VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. The Latest on the deadly shooting at a municipal building in Virginia Beach (all times local):
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The Latest on the deadly shooting at a municipal building in Virginia Beach (all times local):
11 a.m.
Hundreds of city employees are streaming into the Virginia Beach Convention Center in a somber gathering three days after a gunman opened fire in a municipal building, killing 12 people.
The private gathering Monday was for employees only. Two city fire trucks are parked outside the convention center. One has a huge American flag hanging from a ladder.
Michelle Walz is a supervisor in the city’s Parks Department. He says City Manager David Hansen spoke to employees and told them that they will stick together and work through the tragedy as a “family.”
The city is making a large number of counselors available for employees.
City officials say DeWayne Craddock opened fire on his co-workers Friday, hours after he sent his supervisor a resignation email. Craddock was an engineer in the city’s utilities department and was killed during a gunbattle with police.
Officials say the resignation email was brief and didn’t give any hint of the coming violence.
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9:55 a.m.
Signs of the shooting that killed 12 people can still be seen at a complex of government buildings in Virginia Beach.
At one entrance to the municipal center stands a makeshift memorial made up of bouquets, flags, teddy bears and crosses bearing the names of the shooting’s victims. A small group of city employees were crying and hugging each other on Monday as they left flowers by one of the crosses.
Volunteers with comfort dogs were on hand.
A section of the compound is still blocked off by law enforcement vehicles and FBI personnel could be seen walking around.
