evidence from those who are unfortunately died in the shooting. at the same time you re trying to develop an as full and rich picture of the shooter that you possibly can. you begin by identifying that person likely by finger printing that person on the scene. you can do that remotely and then figuring out who that person is, where they lived and worked. looks like the shooter may have been an employee of the rail system and then to try to develop an understanding as to why that person showed up at the rail yard today with a rifle and started killing people. that s a really important question for the community and the rail system to think about security going forward but ultimately it does not change the fact that you have a number of citizens killed today which is horrific. it is. another mass shooting. sadly we have been through this
sense of how close it is why we don t know where the shooting took place in relation to where we are but given the law enforcement building near the facility that tells you how quickly authorities may have been able to respond in terms of what took place. this taking place in san jose proper. we re not sure which agency is taking the lead but they would be involved with this shooting given the magnitude of what we are talking about. see the officials walking up to the microphone and we ll listen in. you have a couple minutes. you re fine. this is the deputy that briefed earlier. here we go. good morning, everyone. my name is deputy russell davis. santa clara county sheriff s
was this random? was the person recently fired? we need to know this because we need to figure out how to prevent this from happening again. so we re still early in this and there s a lot of leg work to be done by law enforcement. jonathan, we are told by the mayor that we will have more information from him in 20, 25 minutes on the scene and tweeted a shooting at the vta facility left several people treated why the situation being assess janice dickinson the facility is evacuated. i will update. we should hear from the mayor there. i said 20 to 25 minutes or so. take me through the crime scene at the moment. you have the sheriff s deputy there is and state authorities, federal agencies respond. to do everything they can to try to put the horrific pieces of yet another mass shooting together. so listen. this is the second phase of this incident response. the initial part is responding
live pictures there, san jose, california. the scene several hours ago of a mass shooting. we don t know the number killed or injured. as we wait let s get to dan simon there now on the ground. of this mass the shooting. describe the scene. reporter: hi, john. we are in front of the santa clara county sheriff s office. the people are walking out and appear to be transportation authority employees who were at the sheriff s office and told a reunification center between employees and the families. we don t know if some of them may have been victims to the shooting and will be interviewed by authorities but quite a crowd of employees who left and
we ll learn more. we are just at the beginning of this investigation and will see how it plays out. another tragic day. another mass shooting that probably we ll find out could have been avoided. thank you. i appreciate your time. thank you so much for joining us. john king picks up the breaking news coverage right now. hello, everybody. i m john king in washington. sad major breaking news from california. multiple dead. multiple injured. after a shooting at a santa clara county rail yard. we have multiple casualties at this point. i can t confirm the exact number of injuries and fatalities but there are multiple injuries and multiple fatalities in this case. that very brief update is a