Body camera footage shows final moments of San Jose light rail yard shooting
Santa Clara County Sheriff s Office
By Jason Hanna and Alexandra Meeks, CNN
Body-camera footage shows officers tensely closing in on the San Jose workplace shooter and apparently hearing his final gunshots including two self-inflicted shots that authorities say ended his life.
“Hey! … I’ve got somebody down in front of me,” a law enforcement officer says in the video, peering through a door pane into the next room shortly after hearing the final shots May 26 at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority building in San Jose.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday released the video, which shows deputies and police officers hunting for Samuel James Cassidy, who authorities say killed nine of his VTA co-workers in two buildings at a light rail yard before killing himself.
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The footage is from one deputy who arrived minutes after the first shooting reports at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus and rail yard.
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A gunman who killed nine co-workers at a Northern California rail yard shot himself twice in the head as sheriff s deputies raced into a building, according to authorities who on Tuesday released body-camera footage of the tense encounter.
The nearly 4 1/2 minutes of footage is from one deputy who arrived minutes after the first shooting reports and while shots were still being fired at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus and rail yard in San Jose, where 57-year-old Samuel Cassidy opened fire before killing himself.
A contact team of deputies and San Jose police officers was immediately formed to find the gunman, who was reported to be inside a building and armed with a handgun. The body camera footage shows the team cautiously climbing stairs to the third floor, where a VTA supervisor comes out with arms raised and hands over his keycard so officers can get inside the building.