🚨NO WHITE SUPREMACISTS INVOLVED🚨
ABC7 News Bay Area published September 21, 2024: 1 killed in shooting at VTA facility in San Jose, authorities say. One person was killed following an overnight shooting at the VTA Chaboya Division Yard in San Jose.
KPIX CBS News SF Bay Area published September 21, 2024: Raw Video: News conference following deadly shooting at VTA bus yard in San Jose. News conference following a fatal shooting Friday night in the parking lot of the VTA Chaboya Division bus yard in San Jose.
ABC7 News, San Francisco, CA local
written by Cornell Barnard
Saturday, September 21, 2024
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- A shooting in San Jose has left a Valley Transportation Authority employee dead. The homicide happened Friday night at VTA'S Chaboya Yard.
The victim was a longtime bus driver.
For many employees, it's a triggering event after a mass shooting at VTA on May 26, 2021.
"We're sad for his passing, our prayers are with his family," said ATU Local 265 President, Raj Singh.
Workers at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority are still processing news of a shooting which left a bus driver dead. Transit Union President, Raj Sign knew the victim, a VTA driver for 10 years.
"We lost a good person very good individual, I can't recall a negative interaction with him," said Singh.
The deadly shooting happened Friday around 9:40 p.m. at VTA'S Chaboya Division Yard. The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department says it appears to be an isolated incident.
A motive is unclear and no arrests have been made, and investigators are following leads.
"We have increased security presence not just at this facility, but all our facilities, but this appears to be an isolated incident," said VTA CEO and General Manager, Carolyn Gonot.
For many employees, it's a grim reminder of the 2021 mass shooting at VTA'S Guadalupe Yard.
Nine employees were killed.
The gunman was Samuel Cassidy, 57, a VTA worker. He died by suicide after law enforcement arrived to the Guadalupe rail yard.
"We really thought we were getting passed some of the stuff from before. Obviously this is going to spur a lot of that back," said Singh.
"I think for many employees who were here then, it brings back that horrible experience but the loss of another co-worker," said Cindy Chavez, Santa Clara County Supervisor.
All employees will be offered mental health counseling, if requested.
"I want to make sure the public knows that our system is safe, no service interruptions, our employees are here for them and here for each other," Gonot said.
If anyone has any information regarding the incident, authorities are asking the public to contact the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department Anonymous Crime Tipline at 408-808-4431.
***THIS SJ MASS VTA SHOOTING HAPPENED 3 YEARS AGO***
KPIX CBS News SF Bay Area published May 27, 2021: San Jose VTA Shooting: Officials Honor Memory Of 9 Shooting Victims. VTA Chair Glenn Hendricks pays tribute to each of the nine San Jose mass shooting victims.
KCAL News published May 26, 2021: San Jose Mass Shooting: 9 Dead Including Gunman At VTA Rail Yard.
The man who shot and killed eight people at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) light rail yard Wednesday was identified as Samuel Cassidy, 57, a San Jose resident and VTA employee.
KPIX CBS News SF Bay Area published May 27, 2021: VTA Shooter Was Scheduled for Disciplinary Meeting on Day of Massacre. A source has confirmed to KPIX that shooting suspect Samuel cCassidy had been facing a disciplinary hearing Wednesday at the VTA over his conduct in the past. Andria Borba reports.
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