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


Documents from the transport company where the tragedy occurred include the statement of an employee who assured that Samuel Cassidy scared him and that he could lose his head

El pistolero de San José tuvo cuatro conflictos laborales recientes antes de matar a nueve compañeros
The San Jose shooter had recent conflicts with coworkers at VTA.

Photo: AMY OSBORNE / AFP / Getty Images

Ricardo López Juárez

The man who killed nine co-workers at a San José railway station , California had a whole recent labor dispute history as an employee of the Transportation Authority del Valle del Silicón (VTA), according to documents that have been published.

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

– KTVU (@KTVU) June 12, 2021

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.

One more incident occurred in November of 2020 for doing wrong use of radio equipment, using it for personal communication , and then left work without permission.

Days after the shooting, investigators found at the shooter’s house 12 weapons of fire,

more than 22, 01 bullets and 17 Molotov bombs .

According to an ABC News report, the San Jose shooter had an ominous off-work incident in 2016 when he was returning from the Philippines when he was found books about terrorism and manifestos , plus a notebook with written details about his hatred of VTA.