killed nine VTA co-workers before committing suicide Wednesday was under investigation for allegedly making racist remarks to coworkers and was scheduled to attend a disciplinary hearing on the day of the attack.
The gunman who killed nine people at a California transit agency facility this week may have impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, local therapists claim, according to a report.
San Jose mass shooter faced disciplinary hearing on the day of the massacre for making racist remarks to coworkers as new footage shows him walking across rail lines just minutes into massacre that killed nine
Samuel Cassidy was due at a disciplinary hearing over racist comments on the day of the mass shooting on San Jose Wednesday
Surveillance video showed Cassidy, 57, walking from one shooting site to another at the Valley Transportation Authority minutes into the massacre
Cassidy was held by U.S. Customs officers returning from the Philippines in 2016, according to report
A memo says Cassidy possessed books about terrorism and fear and manifestos… as well as a black memo book filled with lots of notes about how he hates the Valley Transportation Authority where he worked