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SAN JOSE, Calif. The suspect in a mass shooting that killed nine at a San Jose, California, light rail yard was found dead with two semiautomatic handguns and 11 magazines with ammunition nearby, officials said Thursday.
The guns are believed to be legally purchased and didn t appear to be modified, Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said Thursday.
Everyone who was shot Wednesday morning died.
Authorities do not have a motive for why Samuel Cassidy, a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority employee, allegedly gunned down nine men at the VTA light rail yard. The suspect died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Emergency personnel responded to reports of a shooting at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority facility on Wednesday. The gunman killed nine people and took his own life. Noah Berger/AP
A transit worker opened fire early Wednesday morning at a light-rail facility in downtown San Jose, Calif., fatally shooting nine people and taking his own life. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo told NPR s
Morning Edition that the gunman set fire to his own home before the shooting.
Many employees were already working at the facility when the shooting started at around 6:30 a.m., Liccardo said. The mayor spoke with the brother of one of the victims, who said he had been on the phone with his brother when the shooting took place.
Law enforcement officers respond to a mass shooting at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority facility on Wednesday in San Jose, Calif. Santa Clara County sheriff s spokesman said the rail yard shooting left multiple people, including the shooter, dead.
Workplace mass shootings are rare, but the killing of eight people by a fellow employee at a Northern California rail yard on Wednesday marks the third such rampage in under two months.
That could foreshadow a rise in this type of violence after the nationwide shutdown of businesses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, says Jaclyn Schildkraut, associate professor of criminal justice at the State University of New York at Oswego.
An employee carrying multiple guns opened fire in a mass shooting at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail facility in San Jose Wednesday morning, killing nine victims and injuring several others. The incident was connected to a separate house fire in the city at around the same time of the shooting, according to officials.
Caltrain will provide free train rides Thursday evening to and from San Jose City Hall, where a vigil will be held honoring the victims of the fatal shooting at.