From CNN s Stella Chan
Employees at the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) had previous active shooter training at the facility where a gunman, Wednesday, opened fire and killed nine people.
“We provide law enforcement services to VTA, and we, our team had actually trained all VTA employees what to do in an active shooter and had done an exercise specifically in that building with VTA employees,” Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith told CNN affiliate KGO Thursday morning.
“They were told to run, to hide, or to engage suspect. I don’t know what they did. We may have some heroes also with VTA, some of them may have lost their lives, but I think that they reacted as they should have, Smith added.
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While a motive for the shooting has not been publicly revealed, VTA gunman Sam Cassidy's ex-wife said he had talked about killing people at work more than a decade ago.