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Official: Gunman’s resignation email had no sign of shooting

By BEN FINLEY and ALAN SUDERMAN, Associated Press
Published: June 3, 2019, 10:12am
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A sign sits among flowers and mementos left at a makeshift memorial for victims of a mass shooting at a municipal building in Virginia Beach, Va.
A sign sits among flowers and mementos left at a makeshift memorial for victims of a mass shooting at a municipal building in Virginia Beach, Va. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Photo Gallery

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The resignation email the gunman sent hours before the shooting at a municipal building was brief, unremarkable and didn’t contain anything that foreshadowed the bloody rampage to come, a city official told The Associated Press on Monday.

“The document itself is part of the investigative file,” city Communications Director Julie Hill said in an email.

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