A year after an employee shot and killed nine coworkers at a VTA rail yard, the family of one of the victims filed a lawsuit, alleging negligence and wrongful death by the transit agency, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office and a private security firm.
, the family of one of the victims filed a lawsuit Thursday, alleging negligence and wrongful death by the transportation agency, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office and a private security firm by failing to address the gunman’s history of violent threats or provide adequate security.
Samuel James Cassidy, 57, shot the men one by one inside a rail yard after he arrived for work on May 26, 2021 with three 9 mm handguns and 32 high-capacity magazines. He fired a total of 39 bullets, killing nine workers before he turned the gun on himself as deputies closed in. The agency later released more than 200 pages of emails and other documents that showed the gunman was the subject of four investigations into his workplace conduct, and after one verbal altercation a colleague worried that he could “go postal.”
The transit agency “knew, and had experienced, Cassidy’s repeated pattern of insubordination. They were also aware of numerous verbal altercations Cassidy had with coworkers on at least four separate occasions, in which SCVTA failed to adequately investigate and/or discipline Cassidy for any of these separate incidents,” said the lawsuit filed by the family of Lars Kepler Lane, who had worked at the VTA since 2001 and had three children.
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