Virginia Beach shooting: Residents hold prayer vigil for 12 dead

"One of the vigil attendees told me he supports gun rights as do many Americans."Police killed Craddock after he fired indiscriminately at his workplace colleagues, shooting 12 dead and wounding several others.The victims were identified as Laquita C Brown, Tara Welch Gallagher, Mary Louise Gayle, Alexander Mikhail Gusev, Katherine A Nixon, Richard H Nettleton, Christopher Kelly Rapp, Ryan Keith Cox, Joshua A Hardy, Michelle "Missy" Langer, Robert "Bobby" Williams and Herbert "Bert" Snelling.Virginia Beach police chief James Cervera said the suspect was armed with a .45-calibre handgun equipped with a "sound suppressor" device and was reloading his weapon with extended ammunition magazines as he moved through the building.Cervera declined to comment on any possible motive but said additional weapons were recovered at the scene and from the suspect's home.Virginia Beach City Manager Dave Hansen said at a press conference on Saturday that Craddock had been employed by the city for 15 years as an engineer.Hansen said Craddock was still employed at the time of the shooting on Friday afternoon and possessed a security pass that allowed him access to non-public areas of the municipal building.Neither Hansen nor Cervera would comment on whether Craddock was facing disciplinary or termination proceedings at the time of the shooting.The city's mayor Bobby Dyer called it "the most devastating day in the history of Virginia Beach".A public works employee told a local NBC television news affiliate that employees were at their desks when gunshots rang out and recounted seeing a badly injured woman in a stairwell, WAVY-TV reported on its website.Megan Banton, an administrative assistant who works in the building where the shooting happened, said she heard gunshots, called 911 and barricaded herself and about 20 colleagues inside an office, pushing a desk against a door."We tried to do everything we could to keep everybody safe," she said.