Final Report Finds No Motive in Virginia Beach Mass Shooting

Final Report Finds No Motive in Virginia Beach Mass Shooting
The casket of Virginia Beach shooting victim Katherine Nixon is brought to a hearse after a funeral service at St. Gregory The Great Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Va. on June 6, 2019. Steve Helber/AP Photo
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Police in Virginia Beach cannot determine a motive for a city engineer’s rampage in 2019 that killed 12 people in the municipal building where he worked, according to the city’s final investigative report released Wednesday.

“Despite exhaustive investigative work and in spite of unsubstantiated rumors and accusations, it appears we may never know why he committed this heinous act,” the report’s conclusion states.