beach. 12 families whose loved ones won t be coming home tonight. think about that. 12 people losing their lives for absolutely no reason. no reason. a municipal building on a friday afternoon, shortly after 4:00 p.m., just as the workday was winding down. that building was full of city workers as well as residents. taking care of just mundane errands. like paying their water bills and so on. the gunman, a long-time public utilities worker, police say that they are not releasing his identity at this time. they still have to notify some family members of his. and also the people who have been killed. authorities say he was killed in the shootout with police. after he shot an officer who was saved by his bulletproof vest. authorities are trying to figure out tonight what set him off. here s what sources are saying now. they say he was disgruntled. police say he entered the building and immediately started firing. indiscriminately. shooting anyone and everyone that he could. we
friends, co-workers, neighbors, colleagues. you know, at this point i would like to turn things over to chief cervera to give you the information that we have so far. the mayor, as you saw, could hardly continue. the police chief, understandably, struggled as well. right now we have a lot of questions. the whys, they will come later. right now we have more questions really than we have answers. we re a little more than two hours into this event, and we use the word event, that s a cop term. this devastating incident that happened that none of us want to be here to talk about, this devastating incident that is going to change the lives of a number of families from our city. local station wvec managed to speak with a witness. her name is megan banton. she works inside the building. just we just heard there was an active shooter and we just barricaded ourselves in offices to make sure that we were all safe, and i called 911 just to get them to come there as fast as p
a municipal building in virginia beach. 12 loved ones who won t be coming home to families tonight. think about that. 12 people losing their lives for absolutely no reason. a municipal building on a friday afternoon, shortly after 4:00 p.m., just as the workday was winding down. that building was full of city workers. as well as residents. taking care of just mundane errands. like paying their water bills. and so on. the gunman, a long-time public utilities worker, police say that they are not releasing his identity at this time. they still have to notify some family members of his. and also the people who have been killed. authorities say he was killed in the shootout with police. after he shot an officer who was saved by his but-proof vest. now, authorities have trying to figure out tonight what set him off. here s what sources are saying now. they say he was disgruntled. police say he entered the building and immediately started firing. indiscriminately, shooting anyone an