Shooting spree at Virginia Beach Courthouse

Developing

Oh yeah, I forgot, its Friday.

They're not bullet wounds, they're freedom holes.

Let's spin the Wheel of Losers, and see which type of random shitbag decided his Bad Day entitled him to take life from others.

Before I see his face, know his name or his story, FUCK YOU, ASSWIPE. 🖕

"Suspect in custody" = white guy

11 dead thus far.

Thoughts and prayers.

Suspect is dead, per AP.

And apparently also the gunman.

That's the district where there was a tie for state rep after a judge disallowed a ballot for the Dem and then the Rep won by drawing straws.

Just another Republican Republicaning.

[quote]That's the district where there was a tie for state rep after a judge disallowed a ballot for the Dem and then the Rep won by drawing straws.

That was in Newport News. You're about thirty miles too far east.

Bought some pears.

Fought some bears.

What we know about the #VirginiaBeach shooting:

—One shooter, deceased —At least 11 people dead —At least 6 people hospitalized —Governor Ralph Northam said his team is "actively monitoring the situation"

My bad. You're right, r11.

Lone white gunman=Not terrorist! Really!

Sigh...

Heaven needed angels.

America was slipping on this front. There hadn't been a good old-fashioned mass shooting for a while (NZ being the last big one). I guess this guy stepped up to the plate for the home team. I saw that a city councilman already posted the standard worn out request for prayers. It's all so cliche.

Squee! A spree!

T & P

Thoughts and prayers ™

Has the president issued the 'sick individual' rationalization yet?

I bet the guy had been fired today.

There was a UNCC shooting spree earlier this month

We can haz Canadian humanitarian invasion and pacification now? Please?

Horrifying.

One of three shootings in Newport News today...

Only 11 dead ? Amateur.

What are the chances he was also a domestic abuser?

They almost always have a domestic abuse report/conviction on their record, R30. Scumbags.

"He only takes the best"

But, hey *FREEDOM*

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This happened in Virginia Beach 30 years ago:

It distracts from the antics of Trump for a few hours on the news feeds, but it will be back to 'normal' reporting tomorrow. Until the next mass shooting in two weeks.

Ought some cares.

Is he a marginalized incel virgin who lives in his mother’s basement too?

I know I shouldnt have laughed at r3, but I did

Here we go again.. and again.. and again.

Sought some players..

Remember when it used to seem to only be postal workers 'going postal?'

Also, no one is ever 'gruntled.'

@dennisjromero

Reporter for NBC News affiliate WAVY says 14 dead in Virginia Beach mass shooting. UNCONFIRMED. Another press conference is coming in about an hour.

I was gruntled last Saturday, r42.

Just for the record.

SQUEE ……….

😂 You made me giggle r20. It's been ages since I heard that little gem !

I haven’t watched news reports on shootings since after Newtown. I thought that was one of the most horrible incidents I’d ever seen reported other than 9/11. I thought that shooting might finally change things. It didn’t. I’ve been numb since especially given that most mass or spree shootings since then haven’t involved children.

Gruntled is defined as 'pleased, satisfied, contented'. I'll use it now.

[quote] Gruntled is defined as 'pleased, satisfied, contented'. I'll use it now.

Attorney General Bob Barr is gruntled after the latest mass shooting because people are exercising their constitutional rights.

Whatever happened to “shopping sprees”?

Shooter is Dewayne Craddock per WSJ. 40 years old, African-American.

Well that’s an unusual twist, R50.

He planned this. Made several firearms purchases in recent weeks according to the WSJ article. A rifle and semi automatic handgun were found at the scene.

Not my will oh Lord but thine be done.

Nobody cares whatsoever anymore except for the bereaved families. The media circlejerk is hypocrisy.

Re: R52 So, it wasn't because the fuckface ratbastard was shitcanned.

Could there possibly be a more diabolical “civil engineering” plan than a mass murder?

R46... I thought Newtown would be the turning point, the last straw, and real changes would have been made with gun control. When nothing was done, I knew that was it... no hope for positive change.

He was a project manager with the City of Virginia Beach. Graduate of Old Dominion University with a bachelors degree in Civil Engineering.

Wonder what set him off?

DeWayne Craddock: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Brain tumor maybe. Or anti-depressants that mucked up his wiring.

I don't understand why tweetards nowhere near the situation assume things like race and political ideology, given shootings happen practically in every state and in many cases the gunman fires indiscriminately; isn't it enough for them to know he was an American adult male who bought his firearms legally and whose rage overpowered his recognition of the Second Amendment?

I wish I'd shot my old bitch of a boss and several of the workers when we were all working together. Scattered to the winds they are now and I'll never be able to blast them into wet confetti. Ah well. Life's lost opportunities.

Mentally ill perhaps?

tots and pears always

Cots and chairs

This is not, I Repeat NOT, the time to bring up or even mention gun control!

This is no surprise, and it's not shocking. It's the inevitable outcome of our toxic, right-wing gun culture.

As foreigner - I dont even click on US mass shootings anymore.

It's very difficult to read permutations of the same type of Mrs story details only slightly tweaked, when there's likely another one not far away in another news cycle.

It's a sad indictment on US society.

Frankly, if US society has no political momentum or will to generate real change, fuck knows the global community has bigger concerns to give precious limited genuine attention to that will justify time support and cooperation to improve lives that want to live towards constructing better lives, communities and livelihoods.

^"mass shootings story" - that should bred.

[quote]It's the inevitable outcome of our toxic, right-wing gun culture.

It's the inevitable outcome of the violence and anger that are entrenched in the American psyche. It's the inevitable outcome of America's scapegoat mentality.

How amny people do you have to hit to make it a "spree"?

Rachel interrupted her show for a live press conference.

I know it's a difficult time, but both Gov Ralph Northam (the blackface scandal guy) and Mayor Bobby Dyer came off terribly. Not the kind of people you'd look to for leadership in a tragedy.

The police chief, James Cervera. on the other hand, is doing well. He said he he will mention the suspects name only once, and then he will thereafter be referred to as 'the suspect'.

Death toll stands at 12.

Personally, I think they ought to just start calling the shooters "murdering trash" instead of using their names. It's what they are, no matter their 'reason'. But, at least the CoP is trying something different, than giving yet another p.o.s. airtime and attention.

Great post, R67.

Usually I can make the snide thoughts and prayers comments, but this time it's too close to home (though somewhat removed). I can't imagine how people involved cope.

Wonder what set him off?

This: He was a project manager with the City of Virginia Beach. Graduate of Old Dominion University with a bachelors degree in Civil Engineering.

It's a fucked up job -- you have to go around and make sure others get their shit done. In a lazy city works environment, it is crazy making. Also, it is a job they always stick to minorities and women.

Older pics a FB screenshot.

R75 The shooter was fired recently. I would hate to work in HR. Firing someone could be deadly.

Shorts and hairs!

A lot of times the disgruntled employee just shoots random coworkers and doesn’t go after the people in management they’re really pissed at.

[quote]A lot of times the disgruntled employee just shoots random coworkers and doesn’t go after the people in management they’re really pissed at.

Other times, they just target their targets, and walk by the uninvolved (see the UIowa shooting)

Reports said that was not true that he was fired?

That's a relief. I was stressing out why there weren't any shootings of hate. Keep it up America!

I'll guess narcissism plus roid rage.

"He can't help that his moma had a child like him."

I knew he was white the moment I saw that this thread hadn't hit 200 in 5 minutes.

Aren't pretty much all school shootings by whites r84?

Shooter who killed 5-6 people earlier this year and wounded 5-6 cops at that business in Aurora, Ill., was also a disgruntled African American employee/ex-employee, Rs 51 and 85. Nothing "unusual" about it.

This thread hasn't hit 200 posts of bile, venom, outrage and stupidity because the shooter's name is DEWAYNE. R84 R85 badly need to visit their optometrist.

//copy & paste: thoughts & prayers

So many fat people in the news.

The murderer was very fit

If only there had been a good guy with a gun...

So sad

Don't worry, R82. We'll never let the world down in the realm of domestic mayhem! A constant you can count on!

Guns, Guns, Guns, till his daddy takes the T- Bird away!

Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, till his daddy takes his machine gun away!

Spots and lairs..

Mounds of eclairs

Maybe people should invest in bullet proof vests.. jackets. How about some fashion designers start on a collection? Project Runway... here's a challenge.. lol.

Truth or dares

Has morons Trump or Pence commented yet?

[quote]That was in Newport News. You're about thirty miles too far east.

Is there really a difference between Newport News, VA Beach and Norfolk?

Portsmouth

[quote]Is there really a difference between Newport News, VA Beach and Norfolk?

I don't know, is there a difference between Manhattan and Yonkers?

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia -- The city of Virginia Beach identified the 12 victims killed after a longtime city employee opened fire in a municipal building Friday.

Dave Hanson, the city manager of Virginia Beach, listed the names, saying 11 of the 12 victims were employees of the city, most of whom he's worked with "for many years."

One victim, Richard Nettleton, served with him in an engineer brigade of the United States Army.

"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 co-workers," he said.

They projected photos on a screen and gave each victim's name along with photos, names, employee title, and years of service.

The victims are:

-- Laquita Brown, of Chesapeake, who worked in public works for over 4 years as Right-of-Way agent

-- Tara Welch, of Virginia Beach, who worked in public works for six years as an engineer

-- Mary Louise Gayle, of Virginia Beach, who worked in public works for 24 years as Right-of-Way agent

-- Alexander Gusev, of Virginia Beach, who worked in public works for 24 years as Right-of-Way agent

-- Katherine Nixon, of Virginia Beach, who worked in public utilities for 10 years as an engineer

-- Christopher Kelly Rapp, of Powhatan, who worked in public works for 11 months as an engineer

-- Richard Nettleton, of Norfolk, worked in public utilities for 28 years as an engineer

-- Ryan Keith Cox, of Virginia Beach, worked in public utilities over 12 years as an account clerk

-- Joshua Hardy, of Virginia Beach, worked in public utilities over 4 years as an engineering technician

-- Michelle 'Missy' Langer, of Virginia Beach, worked in public utilities for 12 years as an administrative assistant

-- Robert 'Bobby' Williams, of Chesapeake, worked in public utilities for 41 years as a special projects coordinator

-- Herbert 'Bert' Snelling, of Virginia Beach, worked as a contractor

R69, There are more guns than people in the US, and most of them are owned by right-wing gun nuts.

So then it's right wing gun nut DeWayne Craddock.?

Wow, a lot of these people had worked there a long time.

Did ‘silencer’ make a difference in Virginia Beach carnage?

The shooter who killed 12 people in a government office building in Virginia Beach used a firearm equipped with a suppressor that muffles the sound of gunfire. It’s the nightmare scenario that gun-control advocates have warned about amid efforts in recent years to ease restrictions on the devices, which they say can help shooters escape detection and inflict more carnage.

But gun-rights advocates and most law enforcement experts say DeWayne Craddock’s use of a suppressor likely had no bearing on his ability to kill so many people in so little time Friday.

Guess I'm not the worst Craddock in the world anymore!

R105, So, you're admitting that right-wing gun nuts are all white?

And I didn't say that THIS shooter was a right-wing gun nut. I said that these gun fetishists are responsible for our toxic gun culture, and therefor our mass gun violence.

@AP

The Virginia Beach gunman resigned by email hours before the shooting that left 12 dead, police say.

They have a lot of mass shootings in Virginia

At one point in my life this might have upset me. But as I get older, I realize if the people in this and all the other states don't care about mass shootings, neither do I

Dear America. If you don't care, I don't care. I'll be dead in 25 years, and your kids and grandkids will all be alive to get what they deserve - all because of you

[quote]The Virginia Beach gunman resigned by email hours before the shooting that left 12 dead, police say.

Of course he did. He knew what he was going to do and didn’t want to get fired. They’d probably fire someone for something like that, but it is Virginia after all, so who knows?

Oopsie doopsie.

Does the NRA allow fully loaded semi automatic rifles at their convention? If not, why not? Why not have open carry of AR 15s? Are they [italic] afraid [/italic]?

i would join the NRA & donate $50k if they let me attend the convention with a loaded AR 15.

[quote] The Virginia Beach gunman resigned by email hours before the shooting

𝑰'𝒎 𝒏𝒐 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒍. 𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚'𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕?

[quote]Maybe people should invest in bullet proof vests.. jackets. How about some fashion designers start on a collection?

Bullet proof backpacks are already for sale, r97. A great back to school accessory; now we need smart phones that can calculate if that weird kid who never talks in class is packing an AR-15 under his Stasi coat.