{"id":549798,"date":"2021-06-02T15:36:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T19:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=549798"},"modified":"2021-06-02T15:36:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T19:36:28","slug":"extraordinary-courage-bodycam-shows-officers-close-in-on-mass-shooter-who-killed-9-in-san-jose-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/extraordinary-courage-bodycam-shows-officers-close-in-on-mass-shooter-who-killed-9-in-san-jose-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Extraordinary\u2019 Courage: Bodycam Shows Officers Close-In On Mass Shooter Who Killed 9 In San Jose Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fextraordinary-courage-bodycam-shows-officers-close-in-on-mass-shooter-who-killed-9-in-san-jose-workplace%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=549798&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Santa-Clara-Sherrif.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Five law enforcement officers demonstrated \u201cextraordinary\u201d and \u201cexceptional\u201d courage when they closed in on a mass shooter who killed nine people at a San Jose workplace while hearing gun shots go off, a sheriff\u2019s department official <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BKFLfJCod1M\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> during a Tuesday press conference.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Body camera footage of the incident, released publicly Tuesday, shows two sheriff\u2019s department personnel and three San Jose police officers arriving at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority and making contact with the shooter in less than 4 and a half minutes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The shooter, 57, whose name has been withheld per Daily Wire policy, is believed to have killed himself after realizing law enforcement were closing in on his location.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The footage has been described below:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Law enforcement arrived at the Santa Clara Transportation Authority shortly after 6:30 am, after receiving calls about shots fired within the workplace. Within minutes, a sheriff\u2019s sergeant, one sheriff\u2019s deputy, and three police officers arrived at the building.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLet\u2019s go,\u201d multiple law enforcement officers can be heard saying at once, as they set off, guns drawn, in the direction of a staircase on the outside of the multi-story building.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Within 45 seconds, they surround the stairs. The deputy, wearing the body camera and holding a rifle, leads the way up to the third story. At the top of the stairs \u2014 now two minutes after they arrived \u2014 a door opens. The officers shout \u201cput your hands up.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A man emerges from the door and says he is a supervisor. He gives the contact team his key card so that they can get into the building. The team, still led by the sheriff\u2019s deputy, passes through the door into a narrow break room. Within seconds, they make their way to a door at the other end. \u201cI\u2019m going to swing it open, you ready,\u201d asks one officer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He opens the door, and the room is dark. The officers make their way across it with flashlights. \u201cI\u2019m clear right,\u201d says the deputy with the bodycam, as he moves forward, looking under office desks with his rifle-mounted flashlight. It\u2019s now been three minutes since they set out for the stairs. The deputy says, \u201cWe need that keycard over here bro.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A loud single gunshot is heard in another room. One of them says \u201coh, s***,\u201d and the deputy appears to instinctively move in the direction of the sound. They move toward the sound as one of them radios \u201cshots fired: third floor.\u201d Seconds later, they\u2019re at a double door at the end of the room. A window pane on the door has a bullet hole in it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Looking through the window pane, the deputy says \u201cI\u2019ve got somebody down in front of me.\u201d The team opens the door, and the sergeant shouts, \u201clet me see your hands.\u201d Slowly, they move forward towards a man by a stairwell in a chair. He is the shooter, and dead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The footage below, which is disturbing, depicts the law enforcement response as described above:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Santa Clara County Sheriff&#039;s Office releases VTA mass shooting bodycam footage\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GS7iGJkEh9A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Santa Clara Sheriff Laurie Smith noted the training officers receive, saying the contact team \u201chardly spoke a word to each other\u201d in executing their mission. \u201cThey knew what their job was, they did their job, and actually then confronted the suspect that took his own life,\u201d she said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis was a tragic loss of nine people, and we all grieve. There were over a hundred VTA employees on-site that morning, and I believe the bravery of all law enforcement personnel really prevented the loss of additional life,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Santa Clara County Coroner\u2019s office identified the victims as <\/span><span>Paul Delacruz Megia, 42, Taptejdeep Singh, 36, Adrian Balleza, 29, Jose Dejesus Hernandez, 35, Timothy Michael Romo, 49, Michael Joseph Rudometkin, 40, Abdolvahab Alaghmandan, 63, Lars Kepler Lane, 63, and Alex Ward Fritch, 49, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/san-jose-shootings-873c4d8b0189f3f985ab3bc31ae5837f\"><span>according<\/span><\/a><span> to the Associated Press.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-05-28\/victims-in-san-jose-mass-shooting-may-have-been-targeted-sheriff-says\"><span>The Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/a><span>, officials say the shooter was armed with three 9-millimeter handguns and nearly three dozen magazines holding 12 rounds each.\u00a0<\/span><span>Law enforcement officials have said the shooter was a \u201cdisgruntled employee.\u201d The motive for the shooting is not clear, and remains under investigation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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