Live Updates: San Jose Gunman Wrote About Hating His Workplace
The gunman targeted his co-workers at a transit agency, killing nine of them, the Santa Clara County sheriff said. Border officials had discovered his manifestoes in 2016.
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“We get up every morning safe in the belief that when we go to work, we will come home to our family and our loved ones,” said Evelynn Tran, acting general manager of the Valley Transportation Authority, site of a workplace shooting on Wednesday. “That did not happen.”Credit.Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
No words to describe the heartache : 9th victim dies in deadly shooting rampage at San Jose, California, rail yard John Bacon, Jorge L. Ortiz and Grace Hauck, USA TODAY
At least 9 killed after gunman opens fire at San Jose light rail yard
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Mayor Sam Liccardo said Thursday a ninth person had died. Now, all we can do is what we must: support our families and coworkers in pain, and assist their journey to healing, Liccardo tweeted.
The gunman, an employee at the sprawling Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) light rail hub, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and other employees were among the victims, police spokesman Russell Davis said Wednesday.
But mass shootings aren’t as common as many Americans might think.
“When we look at the rate, mass violence is only 2% of the homicides that occur across the United States,” said Mooreland.
And workplaces are not a statistically significant location for mass shootings, Mooreland said. She said that although at least two of the mass shootings over the last two months have been workplace-focused, looking at the overall data, “that’s not significantly different or an increase that they are happening at a workplace.”
Stress can impact one’s trauma response
But increased stress can increase a person’s trauma response, said Mooreland.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) - A California transit employee killed nine co-workers before taking his own life on Wednesday, the latest in a spate of deadly U.S. mass shootings, prompting the state’s governor to ask: “What the hell is wrong with us?”
Authorities did not immediately offer many details or a possible motive for the shooting, which unfolded at about 6:30 a.m. Pacific Time (1330 GMT) at a light-rail yard for commuter trains of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), in the heart of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area.
A bomb squad was searching the yard and adjacent buildings after at least one explosive device was found, Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Deputy Russell Davis said at a news conference.