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Notable shooting incidents that have occurred in the U.S. state of Virginia include:

  • George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, was shot and killed while leaving a laundromat in Arlington, Virginia, on August 25, 1967.
  • Richard McCoy Jr., an escaped convict, fired at FBI agents in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and an agent fired back with a shotgun, killing McCoy, on November 9, 1974.
  • Rockbridge County John Doe, an unidentified murder victim, was found on May 27, 1987, having been killed by two gunshot wounds.
  • At Atlantic Shores Christian School in Virginia Beach on December 16, 1988, 16-year-old student Nicholas Elliott shot two teachers with a Mac-10 9-millimeter machine pistol, killing 41-year-old Karen Farley and critically wounding 37-year-old Sam Marino, then began firing on a classroom full of students before the gun jammed; no students were hit.[1][2][3]
  • 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia, on January 25, 1993: Mir Qazi killed two CIA employees in their cars and wounded three others.
  • D.C. sniper attacks: a series of coordinated shootings over three weeks in October 2002. Ten people were killed and three others wounded in the Baltimore-Washington area and along Interstate 95 in Virginia.
  • Rodney Pocceschi, a Virginia Beach, Virginia police officer, was killed in the line of duty on June 23, 2003.[4]
  • William Morva on August 20, 2006, shot Sheriff's Deputy Corporal Eric Sutphin and hospital security guard Derrick McFarland, in the town of Blacksburg, Virginia.
  • Virginia Tech Shooting: on April 16, 2007 at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, Virginia, Seung-Hui Cho shot 49 people, killing 32 and wounding 17.[5]
  • Mike Brim, an NFL cornerback, died in a shootout on April 19, 2005 in Richmond, Virginia.[6]
  • 2010 Appomattox shootings: on January 19, 2010, Christopher Bryan Speight shot his sister, her husband, and her son and daughter at their home, as well as four other people.
  • 2010 Pentagon shooting: on March 4, 2010, John Patrick Bedell shot and wounded two Pentagon police officers at a security checkpoint in the Pentagon station of the Washington Metro rapid transit system in Arlington County, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C.[7]
  • Death of Kirill Denyakin occurred on April 23, 2011, in Portsmouth, Virginia, when Denyakin was shot and killed by police.
  • Shooting of John Geer occurred on August 29, 2013, in Pohick Hills, Springfield, Virginia, when Geer was killed by police.
  • Death of William Chapman occurred on April 22, 2015, in Portsmouth, Virginia, when Chapman was shot and killed by police.
  • Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward: they were fatally shot on August 26, 2015, near Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta, Virginia, by Vester Lee Flanagan II, a.k.a. Bryce Williams.[8]
  • FreightCar America shooting, October 25, 2016 in Roanoke, Virginia: Getachew Fekede killed an employee and wounded three others.
  • 2017 Congressional baseball shooting, June 14, 2017, in Alexandria, Virginia: Republican member of Congress Steve Scalise was shot while practicing baseball. Also shot were Crystal Griner, a U.S. Capitol Police officer, Zack Barth, a congressional aide, and Matt Mika, a lobbyist.
  • Shooting of Bijan Ghaisar occurred on November 17, 2017 when Ghaisar was fatally shot by police after a traffic collision on the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Northern Virginia.
  • Shooting of Jiansheng Chen occurred on January 26, 2017 when Jiansheng Chen was shot dead by a security officer in Chesapeake, Virginia.
  • 2019 Virginia Beach shooting, occurred on May 31, 2019.

See also

  • John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. He fled to a farm in rural northern Virginia where he was shot.

References

  1. ^ Finley 2014, p. 325.
  2. ^ "Student With Pistol Kills One Teacher And Injures Another". The New York Times. December 17, 1988. Archived from the original on May 1, 2017.
  3. ^ Crews 2016, p. 7.
  4. ^ "Police Officer Rodney Fredderick Pocceschi". The Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP). Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  5. ^ Hauser, Christine; O’Connor, Anahad (2007-04-16). "Virginia Tech Shooting Leaves 33 Dead". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
  6. ^ "Former NFL player Brim killed in shootout". ESPN.com. 2005-04-22. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  7. ^ "Pentagon shooting suspect fatally shot". The Guardian. Associated Press. 2010-03-05. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
  8. ^ O'Malley, Nick (2015-08-27). "Television journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward fatally shot in on-air attack - now gunman dead too". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
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