(CNN) The four officers who confronted a shooter inside a Virginia Beach city building engaged in a "long gunbattle" with the gunman, and helped stop him from committing more carnage, the police chief said. Four officers were the first to respond to the scene, Virginia Beach Police Chief James Cervera said. "I can tell you that it was a long gunbattle between those four officers and that suspect," Cervera said in a news conference Friday night. The chief confirmed that a .45 caliber pistol, a suppressor and several empty, higher-capacity magazines were found near the shooter. Officers, EMS and fire personnel, Cervera said, are all "unfortunately" highly qualified in the case of an active shooter situation.

Source: CNN June 01, 2019 04:18 UTC