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The Washington Naval Yard mass shooting occurred on September 16, 2013, when a gunman using a Remington Model 870 Express Synthetic Tactical 7-Round 12-gauge shotgun and a stolen Beretta M9 9mm semi-automatic pistol fatally shot twelve people, including:

• Michael Arnold (59)
• Martin Bodrog (54)
• Arthur Daniels (51)
• Sylvia Frasier (53)
• Kathy Gaarde (62)
• John Roger Johnson (73)
• Mary Francis Knight (51)
• Frank Kohler (50)
• Vishnu Shalchendia Pandit (61), shot at the scene and died later in a hospital
• Kenneth Bernard Proctor (46)
• Gerald L. Read (58)
• Richard Michael Ridgell (52)

Eight others were injured, three of them from gunfire. The perpetrator was killed in an exchange of gunfire with officers representing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and several other law enforcement agencies.

All the fatalities were civilian employees or contractors; none were in the military.

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