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The Norfolk Navy Station shooting took place at Navy Pier 1, located within the larger Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, at approximately 11:20 at night on March 24, 2014. Jeffery Tyrone Savage, a 35-year-old civilian truck driver, drove his 2002 Freightliner near the pier and boarded the USS Mahan , a guided-missile destroyer.
A vehicle-ramming attack is an assault in which a perpetrator deliberately rams a vehicle into a building, multiple people, or another vehicle. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ a ] According to Stratfor Global Intelligence analysts in 2008, this method of attack represented a relatively new militant tactic that could prove more difficult to prevent than suicide ...
A "soft target" is a person, thing, or location that is easily accessible to the general public and relatively unprotected, making it vulnerable to military strikes, terrorism, car bombs, or crimes such as vehicle-ramming attacks or mass shootings. [1] By contrast, a "hard target" is heavily defended or not accessible to the general public.
D.C. sniper attacks: a series of coordinated shootings over three weeks in October 2002. Ten people were killed and three others wounded in the Baltimore-Washington area and along Interstate 95 in Virginia. Rodney Pocceschi, a Virginia Beach, Virginia police officer, was killed in the line of duty on June 23, 2003. [4]
A vehicle-ramming attack, also known as a vehicle as a weapon or VAW attack, [1] is an assault in which a perpetrator deliberately rams a vehicle into a building, people, [2] [3] or another vehicle. According to Stratfor Global Intelligence analysts, this attack represents a relatively new militant tactic that could prove more difficult to ...
John Allen Muhammed and Lee Boyd Malvo committed a series of sniper attacks in several locations across Maryland and Virginia. The attacks killed 17 and injured 10 others. Debates continue as to whether the Beltway Sniper Attacks were inspired by extremist ideology. John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo: 26–29 November 2008 2008 Mumbai attacks
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Charlottesville, Virginia: Charlottesville car attack: On August 12, 2017, James Alex Fields Jr. a member of the neo-Nazi group Vanguard America intentionally drove his car into a group of counter-demonstrators at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia killing a woman named Heather Heyer in the process. The Charlottesville mayor ...