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SAN JOSE, Calif. - More than 15 years before Wednesday s mass shooting at the VTA light rail yard in San Jose, the man identified by police as the shooter Sam Cassidy, 57, had expressed anger and a desire to harm his colleagues according to his ex-wife. His ex-wife.(said) that Cassidy had a bad temper and would tell her that he wanted to kill people at work, Cecilia Nelms told the Associated Press on Wednesday. Nelms said they divorced in 2009 after being married for 10 years. She said Cassidy had been treated for depression and she had felt scared at times when he lost his temper.
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After San Jose Mass Shooting, California Governor Renews Call for Gun Control
A woman leaves the scene where a man killed nine people at a light rail yard in San Jose this week. California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom lambasted the “sameness and numbness” of America’s mass shootings.
Noah Berger
The Associated Press
California Gov. Gavin Newsom made an impassioned plea for national action on gun control after a shooter killed nine people in a San Jose light rail yard this week the deadliest mass shooting in the state this year.
The Democrat, who leads a state with some of the strictest gun laws in the country, was exasperated when speaking with reporters after the shooting at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority facility. Newsom called on public officials to move beyond platitudes and take responsibility for the epidemic of gun violence in the nation.
Organizations dedicated to defending the Second Amendment rights of Americans are sounding the alarm as President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, David Chipman,
A Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority employee shot and killed eight people at a VTA maintenance yard in San Jose on Wednesday morning and also died there, authorities said.
Updated: Thu, May 27, 2021, 3:42 pm
A Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority employee shot and killed nine people at a VTA maintenance yard in San Jose on Wednesday morning and also died there, authorities said.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff s Office first received reports of the shooting at 6:34 a.m. and dispatched deputies to the rail yard, which is adjacent to the sheriff s office s headquarters.
The county medical examiner-coroner s office identified the nine people killed in the mass shooting as Adrian Balleza, 29; Jose Dejesus Hernandez III, 35; Taptejdeep Singh, 36; Michael Joseph Rudometkin, 40; Paul Delacruz Megia, 42; Alex Ward Fritch, 49; Timothy Michael Romo, 49; Abdolvahab Alaghmandan, 63; and Lars Kepler Lane, 63. The coroner s office notified all next of kin before their names were released to the public.