Police in Santa Clara, California have identified the gunman who killed eight people on Wednesday at a California rail yard serving Silicon Valley.
The shooter, who was 57 years old, was also dead, authorities said, initially claiming his cause of death was undetermined.
A Santa Clara County sheriff’s spokesman said Cassidy was an employee of the Valley Transportation Authority.
The authority provides bus, light rail, and other transit services throughout Santa Clara County, the largest county in the Bay Area.
CNN reports that the investigation is ongoing, and officials have not yet released a possible motive.
According to local NBC station, Cassidy attacked San Jose’s VTA Light Rail Facility near the airport around 6:30 a.m. local time during a union gathering.
He then killed himself, according to the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office and local NBC station.
Cassidy was an employee of the VTA, the network reported.
The outlet reported the gunman set his own home on fire before driving to the facility and there are eight fatalities but it’s not clear if that number includes the shooter.
Edward Cassidy, 88-year-old dad of Samuel Cassidy, told The Daily Beast that he was shocked by the news, as his son “seemed completely himself” in the days before the shooting.
Deputy Russell Davis, the public information officer for the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office, would only say during a news briefing that “multiple people” were dead or injured, including employees of the facility, and the gunman was also deceased, eliminating an active public safety threat
