Mass Shootings

The City of San Jose and the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) are getting ready to mark a grim anniversary. Thursday will mark one year since a disgruntled employee shot and killed nine of his co-workers at the VTA light rail yard.         

In a pre-Game 4 Western Conference finals news conference Tuesday afternoon, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr didn't want to talk about basketball.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday issued a statement on the mass shooting at a Texas elementary school where the gunman killed 14 children and a teacher. Gov. Greg Abbott said the 18-year-old gunman was dead. She condemned the shooting as a “cold-blooded massacre," adding that the act was "monstrous."

At the White House, Tuesday, President Joe Biden put a bullseye on hate, following the Buffalo massacre of 10 Black people.

Faith and community leaders gathered on Monday in San Francisco to respond to the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.

A gunman in military-style clothing opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in what authorities called a "hate crime and racially motived violent extremism," killing 10 people and wounding three others before being taken in custody Saturday afternoon, law enforcement officials said.

VTA made the decision to demolish Building B at their Guadalupe Light Rail Yard, so employees, especially those traumatized by last year's mass shooting, would never have to go back there.

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority crews on Wednesday began demolition of a building at a light-rail yard in San Jose where last year a disgruntled VTA employee fatally shot several of his co-workers before killing himself.

District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said Tuesday that Smiley Martin, Dandrae Martin and Mtula Payton have been charged with murder in the slayings. All three are eligible for death penalty, but that decision has not been made yet.

Smiley Martin, one of the suspects of the Sacramento mass shooting, appeared in court Friday on charges of possession of a machine gun and possession of a firearm by a felon.

It has been a tradition in Gilroy for 42-years. But the Gilroy Garlic Festival will not be returning this year and may never again be what it once was.

Newly filed court documents provide for the first time a detailed account of how a gunfight over an unspecified gang dispute unfolded in downtown Sacramento earlier this month, leaving 6 dead and a dozen wounded.

Sacramento police have identified an additional suspect in a mass shooting where the suspects are alleged to have street-gang affiliations. 

A community mourning the aftermath of last week's deadly mass shooting in Sacramento, gathered Sunday. They are leading an effort to end to gun violence in their city.

Sacramento police said at least five gunmen from at least two gangs opened fire, but so far only three men have been arrested in the investigation and none has been charged with homicide.