A state commission has called for numerous changes to how Virginia and its communities respond to mass shootings
, from establishing a victims' fund to teaching people how to slow bleeding before paramedics arrive. But the panel's final report on a 2019 mass shooting at a Virginia Beach government building offered little information that was new or overtly critical of how the massacre was handled. A city engineer had killed 12 people and wounded four others before police fatally shot him.
Ryant Washington, the commission's chair, did not immediately respond to a LinkedIn message seeking comment. David Cariens, a commission member who resigned before the final report's release, said the panel failed. “The legislature said investigate,” said Cariens, who left in part over the commission's lack of investigatory powers. “What was produced is not an investigation. It is a college term paper.
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