List of shootings in Virginia

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rdf:langString Notable shooting incidents that have occurred in the U.S. state of Virginia include: * 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. * Rockbridge County John Doe, an unidentified murder victim, was found on May 27, 1987, having been killed by two gunshot wounds. * At Atlantic Shores Christian School in Virginia Beach on December 16, 1988, 16-year-old student Nicholas Elliott shot two teachers with a Mac-10 9-millimeter machine pistol, killing 41-year-old Karen Farley and critically wounding 37-year-old Sam Marino, then began firing on a classroom full of students before the gun jammed; no students were hit. * 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 Interstate 95 in Virginia. * Rodney Pocceschi, a Virginia Beach, Virginia police officer, was killed in the line of duty on June 23, 2003. * William Morva on August 20, 2006, shot Sheriff's Deputy Corporal Eric Sutphin and hospital security guard Derrick McFarland, in the town of Blacksburg, Virginia. * Virginia Tech Shooting: on April 16, 2007 at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, Virginia, Seung-Hui Cho shot 49 people, killing 32 and wounding 17. * Mike Brim, an NFL cornerback, died in a shootout on April 19, 2005 in Richmond, Virginia. * 2010 Appomattox shootings: on January 19, 2010, Christopher Bryan Speight shot his sister, her husband, and her son and daughter at their home, as well as four other people. * 2010 Pentagon shooting: on March 4, 2010, John Patrick Bedell shot and wounded two Pentagon police officers at a security checkpoint in the Pentagon station of the Washington Metro rapid transit system in Arlington County, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. * Death of Kirill Denyakin occurred on April 23, 2011, in Portsmouth, Virginia, when Denyakin was shot and killed by police. * Shooting of John Geer occurred on August 29, 2013, in Pohick Hills, Springfield, Virginia, when Geer was killed by police. * Death of William Chapman occurred on April 22, 2015, in Portsmouth, Virginia, when Chapman was shot and killed by police. * Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward: they were fatally shot on August 26, 2015, near Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta, Virginia, by Vester Lee Flanagan II, a.k.a. Bryce Williams. * FreightCar America shooting, October 25, 2016 in Roanoke, Virginia: Getachew Fekede killed an employee and wounded three others. * 2017 Congressional baseball shooting, June 14, 2017, in Alexandria, Virginia: Republican member of Congress Steve Scalise was shot while practicing baseball. Also shot were Crystal Griner, a U.S. Capitol Police officer, Zack Barth, a congressional aide, and Matt Mika, a lobbyist. * Shooting of Bijan Ghaisar occurred on November 17, 2017 when Ghaisar was fatally shot by police after a traffic collision on the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Northern Virginia. * Shooting of Jiansheng Chen occurred on January 26, 2017 when Jiansheng Chen was shot dead by a security officer in Chesapeake, Virginia. * 2019 Virginia Beach shooting, occurred on May 31, 2019. * 2022 University of Virginia shooting, occurred on November 13, 2022. * 2022 Chesapeake shooting, occurred on November 22, 2022.