The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority on Monday held a press conference regarding findings from an independent investigation into the May 26, 2021, mass shooting in the VTA's San Jose rail yard that left nine employees dead.
An independent investigator was commissioned to evaluate if "there was anything we could have or should have known that might have prevented this tragedy," said Chief of External Affairs for the VTA Jim Lawson.
The investigator, Morin I. Jacob from Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, said in the report given to the VTA that 47 witnesses had been interviewed, and that "there were no reports made to VTA that would have put VTA on notice that Cassidy might engage in violent behavior." "pattern of insubordination" and had been involved in multiple altercations with co-workers prior to the shooting
"By failing to act, VTA gave a man with known and dangerous propensities access to 379 employees at the yard," Eva Silva, the attorney representing the victim's family, said in a statement last May. "Nine of them are dead as a result."
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