Shooter Sam Cassidy unknown motive; The death of the ninth victim

SAN JOSE, CA – The mayor of Santa Clara County said, Thursday, that a Northern California railroad yard worker shot nine other employees before he apparently committed suicide, targeting his victims and firing more than 39 rounds. Sheriff Laurie Smith said he’s in rage, telling at least one person “I’m not going to shoot you.” “Then I shoot other people. So I imagine there is some kind of thinking about who wants to shoot.” Smith said the 57-year-old gunman, identified as Samuel J. The San Jose Canyon Transportation Authority around 6 a.m. on Wednesday with a duffel bag and opened fire at about 6:30 a.m. in two buildings in the sprawling light rail hub. The VTA provides buses, light rail, and other transportation services throughout Santa Clara County, the most populous county in the Bay Area. “When our MPs entered the door, he was still shooting at the beginning,” Smith said. “When our deputy saw him, he committed suicide,” the mayor’s office said on Thursday afternoon. Officials found three 9mm semi-automatic pistols at the scene, including 32 high-capacity single tanks loaded with additional ammunition, and tried to warn him. Coworkers, Then Shot: Lovers of Shooting Victims at Railroad Yard in San Jose, California, it’s illegal to buy magazines with more than 10 rounds. However, if Cassidy had acquired it before January 1, 2000, he would be permitted to obtain it unless otherwise prohibited from possessing firearms. Authorities were still investigating the motive but said the suspect “was a very disgruntled employee of the VTA to many. Years, which may have contributed to why he targeted VTA employees.” US customs officers arrested the gunman in 2016 and found him professing hatred for his workplace According to the Homeland Security memo obtained by The Wall Street Journal. Books about terrorism, fear and data … as well as a black diary filled with lots of notes about how he hated the FTA “when Customs and Border Protection detained him after a trip to the Philippines, according to the note reported by the British newspaper The Guardian. Journal: A Biden administration official said He viewed the memo and detailed its contents to the Associated Press. The memo does not mention the reason for his arrest after his 2016 flight. He notes that the gunman had a “minor criminal history” and cites the 1983 incident where he was arrested in San Jose and charged with “misdemeanor obstruction / misdemeanor” Resisting a peace officer. ”A Department of Homeland Security spokesman declined to comment on the memo. Timeline of events: Officers rushed into San Jose’s railroad yard while gunfire was still ringing, and most of the victims were front-line workers: bus and light rail operators, mechanics and workers Airline and Assistant Supervisor.Eight victims were initially identified by the Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office: Paul Delacruz Mejia, 42; Tabtjdeep Singh, 36; Adrian Balleza, 29; Jose Digisos Hernandez, 35; Timothy Michael Romo, 49; Michael Joseph Rodometkin, 40; Abdul-Wahab Al-Agmandan, 63, and Lars Kepler Lane, 63, the ninth victim, Alex Ward Fritsch, 49, was taken to a local hospital before his death on Wednesday evening, and Cassidy had been a long-time worker for the railway company. Payroll records obtained by ABC-7 News indicate that he earned $ 160,000 in base work, overtime, and other pay as a “substation supervisor” at the VTA. Investigators are trying to determine if he was involved in a fire in his home and another fire nearby. According to the San Jose Mercury News, security camera footage of a neighbor is seen leaving his home at 5:39 a.m. with a duffel bag, and about an hour later the San Jose Fire Department received a phone call about a fire at a lumber shop. About 5 miles from the rail yard. Then came the first 911 calls reporting the shooting in the light rail yard, and minutes later followed a call to set a fire in the gunman’s house, and Smith said the gunman apparently set a timer or slow burning device to power his home. Fire, a woman who had dated Cassidy filed a restraining order in 2009, accusing him of rape and sexual assault. The lawsuit, obtained by The Mercury News, also includes accusations of severe mood swings and alcohol abuse. His ex-wife says he has talked about killing people at work more than a decade ago. “I didn’t believe it and it never happened,” said Cecilia Nelson. “Until now”. What the hell is wrong with us ?: After the San Jose shooting, California Governor Gavin Newsom asked that Nelson had been married to Cassidy for nearly 10 years before they filed for divorce in 2005. She told The Mercury News that he was often married to Cassidy . Angry at his colleagues and his assignments at work. She said, however, that she has not spoken to him in over a decade. Smith told CNN and NBC that a safe in the railroad yard is believed to contain “bomb materials, detonation wires and explosive precursors”. The presence of the gunman on social media, if he had, was not easily apparent. California Gov. Gavin Newsom met with some family members of the victims and spoke at a press conference Wednesday, expressing his frustration with the mass shooting cycle in the United States. Law enforcement efforts at the scene but asked, “What the hell is wrong with us, and when will we deal with this?” Later on Wednesday, President Joe Biden said he was ordering “once again” flags to be raised at half of the staff to celebrate another mass shooting and to make an appeal for arms control legislation. “I urge Congress to take immediate action and respond to the call of the American people, including the vast majority of gun owners, to help end a pandemic, and he said that the United States has historically reported a gun murder rate 25 times higher than that of other rich countries. In 2021.” Alone, there were 15 mass killings, each killing at least four victims, according to the Associated Press / USA Today / Northeastern University database. All cases were shootings and killed 87 people, and Wednesday’s mass shooting was the second. In Santa Clara County in less than two years, in 2019, a gunman opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, killing three people and wounding 17. Hooke from Chicago Contribution: Crystal Hayes, Jorge L Ortiz and Will Carls, states USA Today; The Associated Press