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The 2010 Appomattox shootings was a mass murder in Appomattox, Virginia that occurred on January 17 and 19, 2010. Christopher Bryan Speight shot his sister, her husband, and her son and daughter at their home, as well as four other people. He then escaped into a forest and shot at a police helicopter searching for him, but eventually surrendered himself to authorities. On February 15, 2013, Speight was sentenced to life imprisonment. ==The Shooting== The incident began on January 19, when police were called to a road outside Appomattox on a report of a man who required medical attention. When police arrived, they were fired on by the suspect, Christopher Bryan Speight, who also fired on a police helicopter, forcing it to make an emergency landing. Shortly afterwards, the suspect fled to a wooded area, where a force of more than a hundred police officers surrounded him. No officers were injured in the attacks, though eight civilians were killed: three were killed on January 17 in a house co-owned by the gunman (his sister and the house's co-owner, Lauralee Sipe, and her husband, Dwayne Sipe, both 38, and their four-year-old son, Joshua), and two days later, four others died outside the house, with the last victim dying on the road.〔 Police said that the victims were both men and women, and all were previously acquainted with the suspect. No motive was known, and Speight was believed to have acted alone. He surrendered on January 20, near the same wooded area where police thought he had been surrounded. He was wearing a bulletproof vest, but without the high-powered rifle believed to be the weapon used. Police put a school and local businesses on lockdown, and advised residents to lock their houses and not go outside. Police were concerned that Speight's house had been rigged with explosives, and a bomb squad searched the building the morning after the attack. Explosives were found both inside and around the building, and were detonated safely.〔 The house had sat unsecured for more than twelve hours as state police assumed local deputies had secured the house and vice versa. Speight was employed as a security guard for Old Dominion Security at the time of the incident.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Speight Gun Permit )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2010 Appomattox shootings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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