Bus Driver Killed Coworker Over Playing Debt, Authorities Say

A San Jose, Calif., man has been arrested for allegedly capturing 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 residence simply after midday that day. 

The sufferer was recognized by KTVU as Regulus “Reggie” Teotico, 45. In accordance with the information station, Bui is now going through a first-degree homicide cost. 

“Proof suggests Bui is solely chargeable for the sufferer’s loss of life. Each labored at VTA [Valley Transportation Authority],” a tweet shared by the sheriff’s workplace acknowledged. 

The lethal capturing befell on Friday, Sept. 20, on the Chaboya Division Yard, the social media put up added. 

In a earlier put up shared by the sheriff’s workplace within the early morning hours of Saturday, Sept. 21, SCCS stated they had been “actively investigating a capturing 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.

“They had been identified to take part in the identical actions outdoors of their VTA employment,” Sheriff’s Capt. Sugey Jaimez stated, the Mercury Information reported. “We imagine 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 Street in San Jose, they discovered a person affected by gunshot accidents; he was pronounced useless on the scene.

In accordance 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 stated. “He has no legal historical past.”

VTA basic supervisor Carolyn Gonot remembered Teotico as “a sort, 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 during which a disgruntled worker on the close by Guadalupe Mild 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, stated Monday. “That’s why the psychological well being companies, that’s why us wrapping our arms round one another is so essential.”