Headline Roundup • May 26th, 2021
California Transit Worker Kills 8, Takes Own Life In Mass Shooting
Summary from the AllSides News Team
A light rail transit employee opened fire at his workplace in San Jose, California on Wednesday morning, killing eight co-workers and wounding another before taking his own life. The gunman was identified as Samuel Cassidy, 57, according to the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office. California Governor Gavin Newsom cancelled an event to rush to the scene. Newsom described gun violence in the U.S. as an epidemic, saying, “This happens again and again – rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat...It begs the question what the hell is going on in America?” President Joe Biden was briefed on the shooting Wednesday, and subsequently urged Congress to "take immediate action" on gun legislation.
The story received wide coverage from across the political spectrum.
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Reuters
A California transit employee killed eight co-workers and wounded another before taking his own life on Wednesday,the latest in a spate of deadly U.S. mass shootings, prompting the state’s governor to ask: “What the hell is wrong with us?”
Authorities did not immediately offer many details or a possible motive for the shooting, which unfolded about 6:30 a.m. Pacific Time (1330 GMT) at a light-rail yard for commuter trains of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), in the heart of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area.
New York Post (News)
An employee at a California light rail facility opened fire at his workplace Wednesday morning — leaving at least eight people dead and “multiple people” injured, officials said.
Samuel Cassidy, 57, attacked San Jose’s VTA Light Rail Facility on West Younger Avenue near the airport around 6:30 a.m. local time before turning the gun on himself when he encountered sheriff deputies, according to the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office.
“I was running so fast. I just ran for my life,” Rochelle Hawkins, a VTA mechanic who was at the facility during...
The Guardian
A shooting that erupted in the early hours of Wednesday morning at a light rail maintenance yard in San Jose, California, has left at least nine people dead, including the gunman.
Local leaders have described the violence as a “terrible, terrible” tragedy as authorities search for a motive.
Authorities reported on Wednesday that there were about 40 people at the facility at the time the shootings occurred and the gunfire erupted in two separate buildings. Police say the shooter was an employee of the Valley Transportation Authority, which operates the light...
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