​To date, several public briefings as well as written statements have provided details of the criminal and independent investigations. As promised, the Virginia Beach Police will issue its final summary report this fall. While the department retains its right to consider each criminal investigative file as confidential, the City has actually already released massive amounts of information collected as part of this case through responses to Freedom of Information Act requests and as part of the detailed public presentations provided to date. The complete criminal investigative file includes witness statements, physical evidence, crime scene photographs, hundreds of thousands of documents and other intensely and personally invasive material. The shooter terrorized hundreds of people who were in the building on May 31, 2019 and ultimately took the lives of 12 of our colleagues and wounded five others, four critically. In so doing, he caused irreparable grief and harm to the families and friends of the victims. These are people who we have taken great care to, as much as possible, avoid unintentionally re-victimizing, for they have suffered the most. We maintain that granting public access to the full criminal investigative file would expose the victims and their families to unnecessary additional trauma.  

You may visit the Virginia Beach Freedom of Information Center here.