Virginia Beach shooting: 12 killed by ‘disgruntled city worker’
June 1, 2019 in News by RBN Staff
Source: www.aljazeera.com
Shooter identified as DeWayne Craddock fired at colleagues at Virginia Beach municipal centre before police killed him.
At least 12 people were killed in Virginia Beach – a city in the US state of Virginia – on Friday when a gunman opened fire at a municipal centre, in the latest mass shooting in the country.
Police on Saturday identified the gunman as DeWayne Craddock, who fired indiscriminately at his workplace colleagues, sending coworkers scrambling for cover before police fatally shot and killed him, authorities said.
Several others were wounded in the shooting – the worst since a high school shooting left at least 17 people dead in 2018.
Virginia Beach police chief James Cervera said the gunman entered the municipal centre and “immediately began to indiscriminately fire upon all of the victims”.
Police entered the building and got out as many employees as they could, then exchanged fire with Craddock, who was killed, the chief said.
Cervera added the suspect was armed with a .45-calibre handgun equipped with a “sound suppressor” device and was reloading his weapon with extended ammunition magazines as he moved through the building.
The police chief declined to comment on any possible motive but said additional weapons were recovered at the scene and from the suspect’s home.
