A Filipino-American was among the casualties in a shooting rampage at a San Jose rail yard in California on May 26. Paul Dela Cruz Megia, 42, was among the nine individuals who were fatally shot by Samuel James Cassidy, a maintenance worker at Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (V.T.A).
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Taptejdeep Singh died trying to save others from a gunman. Kirk Bertolet saw some of his coworkers take their last breaths.And friends, family and survivors were left
• Associated Press • May 27, 2021
This combo of images shows the nine victims of a shooting at a VTA rail yard on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, in San Jose, Calif. Top row, from left, Abdolvahab Alaghmandan, Adrian Balleza, Alex Fritch, Jesus Hernandez III. Bottom row, from left, Lars Lane, Paul Megia, Timothy Romo, Michael Rudometkin and Taptejdeep Singh. (Valley Transportation Authority )
The nine people who were killed in a shooting at a California rail yard were remembered by their families, colleagues and friends as loving, kind-hearted and heroic.
Paul Delacruz Megia enthusiastically embraced challenges in his job at the Valley Transportation Authority, his supervisor said. Taptejdeep Singh led people to safety during the shooting. Adrian Balleza was fun to work with, and Alex Fritch was the rock of his family.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) First, there were gunshots. Then came the screams. And then silence. “Hey, what’s going on? Anybody all right? What’s happening?” Kirk Bertolet called out to his coworkers at a Northern California rail yard on Wednesday morning. “It was just eerie.” Cautiously, Bertolet left his barricaded office at the Santa […]