From CNN s Stella Chan
Employees at the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) had previous active shooter training at the facility where a gunman, Wednesday, opened fire and killed nine people.
“We provide law enforcement services to VTA, and we, our team had actually trained all VTA employees what to do in an active shooter and had done an exercise specifically in that building with VTA employees,” Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith told CNN affiliate KGO Thursday morning.
“They were told to run, to hide, or to engage suspect. I don’t know what they did. We may have some heroes also with VTA, some of them may have lost their lives, but I think that they reacted as they should have, Smith added.
AP
The man who
authorities say fatally shot nine people Wednesday morning in San Jose, California, had a history of mood swings, two people who knew him said, and he opened fire on his coworkers at a public transit agency at about the same time his home went up in flames.
The suspected gunman in the latest spate of American gun violence has been identified as Sam Cassidy, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation confirmed to CNN.
The shooter did not exchange gunfire with officers who responded to the shooting, according to police, and it has been initially determined he died by suicide. Authorities have yet to establish a motive for the shooting, but court documents and interviews with those who knew the gunman describe a man with anger issues dating back at least a decade.
The man who authorities say fatally shot nine people Wednesday morning in San Jose, California, had a history of mood swings, two people who knew him said, and he opened fire on his coworkers at a public transit agency at about the same time his home went up in flames.
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