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On May 31, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at a municipal building in the Princess Anne area of Virginia Beach, Virginia.The gunman, DeWayne Craddock, who was a disgruntled city employee, fatally shot 12 people and wounded four others before he was killed by responding police officers.
Overall, there were 177,060 crimes reported in 2014 in Virginia, including 338 murders and homicides. [1] In 2012 Virginia had the 3rd-lowest rape rate by state after New Jersey and New York. [1] [2] The state has significantly lower crime rates than demographically similar neighboring states Maryland, North Carolina, and Tennessee. [3]
The city of Virginia Beach has a lower crime rate than the other regional cities of Hampton Roads, Newport News, Norfolk, and Portsmouth, which all exceed national average crime rates. [83] In 1999 Virginia Beach experienced 12 murders giving the city a murder rate of 2.7 per 100,000 people.
13. Atlantic Beach. Location: Atlantic Beach, Florida Despite a reasonably low crime rate, Atlantic Beach’s waters are not the safest. The beach scores 66.2 on a 100-point scale for water pollution.
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.
The Virginia Beach Fire Department is asking for help from the public after an illegal fireworks display earlier this week damaged boats at Rudee Inlet. According to an update from the department ...
52-year-old Emma Compton Layne went missing in June 2017. Her remains were found in November of that year. Her husband, Russell Layne, was arrested for her murder the day before Thanksgiving 2024.
The following table of United States cities by crime rate is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) statistics from 2019 for the 100 most populous cities in America that have reported data to the FBI UCR system. [1] The population numbers are based on U.S. Census estimates for the year end.