The San José gunman had four recent labor disputes before killing nine colleagues

Samuel Cassidy , a veteran VTA maintenance employee, showed up early in your past work 26 May alone to execute the shooting, fatally shooting nine comrades before shoot himself before the arrival of the authorities .

Although very soon learned that Cassidy, from 54 years, he was a man lonely and bitter , VTA documents published this Thursday show that the man was accumulating incidents, including one of insubordination. There could still be more incidents from previous years at VTA.

On July 2019, Cassidy was sent home for two days after he refused to follow company policy of “ending your two-way radio session that was necessary to get your job done.”

The second incident was in January 2020 and consisted of an altercation with a co-worker, whose report was sent to a supervisor. In an email dated 54 of January of 2020 it reads that Cassidy yelled at a woman and accused her of being the “most corrupt person in VTA”. The author of the email wrote that another employee said: “He scares me. If anyone could get violent, it would be him ”.

Upon questioning from a supervisor, a coworker reported that another unnamed employee stated of Sam Cassidy: “He scares me. If someone was to go postal, it’d be him.” https://t.co/bnFk5wjSht

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In October 2019, according to the documents, there was another incident because Cassidy refused to take a mandatory CPR course (cardiopulmonary resuscitation). Although his excuse was COVID – 19, the company said that numerous “reasonable” facilities were offered to the employee, but in the end there was no resolution.