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Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center

Postby Grayskies on Fri May 31, 2019 7:21 pm

12 dead, 6 injured in shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center
Alissa Skelton, Stacy Parker, and Mike Connors
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VIRGINIA BEACH
A longtime city employee shot and killed 11 people and injured six others after opening fire late Friday afternoon in the public works building where he worked, police said. The man was then killed by officers after firing at them.

One officer was shot during the exchange but was saved by his bulletproof vest, Police Chief James Cervera said during a news conference a couple of hours after the incident.

Henley said she's never seen a situation like this before at the Municipal Center, adding that security has recently been "beefed up" in the City Hall building as a result of shooting incidents across the nation, but that some of the other municipal buildings do not take the same security measures.

https://pilotonline.com/news/government ... 25d5e.html

The story is worth reading tho not a lot of info to be had.

As always Thoughts and Prayers to the victims, friends and families.
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Re: Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center

Postby Ghost on Fri May 31, 2019 7:37 pm

Does it mention the drugs he was on or the other signs that he had mental issues prior to the shooting?
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Re: Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center

Postby Grayskies on Fri May 31, 2019 9:14 pm

Ryan Saavedra@RealSaavedra wrote:BREAKING: Virginia Beach Police Chief James Cervera states that the attacker in the Virginia Beach tragedy used a handgun and reloaded multiple times.

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status ... 6329792513

No Evil Black Rifle, doesn't fit the Left's narrative, probably will be buried by the Fake News...
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Re: Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center

Postby bstrawse on Fri May 31, 2019 9:34 pm

Chief: “the shooter was armed with a gun with an attached sound suppressor and extended magazines, enabling him to fire many rounds and engage four police officers in what the chief described as a “long-term gun battle” down building hallways.”
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Re: Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center

Postby Grayskies on Fri May 31, 2019 9:53 pm

Chief also said they would mention the suspects name only once, there after to be referred to as "the suspect". :)
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Re: Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center

Postby LarryFlew on Fri May 31, 2019 11:13 pm

There goes any hope on suppressors. From the Dims that's all they need is one time use.
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Re: Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center

Postby Ghost on Sat Jun 01, 2019 5:18 am

bstrawse wrote:Chief: “the shooter was armed with a gun with an attached sound suppressor and extended magazines, enabling him to fire many rounds and engage four police officers in what the chief described as a “long-term gun battle” down building hallways.”

They also said it was a .45 cal handgun and the police located him via the sound of gun fire. A suppressed .45 is pretty quiet since it’s a subsonic handgun round.
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Re: Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center

Postby bstrawse on Sat Jun 01, 2019 6:47 am

LarryFlew wrote:There goes any hope on suppressors. From the Dims that's all they need is one time use.


That ship sailed when the dems took back the US House last November.
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Re: Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center

Postby Lumpy on Sat Jun 01, 2019 9:35 am

Massacre committed with handgun = we MUST ban assault weapons! :roll:
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Re: Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center

Postby LarryFlew on Sat Jun 01, 2019 11:47 pm

"He shot a woman walking out to go home and then used his access badge to begin shooting indiscriminately at people in offices, according to the official. He fired shots on all three floors as workers scrambled for cover."

Apparently we will need to ban access badges although I don't know how many rounds they hold.

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Re: Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center

Postby Grayskies on Sun Jun 02, 2019 6:19 pm

Virginia Beach gunman gave resignation before shooting, was in ‘good standing,’ authorities say
Stephen Sorace at Fox News wrote:The Virginia Beach shooter who killed 12 people and wounded several others in a municipal complex on Friday had submitted his resignation earlier that morning, officials said Sunday.

The gunman, identified as 40-year-old [Redacted], was an engineer with the city's public utilities department for 15 years. In a news conference Sunday morning, Virginia Beach City Manager Dave Hansen described the man’s work performance as “satisfactory” with no ongoing issues of discipline.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-bea ... d-standing

I wonder what happened in this guy's life?

Note: I redacted the suspects name.
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Re: Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center

Postby xd ED on Sun Jun 02, 2019 6:58 pm

Grayskies wrote:Virginia Beach gunman gave resignation before shooting, was in ‘good standing,’ authorities say
Stephen Sorace at Fox News wrote:The Virginia Beach shooter who killed 12 people and wounded several others in a municipal complex on Friday had submitted his resignation earlier that morning, officials said Sunday.

The gunman, identified as 40-year-old [Redacted], was an engineer with the city's public utilities department for 15 years. In a news conference Sunday morning, Virginia Beach City Manager Dave Hansen described the man’s work performance as “satisfactory” with no ongoing issues of discipline.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-bea ... d-standing

I wonder what happened in this guy's life?

Note: I redacted the suspects name.



You think the city manager would ever say something like: '...we knew this guy was a whack job from way back...'?
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Re: Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center

Postby Ghost on Sun Jun 02, 2019 8:22 pm

xd ED wrote:
Grayskies wrote:Virginia Beach gunman gave resignation before shooting, was in ‘good standing,’ authorities say
Stephen Sorace at Fox News wrote:The Virginia Beach shooter who killed 12 people and wounded several others in a municipal complex on Friday had submitted his resignation earlier that morning, officials said Sunday.

The gunman, identified as 40-year-old [Redacted], was an engineer with the city's public utilities department for 15 years. In a news conference Sunday morning, Virginia Beach City Manager Dave Hansen described the man’s work performance as “satisfactory” with no ongoing issues of discipline.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-bea ... d-standing

I wonder what happened in this guy's life?

Note: I redacted the suspects name.



You think the city manager would ever say something like: '...we knew this guy was a whack job from way back...'?

Only if they wanted to be named specifically in a multi-million dollar civil suit
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Re: Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center

Postby Ghost on Sun Jun 02, 2019 8:28 pm

https://nypost.com/2019/06/02/dewayne-craddock-had-been-getting-violent-with-co-workers-before-virginia-beach-shooting-report/

The gunman who shot dead 12 people at a Virginia Beach municipal building had been facing disciplinary action for a violent fight at work, according to a report.

“Murderer” 40, was still employed as an engineer with the Department of Public Utilities when he went on his shooting rampage Friday, killing 12 and injuring several others, including a cop.

But he recently started showing serious behavioral problems and got into physical “scuffles” with other city workers, a source told The New York Times.

The source told the paper that the troubles had escalated in the week leading up to the mass shooting — and “Murderer” was involved in what it called “a violent altercation on city grounds.”

“Murderer” reportedly knew he was facing disciplinary action for the fight when he went into the municipal building with two .45-caliber handguns, at least one of which was equipped with a sound suppressor — and both of which were purchased legally.
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