By Dan Whitcomb and Peter Szekely
May 27 (Reuters) - A transit employee who gunned down nine co-workers and killed himself at a Northern California rail yard was highly disgruntled long before carrying out the latest U.S. shooting rampage, the county sheriff said on Thursday.
Local authorities have declined to speculate on a precise motive for Wednesday s gun violence in San Jose, California, saying their work at the scene could take days, assisted by the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Sheriff Laurie Smith said in a written statement that the gunman s feelings about his workplace at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (TVA) may have contributed to why he targeted his co-workers.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Taptejdeep Singh died trying to save others from a gunman. Kirk Bertolet saw some of his coworkers take their last breaths.And friends, family and survivors were left
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The gunman appears to have left no note, no explanation for why he walked into a San Jose rail yard Wednesday morning and shot nine coworkers, but investigators have found a common theme in his past: He hated his workplace. “Based on recent developments in the investigation, we can say that the suspect has been a highly disgruntled VTA employee for many years,” said the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. It’s still unclear whether Samuel James.