it is his neighbor presumably sam cassidy. it appears is even dressed in his work uniform and he quietly is going about his business putting stuff in his truck. a few minutes later this video on his cell phone. this shows the house -- cassidy's house going up in smoke and flames. this was a two alarm fire. it was quite an event. he talked to us about an uncomfortable encounter he had with his neighbor a few months ago. >> i talked to him five times but he never talks to me to say hi. he stared at me all the time. never said hi. just didn't say anything. kind of scary. he looks like a scary person. he lived alone. i never saw his friends. and never saw his family. and never saw anybody come to his house. lived alone. >> what happened the one time you were describing when you we out? >> he yelled at me don't come to my driveway. you have to get out. i took off. after that i haven't talked to him since then. >> when was that? >> that was maybe about six months ago. after that i never said hi. i ignored him. >> >> here is some vid

hearing as some media outlets have been reporting the vta is reviewing all records pertaining to sam cassidysee if he behaved in any way to make his co-workers fearful. >> and that union representing cassidy releasing a statement today on the horrific incidents at the workplace. it reads, quote, i wish to make it crystal clear 58 eu local to 65 officials who are at the site of this unfathomable tragedy. we're not repeat not there to attend any disciplinary or skelly rights hearing or to respond to any job site or racial oriented complaints. i was at the yard simply to check on working conditions and the continual safety of the dedicated men and women who work there. this is coming from the president of the 80 you local to 65. meanwhile, families and friends of those vta workers who were killed this week are still trying to come to terms with that unthinkable loss from towns and neighborhoods are also grieving among the vta 9 was adrian by >> our kron four's rob fladeboe has some reaction now to baez is passing a from his home town of gilroy. rob, what can you tell >> well, that's right. they

the surveillance video comes from doug sue one man who has lived across from sam cassidy 4 years suit says cassidy lived alone and that he never saw friends or family around you never talk to me. say hi, he's >> looking me all the time. you never say hi, it just. those anything. the scaring me look like scared person about an hour after cassidy left his home this morning, his house went up in flames this video also taken by sue shows the thick black smoke billowing out from the home on any mark or just off of east capitol expressway. >> kron four's also learning more about cassidy tonight, his ex-wife said he had a bad temper and that he would tell her how we wanted to kill people at work. she said he had been treated for depression. they divorced in 2005 robert cummings, an attorney who represents a former girlfriend of cassidy's says his client witness mood swings in said he was bipolar. >> after dating for 2 months cassidy proposed to this woman. she said no, because it was too fast. that is when the attorney says his client began to witness odd things happening with cassidy. this

sam. cassidy was a b to employees.n life as law enforcement arrived and you could see on this map. how close the rail yard is to the sheriff's department, which is why the response was so quick ktvu jesse gary has been on the scene all day and has the latest force now, jesse frank over the course of the past hour i checked in with the santa clara county sheriff's office to ask if their bomb squad was still at work. they started early this morning in that v ta light r

sam cassidy 57 years old. that's how we are identifying him, though. authorities have not confirmed that just yet, but the da did say that the reporting that's out there about the shooter is correct. so she tells us, according to his girlfriend's attorney, his former girlfriend's attorney that the 2 of them met on match and that 2 months later he proposed and she thought that that was too fast. so she turned down his proposal. she said no. and then from there, things started to go south. he confirms that the girlfriend told him about cassidy's mood swings and that he was bipolar again, this is according to the former girlfriends attorney for the shooter. sam cassidy and this information was coming from 2009 so that some new information now just coming into our newsroom about the gunman. 57 year-old sam cassidy who according to authorities earlier today, never exchanged gunfire with law enforcement that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the that new information from the show would kind of line up more information that we were able to get th

he has been identified as sam cassidy. this is video showing the shooting suspect leaving his home this morning and driving off to work were police say he opened fire on his coworkers. good evening. >>> we will get right to andrea who is live at the scene with the very latest on this ongoing and lengthy investigation. >> reporter: things moved quickly once shots began being fired in the railyard here at the county government center in san jose. we are now in the portion of the day in the next several days where things will move slowly and methodically as investigators insider trying to clear what they believe are multiple bomb like devices inside the building and there are picked up this morning where the initial push of sheriff's deputies when inside that building well shots were still being fired and on top of this, the vta family has now lost nine members of their family eight of those killed by sam cassidy and sam cassidy killed himself when the eriff's deputies reildi we heaseveral ofy idthe vta glenn hendricks talkin

. >> reporter: from talking to his neighbors and those who knew him, they say sam cassidy was not of very friendly person but they never imagined he would be capable of killing eight of his coworkers here at cecelia was married to sam cassidy for about 10 years and says the 57-year-old had anger issues but never physically hurt her. she vividly recalls how uncomfortable he was around other people. >> not a very friendly person. keeps to himself. >> reporter: after his divorce his ex-girlfriend alleges that they had a volatile off-and-on relationship for about a year with cassidy actually filing a restraining order. the ex-girlfriends attorney spoke on his client's behalf. >> they met on match and they dated for about two months before he proposed. there had been a trip to hawaii. he seemed like a very sweet person. after she rejected that offer she basically told him she did not know him well enough. dient pemaki cou dontthe ed was thhis sexuassault. moings worsenwith alcohoand bel suffered from bipolar disorder. tonight we stopped by his parents house and they refused to comment but

john, it's you know, the big question everyone know wants to know is who is sam cassidy. we heard a little bit about him from michelle kingston earlier tonight. >> there's still so many layers that investigators from the atf and the fbi still have to go through. that is going to be their main focus over the next 24 to 36 hours. i got a chance to talk with michael anderson who spent nearly 30 years with the fbi. he says that the agency will be flooding. san jose with resources, making sure to turn over every stone to learn more about 57 year-old sam cassidy. anderson says right now there is plenty of collaboration taking place between several agencies to try and learn more about him and his motives there simply talking to each other. comparing notes, making sure they know everything he says with 2 large crime scenes unfolding. agents will be very methodical and not only collecting and cataloging the evidence at the seams. he also says if needed agents will use plenty of technology, including 3.60, degree pictures as they seize evidence so they can see the scene asked cassi

santa clara county sheriff's office say this bts security video shows sam cassidy in the upper left juster he shot coworkers , walking across the light railyard to another building where he continues firing. the sheriff says cassidy was armed with 39 millimeters semi automatic handguns and fired 39 rounds, shooting nine coworkers before killing himself. it could have been much worse. the sheriff says they found in an additional 32 individual high-capacity had good magazines with more ammunition at the scene. fbi teams are assisting with 3- d imaging. >> we have brought out our evidence response team from the quantico lab. they will be conducting forensic analysis. they will also be doing ballistics analysis. >> reporter: bomb sniffing dogs also found explosive material in the locker investigators believe belonged to cassidy. the sheriff says cassidy acted alone and appears to have executed his coworkers in a calculated way, picking and choosing who he would kill, telling one person, i am not going to shoot you, then killing others. cassidy showed a hatred for his workplace dating back at

a mass shooting and we're also learning more about when sam cassidy was questioned by federal authorities and why ktvu is james tourists, as the story san jose police and fire departments working together now doing what they call a final sweep of sam cassidy's home, he is the man they say went to the vt. a shot and killed nine of his co workers before turning the gun on himself. he is said to have left behind explosives, not just at the facility, but here at his house. as well. so that's what they're doing here. they're making sure that there are none of these explosives here and that there is no threat to this neighborhood as the investigation overall stands, we now know. detectives found cassidy with three semi automatic guns and more than 30 magazines, he said. so i've only fired about 39 shots. we want to show you some chilling surveillance video of what the sheriff's office says it's cassidy in the middle of his attack. the video shows him walking across the railyard between buildings a and. the sheriff's office said he had already began shooting at this point and was heading to anot

a shooter who describes sam cassidy as reclusive and almost paranoid, james cassidy told the mercury news that he thought his son was bipolar. but the 89 year old said that the last time he saw his son on monday, he quote seemed fine. the father also apologized for the tragedy, saying there is nothing he could say to ease the grief of those families. same cassidy sister and who lives in oregon, said her brother quote felt lost her. truthfully it is one of the saddest things that i have seen in my lifetime here in san jose and turning attention out of the victims of the tragedy coming up how santa's the residents are honoring the lives, the nine lives that were lost, plus the new study that shows san francisco's ban on flavored tobacco could be backfiring is. shy. it. now shea. michael rood american is married his life gloria back in 2010. they had two dogs. she describes her husband as an outgoing and generous person. michael's parents say he attended cupertino schools and was a big bay area sports fan. the family has now set up a go fund me page that has raised more than $12,000. we

now authorities identified the shooter as 57 year old sam cassidy.f the victims have not yet been released while their families are being notified. bomb squad is coming. the guadalupe maintenance facility there on younger avenue after a canine detected some kind of suspicious device. i'll tell you it's going to take a long time. to render in these areas safe. they have to go through every room in every building to ensure that everything is safe. federal state and local investigators are also what cassidy's home where a fire broke out shortly before that shooting rampage. governor newsome traveled to san jose today to meet with the victims who were inside that building ed with their families. one thing i just wanted to briefly speak to is the pain and those victims. i just spent we just had the privilege spending last few hours. with the victims that are waiting. just learn if their loved one is still alive. dialing the phone, so i can't find it. they're trying to go on and find a phone the loved one. when you hear from the corner waiting here from an

long time next door neighbor could not believe sam cassidy was involved. >> it is scary seeing -- to hat. >> she said cassidy would come to his parent's house to work on his car. she never saw anything of concern. >> >> he is friendly. we just say hi, how are you doing his parents are very, very nice. >> the south bay community trying once again to understand how and why the crime so senseless could happen. in san jose, kat e larson. >>> we are updating the website and appas we get new information in. >>> let's look at what's going on. the a's are back. they are staying in town and taking on the angels tonight. 6:40. 63 degrees and by 9:40 it's 58. it'll be breezy at the old game. let's take a look ahead. lot of us are going to kick off summer this weekend and some of us are going to feel like it. saturday is the coolest day in our forecast. entire seven day will be the warmest. just a real quick turn around. temperatures in the 50's at the coast. will eventually warm in to the 60's. a local sea breeze that will keep you from over heating. the rest of us go to the 80's, 90's and 100 m

police say they're still investigating the motive that prompted sam cassidy to open fire at his workplaceednesday, but according to his ex wife, cecilia nelms, his anger towards colleagues goes back years. his ex wife said to the associated press that cassidy had a bad temper on would tell her that he wanted to kill people at work, she said before their divorce in 2005, he would come back angry about things that happened at work and says quote he would get more mad. he would dwell on things. i never believed him, and it never happened. until now. anger is indeed a commonplace emotion. psychologist ephraim fernandez is a visiting professor at uc berkeley. his latest research paper examined more than 100. mass shootings between. 2000 and 2015 and found that unlike some portrayals of shooters as mentally ill or monsters, many shared one common place trait in 70% of these cases of mass shootings. there was. there was evidence off anger. these are individuals who are experiencing any emotion that's actually quite commonplace. and the difference of course being that they take it to such an extr

. >> reporter: we know that investigators have executed several search warrants at sam cassidy's home . late this afternoon, they told us exactly what they found inside that home and now we know how he said that fire to go off simultaneous with his shooting spree here at the railyard. >> there was a pot on the stove at the residence. the stove was likely turned on. inside the body, they located ammunition. around the pot, there was accelerants. >> reporter: call it a makeshift method to ensure maximum destruction at sam cassidy's east san jose home. that is when investigators say the mass murderer simultaneously lit his home on fire while systematically killing nine coworkers at the railyard, 11 miles away. santa clara county sheriff released these photos of a huge cachet of ammunitions and firearms cassidy stashed around his residence. an estimated 25,000 rounds of ammunition, what dozen guns including shotguns, rifles and 17 molotov cocktails. >> it appears the molotov cocktails, which are incendiary devices, were in a state where they were ready to use. they were glass containers f

and within the past hour we also heard from sam cassidy's ex-wife. she revealed to the associated press that cassidy had a bad temper. and would tell her that he wanted to kill people at work. she said she never believed him. until now. nearly 12 hours after the shooting still no official word on a motive. >> a lot left to uncover on this shooting investigation and we will have continuing coverage on air streaming on cbsn bay area anisteoo a freeway shooting on the freeway. police say a woman was shot in the leg on the connector and in lafayette and it happened in 330 this afternoon the victim said she was shot by a man in the passenger seat of a chrysler 300 sedan and we will stay on top of the story as well and the second recall effort against the district attorney is officially underway and then a rally was held and this campaign was put together but they think the other recall will fail and largely because it was started by a republican and today's rally also served as a distribution point for the actual petitions and this recall campaign has unti

oficina del alguacil dieron a conocer el nombre del asesino como sam james cassidy.tamos las oficina del alguacil, quienes no dieron detalles. esto detalles son preliminares ya que a medida que pasan los dÍas esto puede ir cambiando. las vÍctimas del tiroteo aumentÓ a 10, incluyendo el tiroteo. >> el atacante atacÓ a nueve personas. tenemos nuevos fallecidos. reportero: detective de la oficina del alguacil informaron que sam james cassidy, de 59 aÑos, entrÓ al lugar con tres armas semiautomÁticas y 11 municiones. >> cuando entramos empezamos a llamar a los policÍas y a los alguaciless. reportero: las autoridades informaron que el atacante habÍa seleccionado a sus vÍctimas. >> tenemos testigos y personas que vieron lo que estaba pasando. reportero: quÉ dieron los testigos? >> es algo que no te puedo decir. reportero: fuimos a la casa del asesino, y su casa incendiada. >> el personal en nuestra oficina fueron y miraron la escena y han chequeado con su equip para asegurarse que no haya nada especial. reportero: hasta el momento no se ha encontrado un artefacto explosivo

if they are going to focus all of their attention on sam cassidy's home. he is his home is right there with a black sedan. you can see the firefighters there and the police officers standing in front that black sedan. the garage open. they are going to be here today, tomorrow and the next several days because with him committing suicide, they hope the evidence inside the home will provide the answers that they are looking for more specifically for the family and friends what they are looking for a motive. now, i can tell you that this is mcloughlin. stay away from here because cars are being turned around and they say more personnel will be here. so would not be surprising if the shutdown this part of mcloughlin for days because you can see all that personnel there. there are not sure if the home is booby-trapped, if there's something dangerous inside, but they're not taking any chances, which is why they even have a bomb squad here just in case there's anything in there that could harm the officers and the investigators. so very meticulous. they do have t

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the surveillance video comes from doug sue one man who has lived across from sam cassidy 4 years suit says cassidy lived alone and that he never saw friends or family around you never talk to me. say hi, he's >> looking staring me all the time. you never say hi, it just. those anything. the scaring me look like scared person about an hour after cassidy left his home this morning, his house went up in flames this video also taken by sue shows the thick black smoke billowing out from the home on any mark or just off of east capitol expressway. >> kron four's also learning more about cassidy tonight, his ex-wife said he had a bad temper and that he would tell her how we wanted to kill people at work. she said he had been treated for depression. they divorced in 2005 robert cummings, an attorney who represents a former girlfriend of cassidy's. >> says his client witness mood swings in said he was bipolar after dating for 2 months cassidy proposed to this woman. she said no, because it was too fast. that is when the attorney says his client began to witness odd things happening with cassid

. >> reporter: source has confirmed to kpix 5 that sam cassidy was facing a disciplinary hearing yesterday at vta over his conduct in the past. tonight, alone santa clara county cruiser blocks access to the railyard a day and a half after the mess shooting that left nine debt plus the shooter. a newly released surveillance video in the top left corner of your screen you can see sam cassidy walking between two buildings in the vta railyard. in between firing off rounds from three different semi automatic handguns. >> with think he fired about 39 rounds. >> reporter: the carnage was spread between two buildings and cassidy knew he was looking for. >> one person he said i'm not going to shoot you and started shooting others. >> reporter: investigators santa clara county, fbi and the atf are methodically searching every square inch of the railyard after an explosives dog keyed on the send yesterday. jeff harp, the agent in charge of the san francisco fbi office says the concern is -traps. >> he worked for the vta for some time. so he knows all the nooks and crannies wrehepolice may look but no

the wall street journal reports that sam cassidy was detained back in 2016 by u.s.gents after a trip to the ssid with notes about how he hated a manifestoesnition inside cassid home which they say he may have rigged to catch fire. joining us now live this afternoon is a state assembly man phil ting. thank you so much for being here. i want to start with this new reporting by the wall street journal. this interaction with the department of homeland security goes back to 2016. as far as you know, is that something that would have been shared with local law enforcement here in the bay area or cassidy's employer, the vta? >> it should have been shared with the local law enforcement. i don't know why it wasn't. it definitely is clearly a red flagnot appear there was any follow-up action taken. is that your understanding of how the interactions with the department implement security work? >> i'm not an expert about homeland security because it is a federal agency but you would hope that when law enforcement sees that kind of red flag that they would take action. too often

an police say they are still investigating the motive that prompted sam cassidy to open fire at his workwednesday. according to his ex-wife, his anger toward colleagues goes back years. his ex-wife said to the associated press that cassidy had a bad temper and would tell her that he wanted to kill people at work. she said before their divorce in 2005, he would come back angry about things that happened at work and says quote, he would get more mad. he would dwell on things. i never believed him and it never happened until now. >> anger is indeed a commonplace emotion. >> reporter: psychologist fernandez is a visiting professor at uc berkeley. his latest research paper examined more than 100 mass shootings between 2000 and 2015 and found that unlike some portrayals of shooters as mentally ill or monsters, many shared one, placed trait. >> in 17% of these cases of mass shootings, there was evidence of anger. these are individuals who are experiencing an emotion that is actually quite commonplace and the difference of course being that they take it to such an extreme. >> reporter: often, ho

but the shooter has been identified as 57 year-old sam cassidy vta employee. no motive has been given for the attack and you see his picture. we do want to give you right now a little bit of time. a timeline of how things went down. we know this is all around 6.30 this morning where 2 buildings at the vta light rail yard were shot at about the same time the shooter's hold went up in flames. so you had. these these 2 crime scenes ultimately playing out simultaneously. >> yeah. and the fbi is involved at this point in their carefully coming through that home to find any shred of evidence, any connectivity with what could happen in the rail yard and also certainly out of an abundance of caution so as not to trip perhaps a booby-trapped. his ex-wife, cecilia nelms telling our partners with the associated press that. >> at times when they were married. he would come home from work saying that he wanted to kill people at work. but she says i never believed them. i never thought it would actually happen until now she says he would talk about things that happened at w

and you can see sam cassidy load up his white pickup truck. he's dressed like he's going to work. he has a black duffel bag. he casually loads up his pickup truck and then he leaves his home at this particular time. everybody is still alive. they didn't know what was going to happen less. then an hour away. we do know that the shots rang out at approximately 6 34 in the morning. that's when authorities scott flooded with 911. calls and then a couple of minutes after they rushed to the vta railyard. they realize this particular place caught on fire. his video of that. they didn't know. i mean, this is all happening. so many moving parts. they didn't know that this home belonged to sam cassidy, especially the fire department that they're not part of the investigators all they cared about was putting out the fire. they put out the fire. they did the connections they realize this home belonged to sam cassidy who has been living here for decades. but if you talk to neighbors, they barely knew him. >> you got to say anything is kind of fire and then. and i was scared. but after the id n

he's been digging into sam cassidy. he joins us live once again this morning are now this afternoon. has time flies here. evan, what's the latest? that's right, mike. as you mentioned, authorities identified this gun men. the suspected gunman as sam james cassidy. he's 57 years old, and he's an employee at that vita facility where the shooting happened. we also learned that he lives at that address where authorities are now investigating a fire earlier right around the same time of the shooting. that's 11, 78 and marin. so is there sort of piecing together what happened here? you know, we're starting to see this picture of maybe a fire was set and then this really horrific, tragic workplace shooting that unfolded. mike and evan, we heard from jeff rosen, the d. a that he confirmed that this cassidy took his own life that wasn't law enforcement that shot and killed him earlier this morning, but nothing pop in. i mean, i know you're just digging into him, but nothing popping on a criminal record wasn't on the radar before

you do have a lot of insight into the gunman, sam cassidy, and the way the tragedy unfolded. but before we get into that and your harrowing experience, i want to honor the nine victims. and i would like to show their pictures. there will be a public vigil outside city hall at 6:00. could you please tell us about one or two of these men that you knew best? >> just a fun loving, straight up guy. and ambee, he was always joking around. and that one guy you baernlted with. bantered with. a ged hearted person. goodhearted person. >> i want to ask you, yesterday you talked first with my colleague. and you said cassidy, the gunman, wasn't shooting randomly. you said he had a specific agenda and targeted certain people. who was he targeting? >> he was targeting the people that he worked with directly. there were many other people in the building. there were -- the people that he shot were people that he interfaced with, worked side by side every day. he didn't come down to my department. we were there. three of us were in our department. i don't know how many people were in the track

you know what, there's so many questions about exactly who this man was, who is sam cassidy.he biggest question a lot of folks. >> have. right now. we still don't know. but fbi agents and the atf they're literally going to be turning over every stone they can in the next 24 to 36 hours to learn more. michael anderson spent nearly 30 years with the fbi and he says those agencies will be flooding the area with resources trying to turn over every stone to learn more about 57 year-old sam cassidy under says. and anderson says that right now there is a lot of collaboration taking place between several agencies, local, state and federal to try and learn more about cassidy and his motives. he says with 2 large crime scenes agents will be very methodical and not only collecting but also cataloging evidence that the scenes he says if needed agents can also use a 360 degree picture as they collect that evidence so they can see the scene asked cassidy saw it as well. in addition to that physical evidence. anderson says the teams will be digging peeling in uncovering every aspect of his

just one lone san jose police car blocking this court where sam cassidy lived.his is all quite a contrast to the scene that unfolded here early today. loading up his truck to head off to work. shortly after, surveillance cameras captured these images, the house burst into flames. heavy smoke billowed from the windows. >> i was gonna play golf this morning. i look outside, it start smoking from outside. my wife told me look at outside it's smoking outside. >> reporter: the flames were so intense, firefighters could not go inside. >> when our unit arrived on-scene, they encountered very heavy fire conditions. we chose to fight the fire defensively from outside the house because of conditions. >> reporter: the mass shooting just 11 miles away. the bomb squad followed by thea, tf and fbi. it soon became clear that this house would become a major crime scene. >> i had no idea those two were correlated. it's reallyo ide that type of stuff happened right across the street from my house. >> reporter: images of bomb technicians showing what appear to be sandbags, perhaps

they also say cassidy appeared to be a hoarder. ktvu sam ruben is live along the street where he lives. and then they say all of this made it difficult process. the evidence? authorities say the sheer volume of stuff was a problem, and they say in some cases, it was hard to tell what was junk and what was a possible explosive device inside sam cassidy's house investigators found in arsenal 25,000 rounds of ammunition. 17 molotov cocktails, assorted gas cans and a dozen shotguns, rifles and handguns stashed all over. you can make your assumptions is that the fact that they be in various locations if the suspect may be needed to access them? this video shows that cassidy had already left for the vita yard when his home caught fire authorities now know how he started it. they found a pot on the stove filled with ammunition and a kitchen filled with accelerants. so it is. likely that the ammunition in that pot would have heated to a point where the powder is inside would have would have detonated and likely united the accelerants in the kitchen

his name is 57 year old sam cassidy. he does not have any major criminal record in santa clara county. several co workers who asked to not be identified, described him as a quiet loner. but in 2009 and ex girlfriend accused him of being mentally physically. and sexually abusive, okay to use amber lee is in the neighborhood where the shooter lived. amber you talked that ex girlfriend tonight. that's right. we're on dagmar court. that's where the suspect lived. his home is located just beyond that red tape. tonight, the ex girlfriend tells me he had a double personality. thistles cell phone video from a neighbor showing smoke pouring out of suspects. sam cassidy's home on and mark chord in san jose wednesday morning around 6 30, his ex girlfriend spoke to me on the condition that i not identify her. they're hurting you so much. i can hurt. you know what? i was baiting him here, the mentally down, she tells me cassidy was mentally unstable, but she never thought he was capable of setting his home on fire, killing eight peop

sam cassidy used 39 millimeter handguns to carry out that mass shooting. had 32 high capacity magazines, some with 12 rounds each today, officials described his house on a mark chord in east and jose as cluttered with belongings, and authorities say these other weapons were found in different areas of the home. various weapons have been located. those weapons were located at different locations within the residents, so they were not all centrally located. you would normally see in a safer closet or something like that. we've seen shotguns, rifles and handguns have been located at the residence. the santa clara county sheriff's office also says they recovered gas cans and suspected molotov cocktails at the home the san jose police and fire department say they are performing their final sweep of that home this afternoon, and they expected neighbors will be allowed to return to their homes later tonight. senate republicans today blocked an effort to form a bipartisan commission to investigate the january 6th attack on the u. s capitol. six republicans joined

just one lone san jose police car blocking this court where sam cassidy lived.his is all quite a contrast to the scene that unfolded here early today. loading up his truck to head off to work. shortly after, surveillance cameras captured these images, the house burst into flames. heavy smoke billowed from the windows. >> i was gonna play golf this morning. i look outside, it start smoking from outside. my wife told me look at outside >>orter: t fme were so intense, firefighters could not go inside. >> when our unit arrived on-scene, they encountered very heavy fire conditions. we chose to fight the fire defensively from outside the house because of conditions. >> reporter: the mass shooting just 11 miles away. the bomb squad followed by thea, tf and fbi. it soon became clear that this house would become a major crime scene. >> i had no idea those two were correlated. it's really had no idea that type of stuff happened right across the street from my house. >> reporter: images of bomb technicians showing what appear to be sandbags, perhaps to buffer detonation. l

this is from the suspect's neighbors home its surveillance video showing sam cassidy getting into his white truck and carrying a black duffel bag ostensibly the guns that he took to work. yeah. that was cassidy's driveway. the vantage point, the security camera was on the neighbor's home across the street. and this other new video just in to the kron 4 news room. it shows the suspect's house on fire. you see all the smoke billowing into the sky. this happened just minutes after the shooting calls came in about a suspicious house fire in southeast san jose a on ag barr court. that is right near the low slot goes golf course a lot going on tonight and we have team coverage tonight of this shooting will first start out with kron four's dan kerman. dance at the command law enforcement officials gave us a briefing a little bit. law enforcement officials gave us a briefing a little bit earlier today. >> basically they're telling us this all began with board of shots fired at 06:30am in the morning. that's when the pta employee a few of the dana fight opened fire on his fellow workers. they'

. >> a co-worker of sam cassidy remembers a gunman is not fitting in with other employees. and tonight we're getting our first look at surveillance video from the vta really are on the morning of the attack. we're going to show it to you in a moment. we will see cassidy in the upper left corner of the screen walking through a parking lot. the santa clara county sheriff's department says he had been a highly disgruntled vta employee for many years while there is still no motive to shooting. investigators say this may have contributed to why he targeted his co-workers. kron four's, michelle kingston dug into more about who cassidy was and found out through court documents said he had a history of domestic violence. yeah. me. to that. >> cecilia nelms remembers the way she was treated during her 10 year marriage to sam cassidy, a gunman who killed 9 of his co-workers at the santa clara valley transportation authority on wednesday says they haven't spoken for more than a decade. they divorced in 2005. so i i just feel like i have to get it out because that. out of control. she

sam. cassidy was a b to employees. they say he took his own life as law enforcement arrived and you could see on this map. how close the rail yard is to the sheriff's department, which is why the response was so quick ktvu jesse gary has been on the scene all day and has the latest force now, jesse frank over the course of the past hour i checked in with the santa clara county sheriff's office to ask if their bomb squad was still at work. they started early this morning in that v ta light rail yard to yard. that's just behind me and off to my left sweeping through making sure there are no explosive devices. they're still at it. they've been doing it all day, and from what i'm told they can keep doing this all into the evening hours because of the amount of land they have to work through two buildings, plus the lot of the yard itself, which contains meet a light rail trains. that's where their house and that's where their repairs so they have to search all of that to make sure it's safe before the corner office. come in

the fbi has been there leading an investigation where sam cassidy allegedly set his own house on fire before heading to the vta facility yesterday. several hours later the whole neighborhood was evacuated over concerns about possible explosives in the house. yesterday we heard from his ex- wife saying the 57-year-old had anger issues but she says he never physically hurt her. he was not a pleasant person. >> not a very friendly person, kept things to himself, did not have friends as far as i know. >> here is some of the last known video of the suspect samuel cassidy getting into his truck just before the shooting yesterday morning. we also heard yesterday from samuel cassidy's ex girlfriend or her lawyer who says they had a volatile off and on relationship about a year after meeting on match.com and the ex girlfriend stated she was victim of several sexual assaults. she disclosed his mood swings got worse with alcohol. his ex-wife said he did talk about harming his co-workers but she never thought it would go this far. we'll keep our eye on that investigation. >> thank you. >>> the sa

this all playing out hours after sam cassidy opened fire at a vta railway, and the search for answers is far from over. >> we're going to be there throughout the night to clear every room and every crevice of that building. >> where the investigation plays out from here. also, we learned so much more about one of the victims who is being hailed a hero for alerting others as the chaos unfolded. "today in the bay" continues right now. >>> and a good morning to you. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia. our entire team has been covering this entire story since it first broke. we went on the air for a day of extended to bring you the latest of all of this unfolding. here is what we know at this hour. the vta light rail facility in downtown san jose where this all happened remains locked down as detectives remain on the scene. >> the gunman killed nine people before turning the begun on himself. the ninth victim who was in critical condition at valley medical center died. at 10:00 this morning vta will hold a news conference and will share more information about all of the employ

again, we're learning so much more about sam cassidy. >> pictures from inside gunman. sam cassidy's home showing an arsenal of weapons, painting a darker and decidedly more disturbing picture of the south bay resident who murdered 9 colleagues at the vta railyard wednesday morning. sheriff's authorities say evidence gathered inside his home shows cassidy purposely set a sentencing home on fire cooking gasoline in a pot full of ammunition surrounded by accelerants before driving away and leaving for work. a neighbor tells me it is haunting. she walked by 4 decades housed a man full of so much hatred. well, i passed by his house as they walked the neighborhood so many times never thought about it. this is a quiet neighborhood that people are our respectful and friendly has lived here for over 40 years and it's really, really disturbing and heartbreaking to realize that someone. such as this man could be right here in our midst. and we didn't even know it shortly after leaving his home cassidy stranded into the yard and began shooting. then turned the gun on himself. it t

we now know border officials detained sam cassidy five years ago. while he was returning from the philippines. more on this in just a moment. >>> good morning everyone it is friday, may 28, you're watching abc7 mornings live on abc7, who live in wherever you stream, we start the 6 o'clock hour with a check of the forecast with neurologist mike nicco. >>> good morning, thanks for joining us and let's take a look at what's going on outside. you can see we've got a pretty south seabreeze that is going to keep us pretty comfortable not only today but tomorrow and you can see it is spreading low clouds across many neighborhoods, more so than just about any day this week. a little missed as you head through the hills, 70s from fremont to palo alto southward and 60s around the bay, 50s at the coast but it's going to get dangerously hot starting sunday. right now in excessive heat watch for solano county, the rest of the forecast coming up. >>> developing news this morning there is new information about explosives found inside the burned out home of the gun

they had no idea that this house was connected to sam cassidy. they put out the fire and then that's when they realized this house belongs to the 57 year-old man who has been here for decades. but if you talk to his neighbors, they barely knew him. >> you got to say anything is kind of fire and then. and i was scared. but and after the id norm. he's live along. i never see his friends and never see of families and an is coming with, you know, his house is a live along every 20 years. >> okay. back live. now you can see there's a police officer there. there's another one right there behind this initial suv that sparked parallel to us. and then there's a squad car. hard to see from our vantage point. but there is a squad car park directly across the street from his home. it's the one with a black car parked in front. the garage is open. that is preserved. they want it exactly the way he left it before the fire. of course, the fire obviously did something to it. but they want to preserve it because they will bring in investigators from the police de

come to that. >> cecilia now owns 4 members the way she was treated during her 10 year marriage to sam cassidy, the gunman who killed 9 of his co-workers at the santa clara valley transportation authority on wednesday says they haven't spoken for more than a decade. they divorced in 2005. so i i just feel like i have to get it out because that. out of control. she says he talked about killing people at work. he'd come home angry and resentful. >> will talk about. some the don't do in some people is slack >> a biden administration official says cassidy spoke of hating his workplace while he was detained by us customs officers after 2016 trip to the philippines. the memo did not say how long cassidy was held by border officials, but it did show notes from cassidy on how he hated where he worked and that he had books on terrorism. but when he was asked whether he had issues with people at work. he said no. sam was always on the outside. he was never in the group. he was never. >> excepted by anybody there he was always that that guy that. never per taking in anything that the people were doing yo

video footage showing the gunman sam cassidy, calmly walking from one building to another with a duffelilled with guns and ammunition. detectives confirmed that cassidy killed co workers in two different buildings. for taking his own life as deputies and police officers approached. he did go into building be where we understand he normally works and has a locker and from there, thean student took place shortly afterwards. dozens of e t a light rail operators in mechanics gathered for an open forum at union headquarters in campbell earlier today. there they shared their grief and also concerns. vita is offering support to the families of those who were killed. we wanted to reach out to the families of our fallen brothers and pay our condolences to them and let them know that we're there for them. evita is denying a report that claims that cassidy faced a disciplinary hearing on the day of the attack for alleged racist comments. well, it's fair to say that san jose is still in shock tonight. a vigil last night drew 2000 people, and city hall is still a magnet for those who want to pay the

departamento del alguacil del condado de santa clara difundiÓ nueves imÁgenes en donde se observa a sam cassidydisparaba. esta tarde fuimos a una vigilia frente al ayuntamiento de san josÉ para recordar a las vÍctimas. ramÓn hablÓ con algunos familiares. ramÓn: gracias y buenas noches. decenas de personas se unieron por solidaridad, tambiÉn empleados del vta. tenemos estas imÁgenes en memoria de las vÍctimas. ♪ ♪ [mÚsica] ♪ ♪ [canta en inglÉs] ramÓn: la explanada del ayuntamiento de san josÉ estuvo abarrotado por numerosas personas que fueron a dar apoyo. >> esto pasÓ en nuestra ciudad. en quÉ ciudad sucederÁ maÑana? nosotros crecimos aquÍ. queremos ayudar a las familias que sufren. ramÓn: los familiares de una de las vÍctimas no asistieron, pero hicieron llegar un mensaje. adriÁn, uno de los desaparecidos, tratÓ de evitar la tragedia, pero no puedo. >> adriÁn estaba en el cuarto cuando iniciÓ el tiroteo y ellos se abalanzaron a avisar, pero perdiÓ su vida. ramÓn: familiares visiblemente afectados compartÍan su sentir. >> el mensaje es que no pase mÁs. espero que haya un control de armas. hay q

neighbors are saying about him. >> reporter: one neighbor didn't have very nice things to say about sam cassidy. cassidy was 57 years old, as we've been reporting, worked for the vta for the past several years and lived in the home behind me on angmar court just off mclaughlin in south san jose. san jose police officers are out here guarding the scene not letting people in unless they're a resident. this house caught fire yesterday morning around the same time that cassidy opened fire on his fellow co-workers. investigators are looking into whether cassidy used a timed device to start the fire at his home so that it would coincide with the shooting. a neighbor tells us cassidy lived by himself. as i mentioned, that he went friendly. cassidy's ex-wife tells the ap that about ten years ago cassidy had spoken about killing people at work. this morning on the "today" show sheriff laurie smith of the santa clara county sheriff's office says law enforcement is still trying to figure out the motive for yesterday's shooting. >> we don't have that information now. obviously we're looking into that. what

. >> authority to identify the gunman as sam cassidy. an employee of the transit system. christina coleman joins us from los angeles as we learn more about the victims. >> the one person who was critically injured his died overnight. there attended including the suspect who authorities say took his own life. the victims range in age from 29 to 63 years old. they were employees at the light rail facility for the valley transportation authority in santa clara county, they provided bus and rail services throughout the most populated county in the san francisco bay area and continue to do so during the pandemic. >> these folks were heroes during covid 19. the buses never stopped running, they kept at work and we are really calling on them for a second time to survive such a terrible terrible tragedy. >> the shooting happened during a shift change yesterday morning when deputies responded, firefighters battling a house fire at the suspect's property. the suspect was identified as 57-year-old sam cassidy who worked at the facility since at least 2012, his ex-wife divorced him i

video from the vta light railyard shows 57-year-old sam cassidy casually walking between the two buildingshere he gunned down nine of his coworkers wednesday morning. >> we think he fired about 39 rounds. >> reporter: cassidy picked out his victims. who would live and who would die. >> one person he said i will not shoot you and started shooting others. >> reporter: investigators searched cassidy san jose home which had partially collapsed after cassidy set it on fire yesterday. a federal official confirms cassidy was detained by border patrol and customs in 2016 after he entered the country from the philippines because he had writings about terrorism and hating his workplace. the suspects ex-wife said cassidy had a temper and talked about killing coworkers a decade ago. >> he was very quiet. he thinks of himself. >> reporter: the neighbors doorbell camera caught cassidy on tape as he loaded his pickup before heading to work yesterday morning. the sheriff said he was armed with three semi automatic handguns and 3212 round magazines. >> from the time we got a shots fired call to six minutes

. >> reporter: this is day two of the investigation at the home of the gunman sam cassidy, still a significant presence of federal agents from atf and fbi as well as san jose bomb squad and san jose fire as with the. whatever safety threat existed yesterday. sources tell us it appears cassidy used gasoline to start the fire yesterday and that they found hundreds of rounds of ammunition inside. santa clara county sheriff also confirms investigators found bomb making materials inside the home but the nature and qua unknown. there is fire damage to the front of the vestibule but it looks like flames did not penetrate the roof. this view of the backyard of the house shows more significant damage towards a rear entrance. neighbors nearby are still in shock and disbelief. >> what the hell? that's crazy, just across the street. you never know. >> reporter: what kind of person does this? >> i am glad to feel he is not here. i don't feel anyone should die but if you are killing eight people and will blow up other people's houses, it's probably better for the community that you are no longer here, you k