Laurie Smith, Santa Clara County Sheriff, said Samuel Cassidy of 57 years, he said at least one of his colleagues who would not shoot him
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The man who killed nine people in the mass shooting of the San José light rail facility , California, shot 39 bullets and apparently selected some of his victims , as published this Thursday Associated Press , that cites the Santa Clara County Sheriff.
The man, identified as Samuel Cassidy, of 57 years, arrived at the railway facilities of the Valle Transportation Authority (VTA, for its acronym in English) about 6 a.m. on Wednesday. Cassidy, who also died, was carrying a thick woolen bag with two semi-automatic pistols and 11 high capacity chargers , as he said to the aforementioned Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith News Agency
“It seems to us right now that said to one of the people there: ‘I’m not going to shoot him.’ And then he shot other people. So I imagine there was some kind of thought about who he wanted to shoot “concluded the sheriff. The authorities published this Wednesday night the names and ages of the nine fatalities .
In the six minutes it took for the officers to go to the scene since they received the first call from 911, the cameras captured moving from place to place. The man committed suicide when officers approached the VTA facility , where there were more than 100 people at that time. Authorities found five victims in one building and two in another, according to Smith.
It has not yet been made public whether the shooter had regularly worked with any of the victims. . The sheriff said investigators were trying to understand the reasons that led Cassidy to open fire on coworkers at the company you had been in for 20 years, according The Mercury News .
“ I’m not sure we’ll ever find the real reason , but we will rebuild everything we can from the witnesses, “said Smith.
Cassidy, whose identity has not been publicly released by official sources, brought to the scene of the shooting 9-millimeter pistols that were apparently legal. However, their high capacity chargers, each with 12 rounds, are prohibited in California . The authorities do not yet know how he obtained the shipment.
The sheriff also said that the person responsible for the shooting would have set a timer or slow-burning device to set your home on fire , where the authorities also found explosives. The fire was registered shortly after the first flames arrived at from the railway facilities.
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