five to eight minutes after these officers entered the building they made contact and engaged with the suspect on the second floor of the building. i can t tell you how many shots a minute were being fired and in the police world anything more than three to five shots is a long gun battle. as the suspect was firing he was moving. they were returning fire and at one point the suspect was firing through the door and through the wall at the officers and then the firing stopped. they eventually breached a door, and when they breached the door the suspect was alive and taken into custody and first aid was immediately rendered to him. the 40-year-old suspect dewayne craddock later died at a virginia beach hospital. four other victims are still being hospitalized. for more on these developments let s bring in crime and justice correspondent shime owen prokupecz. what are we learning about the
what is going on at that moment and why i do what i do. doctor, can you describe the scene? you said you were prepared [ inaudible ]? [ inaudible question ] controlled chaos. staff everywhere. a number of folks and a few in the middle directing traffic. you go here, you go there. i need this. i need that. you know? we mobilize resources from different areas of the hospital. we gathered equipment from other areas of the hospital to make sure we had several rooms set up in a row in order to receive the patients that we received.
welcome back. i m fredricka whitfield live in virginia beach, virginia. a city now reeling from a mass shooting inside the government building behind me. it cut short 12 lives. we are expecting an update from the hospital treating at least four survivors that we know of. at any moment, we will be able to take you to the hospital and you ll be hearing from the trauma doctor there, as well as the attending physician. so far, investigators have been tight-lipped, however, about the possible motives for this deadly rampage carried out by a singular gunman. other than to say it was a disgruntled employee who opened fire on his coworkers inside building 2 behind me before being killed in a shoot-out with responding officers. once they identified him, he
in the emergency department, as we had updates on a number of victims that were to be transported you ve been listening to the attending physician at the sentara virginia beach hospital and that is dr. janell thomas and head of trauma is dr. martin o grady. they are describing the circumstances and atmosphere at the trauma unit when they heard that 12 people were dead and that there were four injured that were being brought to the hospital there after a gunman opened fire in the workplace at building 2, this municipal building right behind me, building 2 on a campus of over 20 municipal buildings. the doctors are describing there it was controlled chaos and it was like everyone had different jobs to do and everyone was being directed how to address the needs of these patients. it takes a lot of coordination according to dr. o grady there and dr. thomas saying it was a