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Virginia Mass Killer Held Hidden Handgun Permit, High-powered Rifles
20 January 2010
Associated Press
APPOMATTOX, Virginia — A man suspected of shooting eight people to death surrendered Wednesday after spending the night in dense woods, but authorities did not reveal what prompted the killings.
Christopher Bryan Speight, 39, was wearing a bulletproof vest but had no weapons when he turned himself in to police around 7:10 a.m., Sheriff O. Wilson Staples said. Authorities say he fired at a state police helicopter, rupturing its gas tank and forcing it to land, but no... (GunPolicy.org)