A civil works employee indiscriminately opened fire on a municipal building in Virginia Beach on Friday, killing 12 people and injuring several others.
According to USA Today, the shooter – who submitted his letter of resignation the morning of the shooting – opened fire in his office building at the end of the workday on Friday, killing a dozen people before being shot and killed himself by police.
The suspected shooter, 40-year-old DeWayne Craddock, had worked as a veteran of public works and a civil engineer for 15 years with the city.
Reportedly, around 4:00 p.m. Craddock first took aim at a person in their car outside of the building, killing them. The shooter – armed with a .45 caliber handgun equipped with a silencer – then made his way into the building where he began to fire on employees on three different floors of the building.
The shooting ended nearly 45 minutes later in a shootout between Craddock and police.
Among the 12 victims were Craddock’s boss Richard Nettleton, contractor Herbert Snelling, right-of-way agents Laquita Brown, Mary Gayle and Alexander Gusev, engineers Tara Gallagher and Christopher Rapp, engineering technician Joshua Hardy, account clerk Ryan Cox, administrative assistant Michelle Langer and 41-year veteran in public utilities Robert Williams, CNN reports.
According to USA Today, the motive for the shooting is unknown at…
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