Virginia Beach Officials Identify12 Victims, Suspect in Mass Shooting

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Virginia Beach officials identified the twelve victims and the suspect in the horrific mass shooting in the municipal building on Friday afternoon.
Source: Virginia Beach/ YouTube (screenshot from video of the press conference on June 1)

Virginia Beach officials identified the twelve victims and the suspect in the horrific mass shooting in the municipal building on Friday afternoon.

Four others were injured—three remain in critical conditions a Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital.

During a press conference on Saturday, Virginia Beach City Manager Dave Hansen, said, “Today, we all grieve. This morning, I have the responsibility to inform friends, coworkers, and the public of those who lost their lives yesterday. We want you to know who they were, so in the days and weeks to come, you will learn what they meant to all of us, to their families, to their friends, and to their coworkers. They leave a void that we will never be able to fill.”

The victims were Laquita Brown, Mary Louise Gayle, Alexander Mikhail Gusev, Katherine Nixon, Richard Nettleton, Christopher Kelly Rapp, Ryan Keith Cox, Joshua Hardy, Michelle “Missy” Langer, Robert “Bobby” Williams and Herbert “Bert” Snelling.

Eleven of the 12 victims were city employees who served in the public works department. Snelling was a contractor trying to fill-up a permit. He is a resident of Virginia Beach.

Suspect died after a long gun battle with police officers

The city’s police Chief James Cervera identified the shooter as DeWayne Craddock, an engineer with the city’s public utilities department for 15 years.