SOUTH BAY OFFICIALS this week mourned the one-year anniversary of the shooting at the Valley Transportation Authority’s San Jose maintenance yard that left nine VTA employees dead. On the same day, eight of the families affected filed a lawsuit against VTA, Santa Clara County, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office and the security company tasked with protecting the rail yard.

Officials with the VTA and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 265, which represents VTA workers, held a candlelight vigil Thursday morning to remember the nine workers who were killed at the rail maintenance yard on West Younger Avenue.

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Eli covers public health, transportation and state politics for the Bay City News Foundation, serves as the main editor of the Public Health and COVID-19 Information Hub and assists with Local News Matters' social media strategy. He has also previously covered local politics in San Diego County as well as college and professional sports across the Bay Area.