[SoCal Rich]

The nearly 4 1/2 minutes of footage is from one deputy who arrived minutes after the first shooting reports and while shots were still being fired at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus and rail yard in San Jose, where 57-year-old S. C. opened fire before killing himself.

A “contact team” of deputies and San Jose police officers was immediately formed to find the gunman, who was reported to be inside a building and armed with a handgun.

The body camera footage shows the team cautiously climbing stairs to the third floor, where a VTA supervisor comes out with arms raised and hands over his keycard so officers can get inside the building.

The five-member team then sweeps into the building, guns raised, using gun-mounted flashlights as they pass through rooms and corridors to a dispatch center.

Within minutes, they hear a gunshot, then another, followed by two more. As they come to another door, one of the team looks through a small window and says: “I’ve got somebody down” inside. The team opens the door and somebody shouts “Let me see your hands!”

The footage shows a man slumped in a chair near a stairwell with a gun in his hand. He is across from a dispatch center door with a window shattered by gunfire.

The gunman had shot himself under the chin then put the gun to the side of his head, the sheriff said.

It wasn’t clear whether he knew that law enforcement officers were closing in on him or not, but he may have seen their flashlights and heard them yelling to each other as they determined where the shooter and victims were as they moved through the building, Smith said.

Smith said her office used an active shooter protocol advocated by a lieutenant who had been in Colorado during the 1999 Columbine school mass shooting there. Smith said law enforcement had been training together.

The deputies and officers “hardly spoke a word to each other” when they entered the building because “they knew what their job was,” she said, adding that they showed extraordinary courage.

“There were over 100 VTA employees on site that morning, and I believe the bravery of all of law enforcement personnel really prevented the loss of additional life,” she said.

[Intratec]

Looks like dude popped himself right before they got in there.

[niknik]

Fucking coward. They should take his body and throw it in the landfill. As with all "mass shooters",.

[thenewporter]

Great post, too bad they blurred the loser's body out though.

[SimoneFlen']

Nine victims were fatally killed on Wednesday including Abdolvahab Alaghmandan, Adrian Balleza, Alex Fritch, Jesus Hernandez III. Bottom row, from left, Lars Lane, Paul Megia, Timothy Romo, Michael Rudometkin and Taptejdeep Singh

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[SolonJhee]

But he had such soft gentle eyes....

[-NocturnalPulse-]

Respect for them going in there to take care of business. Too bad the asshole didn’t just off himself to save everyone the grief

[docfr8]

Only lamers do shit like this

[Pr0_X]

Spooky video.

Theres a erie vibe to this one like most mass shooting videos.

Sucks when someone's mental health has a impact on everyone else around them.

[AngelAssassin]

That speaks to the serious lack of mental health care, and coverage, in our country!
All these videos should make people mad and want to fix these problems!!!
But it won’t.