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2021 San Jose shooting

mass shooting at a rail yard in San Jose, California, United States, on May 26, 2021; the deadliest mass shooting in San Francisco Bay Area history
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Summary

2021 San Jose shooting is a mass shooting[1]. It draws 168 Wikipedia views per month (mass_shooting category, ranking #80 of 197).[2]

Key Facts

  • 2021 San Jose shooting is located in San Jose[3].
  • 2021 San Jose shooting is in the country of United States[4].
  • 2021 San Jose shooting's video is recorded as CCTV footage of 57-year-old Samuel Cassidy leaving this morning with a duffel bag for the VTA Rail Yard in San Jose, California.webm[5].
  • 2021 San Jose shooting's image is recorded as VTA railyard after 2021 San Jose shooting 04.jpg[6].
  • 2021 San Jose shooting's instance of is recorded as mass shooting[7].
  • 2021 San Jose shooting's instance of is recorded as murder–suicide[8].
  • 2021 San Jose shooting's location is recorded as Guadalupe Light Rail Division[9].
  • 2021 San Jose shooting's Commons category is recorded as 2021 San Jose shooting[10].
  • 2021 San Jose shooting's point in time is recorded as +2021-05-26T00:00:00Z[11].
  • 2021 San Jose shooting's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 37.354166666666664, 'lon': -121.90833333333333}[12].
  • 2021 San Jose shooting's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+10'}[13].
  • 2021 San Jose shooting's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+9'}[14].
  • 2021 San Jose shooting's number of injured is recorded as {'amount': '+1'}[15].
  • 2021 San Jose shooting's number of injured is recorded as {'amount': '+0'}[16].
  • 2021 San Jose shooting's number of perpetrators is recorded as {'amount': '+1'}[17].
  • 2021 San Jose shooting's perpetrator is recorded as Samuel James Cassidy[18].
  • 2021 San Jose shooting's Gun Violence Archive ID is recorded as 2015730[19].

Why It Matters

2021 San Jose shooting draws 168 Wikipedia views per month (mass_shooting category, ranking #80 of 197).[2] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

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  11. [13] ↑ . sfchronicle.com. Retrieved . sfchronicle.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . apnews.com. Retrieved . apnews.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . mercurynews.com. Retrieved . mercurynews.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . mercurynews.com. Retrieved . mercurynews.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . mercurynews.com. mercurynews.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . mercurynews.com. mercurynews.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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