Disgruntled worker who killed nine appeared to target victims
by
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo stops to view a makeshift memorial for the rail yard shooting victims in front of City Hall in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, May 27, 2021. An employee opened fire Wednesday at a California rail yard, killing eight people before taking his own life as law enforcement rushed in, authorities said, marking the latest attack in a year that has seen a sharp increase in mass killings as the nation emerges from coronavirus restrictions. (Haven Daley/AP)
SAN JOSE, Calif. A gunman who killed nine people at a California rail yard where he worked appeared to target some of the victims, a sheriff told The Associated Press on Thursday, while a Biden administration official said the shooter spoke of hating his workplace when customs officers detained him after a 2016 trip to the Philippines.
He’s going to be really missed | Tracy man s death in railyard shooting leaves neighbors mourning Luke Cleary, Eric Escalante
There s a neighborhood in the city of Tracy where the news of a deadly mass shooting in San Jose hit especially hard.
It s because that neighborhood was home to Timothy Romo, a 49-year-old Valley Transportation Authority worker who was killed Wednesday.
Authorities confirmed Romo was one of nine people killed in the San Jose railyard shooting before the suspected gunman took his own life.
While many might know Romo as a victim in the shooting, his neighborhood in Tracy knew him as a friend and as someone who never hesitated to lend a helping hand.
Among the San Jose mass shooting victims being remembered are two Valley Transportation Authority workers with families, whose lives and futures ended much too.
Police secure the scene of a mass shooting at a rail yard run by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in San Jose, California, May 26, 2021. REUTERS/Peter DaSilva