2019 Virginia Beach shooting
Mass shooting in a city located on the southeastern coast of Virginia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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On May 31, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at a municipal building in the Princess Anne area of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The gunman, DeWayne Craddock, who was a disgruntled city employee, fatally shot 12 people and wounded four others before he was killed by responding police officers. It is the second-deadliest workplace shooting in U.S. history after the 1986 Edmond post office shooting and the deadliest mass shooting in Virginia since the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting.
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Location | Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. |
Coordinates | 36.7509°N 76.0575°W / 36.7509; -76.0575 |
Date | May 31, 2019 (2019-05-31) 4:08 – 4:44 p.m.[1] (EDT (UTC−4) |
Target | Government employees and contractor |
Attack type | Workplace shooting, mass shooting, mass murder |
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Deaths | 13 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 4 |
Perpetrator | DeWayne Antonio Craddock |
Motive | Unknown |
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