2019 Virginia Beach shooting
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| Location | Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 36°45′03″N 76°03′27″W / 36.7509°N 76.0575°W |
| Date | May 31, 2019 4:08 – 4:44 p.m. (EDT (UTC−4) |
| Target | Government employees and contractor |
Attack type | Workplace shooting, mass shooting, mass murder |
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| Deaths | 13 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 4 |
| Perpetrator | DeWayne Antonio Craddock (born DeWayne Antonio Hamilton) |
| Motive | Unknown |
On May 31, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at a municipal building in the Princess Anne area of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The gunman, DeWayne Craddock, who was a disgruntled city employee, fatally shot 12 people and wounded four others before he was killed by responding police officers. It is the second-deadliest workplace shooting in U.S. history after the 1986 Edmond post office shooting and the deadliest mass shooting in Virginia since the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting.