The family of a Santa Clara Valley Transit Agency (VTA) employee killed in a mass shooting last year announced Thursday they are suing the transit agency and other groups for failing to address issues with the shooter, who was also a VTA employee.
One year after 57-year-old Samuel James Cassidy shot and killed nine coworkers in a rampage at a light rail yard, the family of slain employee Lars Kepler Lane filed a lawsuit alleging negligence and wrongful death by the VTA, the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office and a private security firm by failing to address the gunman's history of violent threats or provide adequate security.
The transit agency"knew, and had experienced, Cassidy's repeated pattern of insubordination. They were also aware of numerous verbal altercations Cassidy had with coworkers on at least four separate occasions, in which SCVTA failed to adequately investigate and/or discipline Cassidy for any of these separate incidents," said the lawsuit filed by the family of Lane, who had worked at the VTA since 2001 and had three children.
The VTA, sheriff's office, and Allied Universal, the parent company of Universal Protection Service, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday.
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