Fog Blog Virginia Beach Shootings Log:

DeWAYNE CRADDOCK...A DISGRUNTLED CITY ENGINEER OPEN FIRED AT OTHER CITY EMPLOYEES , KILLING 12 AND INJURING 4, .....3 STILL IN CRITICAL CONDITION!.......SHOOTER DEAD AFTER LENGTHY GUN BATTLE WITH POLICE!.....

..A day after a Virginia Beach city employee killed 12 people -- including colleagues -- in a shooting rampage in the municipal building where he worked, investigators are scrambling to nail down why it happened, officials said Saturday."It's still a sense of shock, disbelief. Why did this happen?" Bobby Dyer, mayor of the coastal Virginia city, said.... standing across the street from the multistory brick building where the massacre happened."I guess the big question is why. We want to know, too."Authorities said DeWayne Craddock, 40, a certified professional engineer in the city's public utilities department, moved through and opened fire on three floors of Building 2 of the Virginia Beach Municipal Center at the end of Friday's workday.Craddock killed a dozen people and injured others, and sent terrified witnesses running out of the building or hiding under desks before the shooter died at the end of a lengthy gun battle there with four police officers, authorities said.Eleven of the 12 killed were city employees. The other was a contractor who was there to fill out a permit, City Manager Dave Hansen said.