Cecilia Nelms, the San Jose shooter’s ex-wife, fought back tears as she recalled how often the disturbed man voiced out his plans to slaughter his colleagues throughout their 10-year marriage.
“I never believed him, and it never happened. Until now,” Nelms said. “He could dwell on things.”
The woman said that Samuel Cassidy was “bipolar” and suffered “violent mood swings” like he had “two sides.”
“When he was in a good mood, he was a great guy. When he was mad, he was mad.”
She added that her former husband did not have a single friend and repeatedly complained that he was being given harder tasks than his colleagues at the VTA.
“I would listen but hardly ever ask any questions because I didn’t know these people.”
She admitted that the man she didn’t see since their divorce in 2005 “could be mad and probably mean” but she “never thought he would do this.”
The 54-year-old fatally shot nine people Wednesday during a union meeting at his rail yard workplace before taking his own life.
