Virginia Beach Shooting Suspect Submitted Resignation Hours Before Attack, Police Say

The gunman who opened fire on his colleagues inside a Virginia Beach government building resigned just hours before the shooting on May 31.

Rich Lindgren places American flags at a makeshift memorial at the edge of a police cordon in front of a municipal building that was the scene of a shooting in Virginia Beach, Va., on June 1, 2019. Patrick Semansky/AP Photo

The gunman who opened fire on his colleagues inside a Virginia Beach government building, killing 11 public servants and one contractor, and wounding four others, resigned just hours before the shooting on May 31, according to reports.

DeWayne Craddock, 40, a civil engineer who had worked for about 15 years for the City of Virginia Beach, handed in his two-week resignation notice on Friday morning via email just hours before the horrific attack.