Ryan Keith Cox, a Virginia Beach mass shooting victim, died saving coworkers during a deadly workplace shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center.
Ryan Keith Cox, a Virginia Beach mass shooting victim, found safety as shots rang out in his workplace Friday. But then he left the refuge to save more lives.
“This gentleman got seven or eight women to safety. One was my sister,” Bobbie Stockton of Norfolk told Heavy.
Stockton’s sister, Christi Dewar, survived the shooting, along with at least six others who Cox led to safety in a break room at Building 2 of the Virginia Beach Municipal Center Friday afternoon.
Dewar and Cox, who his friends called Kieth, were close. They started work on the same day almost 13 years ago as account clerks for public utilities.
The two had desks close to each other, and fled the shooting together. After finding safety, Dewar realized he wasn’t planning to stay.
“He said, ‘You’re safe now. You stay,’ and then went to get others,” Stockton said.
Here’s what you need to know:
Stockton heard on the news that an active shooter was at her sister’s office. Reality set in when she saw her sister’s car on the news surrounded by police with weapons drawn.
