–12 Blinder and Thrush. “Virginia Beach Shooting: 12 Victims Identified…” NYT. 6-1-2019.

Narrative Information

May 31: “….The shooting began shortly after 4 p.m. at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center, a campus of city offices and agencies, including the Police Department. The shooting unfolded on multiple floors in Building No. 2, which includes offices for planning and public works, among others, and is adjacent to City Hall….” (NYT. “11 Killed in Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center…” 5-31-2019.)

June 1: “Virginia Beach — The Virginia authorities on Saturday identified the dozen victims of a shooting rampage at a government office complex and named the suspect in the attack for the first — and they said only — time.

“Most of the victims, city officials said, worked for the Virginia Beach government, several of them for decades. The police chief, James A. Cervera, said the suspect in the attack, DeWayne Craddock, had also been a municipal employee for about 15 years. Chief Cervera, speaking at a news conference on Saturday morning [June 1], said he did not intend to say the name of the suspect, who was killed on Friday, again in public.

“He declined to discuss a possible motive for the attack…City Manager David L. Hansen said that Mr. Craddock was still employed by the city at the time of the ‘senseless and incomprehensible’ shooting on Friday afternoon and that he had been ‘authorized to enter the building.’

“All but one of the 12 victims were city employees. The authorities identified them as Laquita C. Brown, Tara Welch Gallagher, Mary Louise Gayle, Alexander Mikhail Gusev, Katherine A. Nixon, Richard H. Nettleton, Christopher Kelly Rapp, Ryan Keith Cox, Joshua A. Hardy, Michelle “Missy” Langer and Robert Williams. The other victim, Herbert Snelling, was a contractor who was at the city government’s vast campus of office buildings to file a permit….

“There was no immediate indication that Mr. Craddock targeted anyone in particular, officials said, and four people were in serious condition on Saturday. Once Mr. Craddock began shooting, he continued to fire throughout the building.

“Additional weapons were found at the scene and at the suspect’s home, though officials did not specify what kind.

“The attack ranks among the deadliest workplace shootings in the United States in recent years. In 2017, the most recent year for which data is available, there were 458 work-related homicides, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was a slight decrease from 2012, when there were 475 workplace homicides….” (Blinder and Thrush. “Virginia Beach Shooting: 12 Victims Identified…” NYT. 6-1-2019.)

Sources

Blinder, Alan and Glenn Thrush. “Virginia Beach Shooting: 12 Victims Identified…” NYT. 6-1-2019. Accessed 6-1-2019 at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/us/virginia-beach-shooting.html

New York Times. “11 Killed in Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center, Officials Say…” 5-31-2019. Accessed 5-31-2019 at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/us/virginia-beach-shooting.html

2019 — May 31, Workplace shooting, Municipal Center Bldg. No. 2, Virginia Beach, VA-12