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2021 San Jose shooting | |
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![]() Sheriff's deputies block access to the VTA Guadalupe Division yard a day after the shooting took place. | |
Location | 101 West Younger Avenue, San Jose, California, U.S. |
Coordinates | 37°21′15″N 121°54′30″W / 37.35417°N 121.90833°W |
Date | May 26, 2021 c. 6:30[1] – 6:43 a.m.[2] (PDT) |
Target | Staff at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority facility |
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder, androcide, murder–suicide, workplace shooting, arson |
Weapons | Three semiautomatic handguns[3] |
Deaths | 10 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 0 |
Perpetrator | Samuel James Cassidy |
Motive | Unknown |
On May 26, 2021, a mass shooting occurred at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) rail yard in San Jose, California, United States. A 57-year-old VTA employee, Samuel James Cassidy, shot and killed nine VTA employees before committing suicide.[1][4] It is the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the San Francisco Bay Area.[5]
As a result of the shooting, service throughout the VTA light rail system was suspended or limited for months.[6] The city announced and later passed a package of policy proposals intended to curb gun violence, including mandatory liability insurance (the first law of its kind in the nation) and fees for gun owners.[7]
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