'After months of research, the independent investigator concluded that VTA possessed no prior knowledge nor any warning that the employee/shooter was planning a mass shooting,' said the VTA spokesperson.
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.
The VTA Board of Directors authorized the release of the independent investigator's report, the VTA said. 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."
"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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