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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.
The 2010 Appomattox shootings was a mass murder in Appomattox, Virginia, United States, that occurred on January 19, 2010. 40-year-old Christopher Bryan Speight fatally shot his sister, her husband, and her son and daughter at their home, as well as four other people. He then escaped into a forest and shot at a police helicopter searching for ...
[1] [2] [3] 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia, on January 25, 1993: Mir Qazi killed two CIA employees in their cars and wounded three others. 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 ...
1 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.
Pages in category "Attacks on buildings and structures in Virginia" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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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
On the night of November 13, 2022, a mass shooting took place at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which three people were killed and two others were injured. [1] [2] Four of the victims, including the three who died, were members of the UVA football team. [3]