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Anderson Cooper 360

At least 8 killed in San Jose shooting

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

At least eight people were killed when a gunman opened fire at the Valley Transportation Authority rail yard in San Jose, California. The shooter, who was a VTA employee, is also dead. Jonathan is a videographer who went to the shooting as it was unfolding. He tells Anderson Cooper he lives within a mile radius of the rail yard and thought it was a drill until he saw law enforcement bringing people out of the facility. Plus, prosecutors investigating former President Trump have told a witness to prepare for grand jury testimony. Former federal prosecutor Elliot Williams tells AC360 “it’s clear the district attorney believes there is evidence of a crime.”   Airdate: May 26, 2021   Guests: Jonathan Elliot Williams To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And good evening, we begin tonight with the shooting at a public transit rail yard in San Jose,

0:05.0

California that ended with eight lives lost plus that of the gunmen.

0:08.6

For the families of the victims, tonight is just the beginning of what will be almost

0:12.9

unimaginable pain and sadness, and that pain will be uniquely and indelibly theirs.

0:18.5

For the country what happened today was the 230 second mass shooting of the year, according

0:22.8

to the data from the gun violence archive.

0:25.6

It was the 17th since last Wednesday, California's governor spoke to that reality a short time

0:30.5

ago.

0:33.3

Here we are in the United States of America, or experiencing something just not experienced

0:38.2

anywhere else in the world.

0:39.6

There is a sameness to this and that numbness I think is something we're all feeling, but

0:45.2

it begs the damn question what the hell is going on in the United States of America.

0:49.0

The hell is wrong with us.

0:51.2

Well, CNN stands time and joins us now from the scene.

0:56.6

DEN, what do we know?

0:58.0

Anderson, as usual, the main question is why?

1:00.2

What would cause this shooter to go across the street, target his own co-workers, shoot

1:04.8

and kill them?

1:05.8

At this point, authorities have not established a clear cut motive.

1:08.5

What I can tell you is that authorities did recover multiple weapons at the scene.

1:12.2

They haven't said what the making model of those weapons were, but it seems clear that

1:16.0

he wanted to inflict as much carnage as possible before taking his own life.

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