On May 31, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at a municipal building in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The gunman, a disgruntled city employee, fatally shot 12 people and wounded four others. His weapons were a Glock 21 .45-caliber pistol and a H&K USP Compact Tactical .45-caliber pistol equipped with a suppressor. He shot two people outside the building, and then shot people on three floors of the building, seeming to fire without particular targets. He was finally shot dead in a gunfight with responding police officers.
Eleven of the dead were employees; the twelfth was a contractor who was in the building to get a permit. The dead are:
• LaQuita Chenoah Brown (39)
• Ryan Keith Cox (50)
• Tara Welch Gallagher (39)
• Mary Louise Crutsinger Gayle (65)
• Alexander Mikhail Gusev (35)
• Joshua Orion Hardy (52)
• Michelle Marie “Missy” Langer (60)
• Richard H. Nettleton (65)
• Katherine Anne Marie Lusich-Nixon (42)
• Christopher Kelly Rapp (54)
• Herbert Ray “Bert” Snelling (57)
• Robert Thomas “Bobby” Williams Sr. (72)