Survivors relate horror of Virginia shooting: 'Suddenly, a kind of hole exploded in my wall'
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Others were dying up there: Mary Louise Gayle, Alexander Mikhail Gusev and Laquita Brown, all right-of-way agents on the second floor, were among the slain, as were Ryan Keith Cox, an account clerk; Michelle “Missy” Langer, an administrative assistant; and Robert “Bobby” Williams, a special projects co-ordinator.
Virginia Beach police headquarters is in the municipal complex. Two detectives were the first to arrive in Building 2. A pair of uniformed K-9 officers also got there fast. Officials said the four soon found Craddock and a firefight broke out, lasting several minutes. They said one detective’s life was saved when his protective vest stopped a bullet from Craddock’s gun.
Shelia Cook, whose workplace on the campus is near police and fire headquarters, a few blocks from Building 2, said “we could kind of hear what was going on.”
As she and fellow employees were getting ready to leave for the weekend, the crack of gunfire reached them. “Poom, poom – like that,” Cook, 49, said. “If that happened 10 minutes later, me and my colleagues would have been coming out of the building, not knowing what was occurring over there. And bullets have no name on them.”
Then: “Our phones just started pinging with the news. So that’s how we began to look at the news, and, like, ‘Guys, it’s really serious.'” Soon, heavily armed offers arrived, telling Cook and her co-workers to shelter in place.
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