SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA — An employee carrying multiple guns opened fire on co-workers at a Valley Transportation Authority light rail facility in San Jose on Wednesday morning, killing nine and injuring several other workers. Here are the details:<br /><br />The shooting began just after 6:30 A.M. on the morning of Wednesday 26 May in the city of San Jose in California. <br /><br />At that time, several 911 calls reported shots being fired near a maintenance yard of the Valley Transit Authority. <br /><br />Members of a union representing VTA workers were meeting in the yard when the shooting began, and some reports suggest that the shooting started at the meeting. <br /><br />The attacker was identified as 57-year-old Sam Cassidy. Most of the shooting happened in the maintenance yard of the facility. <br /><br />Police rushed to the scene and confronted the shooter within minutes of the start of the incident. <br /><br />Officers say the shooter had more than one gun and was shooting single shots when they approached him. <br /><br />When the shooter saw the police, he shot himself immediately, leaving nine victims dead and many injured. <br /><br />A fire started at a house that authorities believe to be Cassidy's home, at around the same time as the shooting started. <br /><br />Cassidy's ex-wife told The Associated Press that he had a bad temper and would rail about being treated unfairly at work.<br /><br />The nine victims were all employees of the Valley Transportation Authority. Their names and ages were Alex Ward Fitch, 49: Michael Rudometkin, 40; Lars Lane, 63; Paul Megia, 42; Taptejdeep Singh, 36; Adrian Balleza, 29; Jose Hernandez, 35; Timothy Romo, 49; and Abdolvahab Alaghmandan, 63.
