Long-time Valley Transportation Authority employee Samuel Cassidy, 57, the rail yard massacre gunman, killed nine people on May 26, 2021, at the San Jose VTA rail yard in San Jose, Calif., where he worked. - Courtesy VTA/ZUMA Wire/TNS
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Valley Transporation Authority maintenance worker who fatally shot nine co-workers and then himself at a light rail yard Wednesday morning was a “highly disgruntled” employee who came to the facility armed with 32 illegal high-capacity magazines, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday. The gunman in the San Francisco Bay Area’s deadliest mass shooting, identified as 57-year-old Samuel James Cassidy of San Jose, opened fire upon co-workers in two buildings at about 6:34 a.m. Wednesday, and took his own life as law enforcement officers closed in, authorities...
