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Virginia Beach Police Chief James Cervera said the gunman opened fire on four of his officers immediately after they made contact with him on the second floor of the building and the exchange of fire between officers and the suspect was "double-digit minutes" long.
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An officer with the Virginia Beach Police Department was struck by gunfire while responding to an active shooter event at a municipal building that left 11 innocents dead on Friday afternoon. Six other people were wounded in the attack. The gunman was also reportedly killed during a gunfight with responding officers.
Read More →“One of our deputies jumped the vehicle as it was leaving the scene,” DeFoor said. “The suspect jumped out of his car, started shooting at the deputy, the deputy returned fire. The deputy was shot one time in the throat."
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department posthumously awarded that department's the Medal of Valor to the family of Riley Howell, the UNC Charlotte student who was killed while responding to an active shooter on campus last month.
Read More →The University of North Carolina at Charlotte student who died fighting back against an active shooter attack last week will be laid to rest with full military honors this weekend.
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“I’m proud of my actions yesterday and owe it to all the great member and training that the best unit in the world taught me over the years,” Gundacker wrote in an undated post to a Facebook group for ESU officers.
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Howell was shot and killed, but his actions delayed the shooter, giving police more time to respond and fellow students a chance to escape.
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Chief Jeff Baker says that the speedy and successful response to the shooting on campus on Tuesday was the direct result of significant training his agency has conducted in recent years to deal with such threats.
Read More →Officers with the Duluth (MN) Police Department have been gifted life-saving equipment to be used in the event of an active shooter incident.
Read More →Shooter Detection Systems and Mutualink have joined forces to integrate gunshot detection and location reporting with a first responder interoperability system.
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