saved many people. without thdoubt or reservation, virginia beach is a city of heroes. >> erica hill leading our team coverage from virginia beach. erica, we are getting a new account of the gunman killed during the shootout with police following the rampage. what can you tell us? >> reporter: yes, we are learning bits and pieces as we're all trying to put together a picture of who this person was. jessica, police confirming moments ago the suspect had not been fired from his job. there was some question about that, although, remember, he had a hard pass to get into areas of the building. so there was some question as to if he had been fired why he would have that pass. again, he was not fired. we are also now hearing from a co-worker of the man who, again, police say opened fire in the workplace, taking those 12 lives on friday. so this other person who works in the building says that both he and the suspect had exchanged words, that they would talk now and then. he said, look, he seemed like a good guy to me. they would talk about different