How Virginia Beach is remembering the victims of its shooting tragedy

Virginia Beach Municipal Center shooting victims.
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Monday marked the return of business as usual for residents, workers, and students in Virginia Beach.

Of course, even though the city was aiming for "normalcy," as the city's public school Superintendent Aaron Spence put it to USA Today, that was a nearly impossible task. Monday was instead marked by memorial services, government building closures, and other moments of remembrance for the 12 victims of Friday's mass shooting.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.