FBI Provides Final Briefing on the Virginia Beach Municipal Center Shooting to the Virginia Beach Police Department
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has concluded its investigative assistance to the Virginia Beach Police Department (VBPD) regarding the mass shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center on May 31, 2019, and has provided a final verbal briefing to the police department.
At the request of VBPD, the FBI provided significant law enforcement assistance to the police department’s response and investigation of the incident. In the immediate aftermath, the bureau deployed crisis management and operational personnel to assist with the local response. This included field Evidence Response Teams and experts from the FBI Laboratory who conducted a complex 10-day evidence recovery operation and forensic investigation of the crime scene in Municipal Center Building 2, and specialists from the Victim Services Division who were deployed to support victims, family members, an
Published: 09 June 2021
The FBI said it believes the gunman in the 2019 Virginia Beach mass shooting “was motivated by perceived workplace grievances.”
In the bureau’s final briefing on the deadly shooting, released Wednesday, a team from the Behavioral Analysis Unit offered its assessment of the gunman, describing him as someone who fixated on these grievances for years and struggled with mental health.
The shooter, a city engineer, killed 12 people and wounded four others at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center on May 31, 2019. He then died in a shootout with police.
WHRO is not using the shooter’s name to avoid giving him attention for his actions.
Husband of Virginia Beach mass shooting victim meets privately with police hoping for more answers, closure
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Jason Nixon, who lost his wife Kate in the mass shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center on May 31, 2019, prepared Wednesday morning to meet with Virginia Beach Police privately, hoping to gain more answers about the tragedy. I am hoping they tell the truth and we get all the information, he says before entering an office building at Town Center.
The City of Virginia Beach called the meeting with Nixon after he received the Final Summary Investigation Report released last month, which stated no motive was found in the shooting. The city also stated they would return Kate s personal property.