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.
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.
Nine people were killed and multiple people were injured when a Valley Transportation Authority employee identified as Samuel Cassidy, 57, went on a deadly shooting rampage on Wednesday at the San Jose, California transit facility, authorities said.
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It’s never enjoyable to talk about a mass shooting. The idea that I’m talking about such a loss of life hurts my soul, probably because I get taken back to another mass shooting, but also probably because they’re just awful in general.
The magnitude of the shooting may play a slight factor, but not a huge one. They’re all awful.
The nine victims of a mass shooting in San Jose on Wednesday have been identified as investigators begin the process of figuring out why such a fierce burst of violence happened during the early morning hours at a light rail yard.