A San Jose, Calif., man has been arrested for allegedly taking pictures and killing his coworker over an unpaid debt.
On Sunday, Sept. 22, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Workplace named Duc Minh Bui, 33, as the worker who was taken into custody close to his San Jose house simply after midday that day.
The sufferer was recognized by KTVU as Regulus “Reggie” Teotico, 45. In keeping with the information station, Bui is now going through a first-degree homicide cost.
“Proof suggests Bui is solely accountable for the sufferer’s demise. Each labored at VTA [Valley Transportation Authority],” a tweet shared by the sheriff’s workplace acknowledged.
The lethal taking pictures passed off on Friday, Sept. 20, on the Chaboya Division Yard, the social media publish added.
In a previous post shared by the sheriff’s workplace within the early morning hours of Saturday, Sept. 21, SCCS mentioned they had been “actively investigating a taking pictures that occurred on the @VTA Chaboya Division Yard.”
“One sufferer was concerned and has been pronounced deceased. Our Murder and Crime Scene Detectives are actively investigating the crime scene,” the tweet concluded.
Teotico had been employed with the VTA for 10 years, and would hang around with Bui outdoors of labor, KTVU reported on Monday, Sept. 23, citing Captain Sugey Jaimez.
Santa Clara County Sheriff
“They had been recognized to take part in the identical actions outdoors of their VTA employment,” Sheriff’s Capt. Sugey Jaimez mentioned, the Mercury News reported. “We consider the motive needed to do with cash owed between the 2 from their betting actions, which had nothing to do with their employment.”
When hearth and emergency personnel arrived on South seventh Avenue close to Tully Highway in San Jose, they discovered a person affected by gunshot accidents; he was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
In keeping with Jaimez, there have been no warning indicators that the suspect was planning to hurt anybody.
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“So far as we all know, there (are) no crimson flags,” she mentioned. “He has no prison historical past.”
VTA common supervisor Carolyn Gonot remembered Teotico as “a form, hard-working driver who was well-known amongst his colleagues.” She added that he was the daddy of two teenage kids.
In a separate article printed by KTVU on Saturday, the information station referenced a 2021 incident through which a disgruntled worker on the close by Guadalupe Gentle Rail Yard on West Youthful Avenue shot and killed 9 of his coworkers earlier than he then killed himself.
“We had been rebuilding after the tragic incident of three years in the past, and so for many individuals, that is reliving one of many worst experiences they’ve ever had of their life,” County Supervisor Cindy Chavez, chair of the VTA board of administrators, mentioned Monday. “That’s why the psychological well being companies, that’s why us wrapping our arms round one another is so essential.”
