Diagrams show mayhem during Samuel James Cassidy’s rampage at S.J. rail yard
New details have been revealed about the mass shooting at San Jose’s Valley Transportation Authority control center Wednesday. That morning, Samuel James Cassidy, armed with three semiautomatic handguns and 32 high-capacity magazines of ammunition, would begin a 10 minutes of mayhem that would leave 10 dead, including himself from a self-inflicted gunshot.
By Chronicle Digital Team |
Updated: May 29, 2021 1:14 p.m.
5:39 a.m.: Cassidy leaves his home on Angmar Court after hefting a large bag into the passenger side of his Ford F-150 pickup parked in his driveway. A burning pot of ammunition in the house will ignite a fire.
What we know about the VTA light rail gunman Sam Cassidy
By Tom Vacar and Evan Sernoffsky
Published
Neighbor of VTA gunman describes the odd interactions he had with the suspect
Samuel Cassidy, the 57 year-old VTA employee who opened fire and killed 8 of his colleagues, set his house on fire right before the mass shooting. Hear from one of his neighbors, who describes Cassidy as a weird and rude person that he tried to avoid.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Before he killed eight co-workers during a morning meeting at a San Jose Valley Transportation Authority light rail yard facility Wednesday and then turned the gun on himself, 57-year-old Sam James Cassidy was a quiet, if not strange, man with no apparent major criminal record, according to co-workers and court files.
Samuel Cassidy, 57, opened fire at the at the Valley Transportation Authority yard in Santa Clara shortly before 7am, before he turned the gun on himself.