San Jose shooting: 9th victim dies after rail yard shooting
The 9th victim has died in the shooting spree at Northern California light rail yard, the “last dismal cost of the previous shooting,” Mayor Sam Liccardo said Thursday.
“Presently, everything we can do is support our families and collaborators in torment, and help their excursion to recuperating,” Liccardo tweeted.
The shooter, a representative whose ex says had battled with outrage issues, kicked the bucket of a self-caused gunfire wound, police representative Russell Davis said. Different workers were among the people in question. Specialists had not decided a rationale.
The presumed shooter, distinguished as Samuel J. Cassidy, started shooting at about 6:30 a.m. nearby time in two structures at the at the rambling Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) light rail center point. VTA gives transport, light rail and other travel administrations all through Santa Clara County, the most populated region in the Bay Area.
“When our deputies went through the door, initially he was still firing rounds,” Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said. “When our deputy saw him, he took his life.”
The underlying eight casualties were recognized by the Santa Clara County coroner’s office Wednesday night: Paul Delacruz Megia, 42; Taptejdeep Singh, 36; Adrian Balleza, 29; Jose Dejesus Hernandez, 35; Timothy Michael Romo, 49; Michael Joseph Rudometkin, 40; Abdolvahab Alaghmandan, 63, and Lars Kepler Lane, 63.
They had been transport and light rail administrators, mechanics, linemen and an associate director throughout the span of their vocations.
Cassidy, 57, was a long-term rail organization laborer. He procured $160,000 in base, extra time and other compensation as a VTA “substation maintain
Examiners are attempting to decide if he was engaged with a fire at his home and another close by blast.
President Joe Biden said he was “yet again” ordering flags be flown at half staff to mark another mass shooting tragedy and made a plea for gun control legislation.
“I urge Congress to take immediate action and heed the call of the American people, including the vast majority of gun owners, to help end this epidemic of gun violence in America,” he said
