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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).
Surveillance video shows VTA gunman walking between buildings during mass shooting
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The Santa Clara County Sheriff s Office has released new surveillance video showing the moment after an employee gunned down several people at a San Jose railyard.
The video shows the suspect walking away from a building where he shot multiple coworkers and towards another area where he would kill more victims, according to authorities.
#NEW surveillance footage shows #SamuelCassidy walking between the two buildings where he shot and killed nine of his coworkers, Wednesday. @SCCoSheriff says “time stamp depicted in video is not accurate to current time of incident.”
At the scene, a visibly shaken Governor Gavin Newsom lauded the heroism of the first responders and addressed the difficulty in dealing with yet another mass shooting. There s a sameness to this, he said, and I think that numbness is something we re all feeling. … It begs the damn question, what the hell is going on in the United States of America? What the hell is wrong with us? And when are we going to come to grips with this?
Cassidy had worked for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority since at least 2012.
His ex-wife, Cecilia Nelms, told CBS News his temper … was one of our biggest problems.
The eight victims of a mass shooting in San Jose on Wednesday have been identified as investigators begin the process of figuring out why such a fierce burst of violence happened during the early morning hours at a light rail yard.