VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A Virginia Beach SWAT team conducted a training exercise in the same building where 12 people were shot and killed in a mass shooting.
The Virginian-Pilot reports officers appeared in tactical gear and carried rifles on Wednesday to train with at least one K-9 unit as a small number of information technology workers were inside the building, evoking memories of the shooting on May 31.
That’s when a longtime city engineer shot 16 people before police responded to the attack and killed the gunman. Capt. John Thomas “J.T.” Orr emailed IT staff to apologize.
