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Police search for motive in US shooting that killed 12

Virginia state troopers guard a roadblock on June at the scene of a mass shooting in the Virginia Beach Municipal center. [AFP]

Police in Virginia searched Saturday for a motive as to why a public utilities engineer shot indiscriminately at his workplace colleagues, turning a municipal building into a war zone as he killed at least 12 people and wounded four.

Authorities named the gunman in Friday's attack as DeWayne Craddock, described in news reports as being 40 years of age, and said that in order to focus attention on the victims of the latest spasm of America's gun violence epidemic, they would not pronounce his name again.

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