A Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority employee shot and killed eight people at a VTA maintenance yard in San Jose on Wednesday morning and also died there, authorities said.
A Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority employee shot and killed eight people at a VTA maintenance yard in San Jose on Wednesday morning and also died there, authorities said.
Updated: Thu, May 27, 2021, 3:42 pm
A Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority employee shot and killed nine people at a VTA maintenance yard in San Jose on Wednesday morning and also died there, authorities said.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff s Office first received reports of the shooting at 6:34 a.m. and dispatched deputies to the rail yard, which is adjacent to the sheriff s office s headquarters.
The county medical examiner-coroner s office identified the nine people killed in the mass shooting as Adrian Balleza, 29; Jose Dejesus Hernandez III, 35; Taptejdeep Singh, 36; Michael Joseph Rudometkin, 40; Paul Delacruz Megia, 42; Alex Ward Fritch, 49; Timothy Michael Romo, 49; Abdolvahab Alaghmandan, 63; and Lars Kepler Lane, 63. The coroner s office notified all next of kin before their names were released to the public.