According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 230 incidents of mass shooting across America this year. According to this organization, mass shooting is called an incident in which four or more people are shot.
Officials say that the employees here are also among those who died.
The suspect who carried out this attack is also an employee of this place and he has also died.
According to local time, this incident occurred at quarter to seven in the morning. Authorities say the suspect set his house on fire before executing the attack.
What do you know so far? (America)
According to local broadcaster CBS, the firing started during a meeting of railway employees. When the police reached the occasion, the bullets were still on.
Nine people have died, including the suspect who carried out the attack. Some US media reports say that the gunman committed suicide, but the police have not confirmed it yet.
Officials have been told to affiliate CBS News that the gunman’s name was Samuel Cassidy, who was 57 years old.
A spokesman for the Santa Clara County Sheriff Department said that “there was no encounter between the suspect and the police.” They said that they are now believing that the suspect shot himself.
Before the shootout, a fire broke out at the suspect’s home. Now it is being investigated whether the suspect has set this fire himself before executing the attack.
San Jose Fire Department spokeswoman Erica Ray said that there are many crime scenes in this incident. That is, the attacker has fired at people in different places. California Governor Gavi Newsom lamented the incident and said that this incident is a new link in the incidents of firing in America.
In a press conference, he said, “We recover from an incident and then such an incident happens and this cycle goes on. When are we going to curb this? When will we give up our weapons?”
The White House has also mourned the incident and expressed condolences to the families of the victims.
A White House spokeswoman said President Biden has said that “the country is struggling with an epidemic of gun violence, firing incidents and daily firing incidents do not become the headlines of newspapers.”
He said that the President of america has appealed to Congress to take quick steps to prevent such incidents and said that the bill should be passed to tighten the rules related to buying guns.
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