‘We in Virginia Beach are a city of heroes,’ mayor says of police response to mass shooting

Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images(VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.) — The officers who confronted an alleged gunman during a mass shooting in a packed Virginia Beach municipal building helped prevent even more bloodshed. Twelve people were shot to death and four others were injured in Friday’s rampage, allegedly carried out by a disgruntled employee. But officials praised the responding …

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