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.
Police said the suspect died Wednesday at the Valley Transportation Authority light railyard where the shooting happened. No identities have been released.