*Sheriff's Office reports that the shooter is deceased.
By Pamela Cruz
On Wednesday morning, a shooting was reported at a maintenance facility of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in San Jose, where, so far, local police authorities have reported that there are several victims, while the perpetrator is dead.
The exact number of people killed in the fatal attack is not yet known, nor is the number of people injured or the extent of their injuries, said VTA spokeswoman Brandi Childress at the time.
The sheriff's office Santa Clara County Sheriff tweeted at 8:08 a.m. that the "suspect is down," and Childress later confirmed that the shooter had died, however, various media outlets are reporting that the shooter may have committed suicide.
The suspect's cause of death has not yet been made public.
Following the shooting in San Jose VTA employees have been evacuated from the Guadalupe maintenance yard and county sheriff's deputies remain on the scene, while the meeting with family members is taking place at the sheriff's headquarters at 55 W. Younger Ave.
Notably, around 6:30 a.m., San Jose police responded to the VTA Guadalupe facility on West Younger Avenue on reports of an active shooter, police said.
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