Police Release Dramatic Body Camera Video of Rail Yard Shooting

In this image from body camera footage, deputies approach a set of doors with their weapons drawn inside a building at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus and rail yard, in San Jose, Calif., on May 26, 2021. Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office via AP
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SAN JOSE, Calif.—A gunman who killed nine co-workers at a Northern California rail yard shot himself twice in the head as sheriff’s deputies raced into a building, according to authorities who on Tuesday released body camera footage of the tense encounter.

The nearly four-and-a-half minutes of footage is from one deputy who arrived minutes after the first shooting reports and while shots were still being fired at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus and rail yard in San Jose, where 57-year-old Samuel Cassidy opened fire before killing himself.