The shooting killed employees who had been bus and light rail operators, mechanics, linemen and an assistant superintendent over the course of their careers. One had worked for the agency since 1999.
The victims, many of them longtime employees of the transit agency, were identified by the Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner Wednesday night as Paul Delacruz Megia, 42; Taptejdeep Singh, 36; Adrian Balleza, 29; Jose Dejesus Hernandez, 35; Timothy Michael Romo, 49; Michael Joseph Rudometkin, 40; Abdolvahab Alaghmandan, 63; Lars Kepler Lane, 63; and Alex Ward Fritch, 49.
The ninth victim, Fritch, died late Wednesday after he was transported to the hospital in critical condition, the medical examiner s office said.
Authorities released the names of the nine people who were killed when a gunman opened fire at a San Jose Valley Transportation Authority rail yard Wednesday.
An employee who gunned down nine people at a California rail yard and then killed himself as law enforcement rushed in had talked about killing people at work.
While a motive for the shooting has not been publicly revealed, VTA gunman Sam Cassidy's ex-wife said he had talked about killing people at work more than a decade ago.
Nine people were killed and multiple people were injured when a Valley Transportation Authority employee identified as Samuel Cassidy, 57, went on a deadly shooting rampage on Wednesday at the San Jose, California transit facility, authorities said.