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Last edited Fri May 31, 2019, 06:51 PM - Edit history (1)
Link to tweet
Breaking: Active shooter at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center. Multiple victims, shooter not in custody.
Scott Stedman? @ScottMStedman · 7m7 minutes ago
Suspect in custody. More gunshot victims being discovered.
Scott Stedman? @ScottMStedman · 1m1 minute ago
Won't share unconfirmed numbers of victims from police scanner but this is bad.
Scott Stedman? @ScottMStedman
Victims on the 2nd and 3rd floor, multiple rooms with victims.
1:51 PM - 31 May 2019
GusBob
(7,286 posts)I read the police dept and the sherrifs dept are right next door so hopefully they are on it
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,606 posts)but there is at their website:
By Mike Connors and Alissa Skelton
Staff writer
18 min ago
VIRGINIA BEACH
Multiple people were injured by a shooter, who has been apprehended, at the city's Municipal Center on Friday afternoon, police said.
Master Police Officer Allen Perry confirmed there was a shooter in building two, which is located next door to City Hall.
At 4:50 p.m., the Virginia Beach Police Department tweeted that one shooter has been taken into custody and multiple people were injured. Perry said he could not say how many.
"We are asking everyone in the Municipal Center to shelter in place," he said.
Emergency crews are responding to the courthouse complex, Art Kohn, a fire-rescue spokesman, said about 4:30 p.m. He did not provide any other details.
This is a developing story. Please check back to pilotonline.com for more details.
{Edited, about ten minutes later}
They have it now on their Twitter account:
BREAKING: Police say multiple people were injured by a shooter at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center.
This is a developing story. We're working on updates.
Link to tweet
csziggy
(34,137 posts)struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)Multiple injuries were reported in an active shooter situation at Virginia Beach Municipal Center on Friday afternoon, police tweeted. At this time it is believed that only <one> shooter, and they have been taken into custody, the Virginia Beach Police Department wrote. According to local news station WAVY, multiple police units have responded to the scene and the building was on lockdown ...
https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/watch-heavy-police-presence-seen-at-the-virginia-beach-municipal-center
Shell_Seas
(3,335 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)shot
DFW
(54,437 posts)We haven't heard back. I hope they were nowhere near where the violence occurred.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts).
Perps were using scanners to pick the best time to boot the front doors of their victims and elude police.
They would find out when cops were dispatched to calls in other sections of town, giving them extra minutes.
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Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)Weve become numb to these things.