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More than a thousand people attended a vigil in San Jose last night. They were there to honor the nine people killed in a mass shooting this week at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority rail yard. From member station KQED, Julie Chang has more.
JULIE CHANG, BYLINE: Throughout the vigil, one message stayed constant.
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SAM LICCARDO: We will heal, and we ll heal together.
CHANG: That was San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, who, along with transit union officials and community and faith leaders, addressed the tragedy that rattled the city.
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In an email to the Mercury News on Friday, Ann Cassidy, sister of the VTA yard shooter Samuel Cassidy, 57, said that something must have happened at work on the day prior to the shooting to set the gunman off.
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“I imagined he spent all night Tuesday pacing and ruminating and making his plans. That he didn’t feel he could call me that night is by far the worst part,” Ann Cassidy told the newspaper.
Ann Cassidy added that in recent months, her brother felt lost to her.
Grieving from recent gun violence, community members in San Francisco write kind messages in chalk
KTVU s Emma Goss reports.
SAN FRANCISCO - Right in the middle of a gorgeous Sunday afternoon in San Francisco s Hayes Valley, a dark square chalkboard showed up. When tragedy happens, especially to the families involved, Iike it seems like everything changes for them but the world kind of moves on, Jonathan Stogdill, one of four volunteers partnering with the nonprofit Social Expressions, that helped bring the chalkboard to the park, said. So this is just a small part that we can play to remind them that we re. we also have a heart for them, and for what s going on, and we are not going to forget what has happened.