SAN JOSE, Calif. — Authorities say the gunman who killed nine co-workers at a California rail yard had 12 guns and 22,000 rounds of ammunition at his home that he set on fire. Officials said Friday that the shooter, Samuel James Cassidy, had coordinated a fire at his house to
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The details are different, but the situation is savagely familiar: An armed and angry man walked into a crowded setting on Wednesday and shot and killed many of the people there. This time, it was nine workers at San Jose’s Valley Transit Authority, some of whom the shooter, who also killed himself, had worked with for years. According to databasesmaintained by news agencies, universities and nonprofit organizations, this was the nation’s 15th mass killing defined as four or more people dead, not including the assailant and the 232nd mass shooting of 2021. In 2020, 106 people died in mass killings. After less than five months in 2021, 86 people are already dead in such killings, all shoo
Nine employees of a San Francisco Bay-area transit agency who died in a mass shooting were remembered Thursday after an employee opened fire Wednesday at the Valley Transit Authority rail yard in San Jose, before taking his own life. (May 27)