Dewayne Craddock, the Virginia Beach shooter, a city engineer, appeared to have no motive for his killing spree which left 12 dead. He handed his resignation in hours before for personal reasons he said and had not been forced to resign and was “in good standing in his department.” Though some colleagues said he had been acting oddly in the weeks before.
Born 15 October 1978, he was a controlling Sun Pluto in Libra possibly opposition an Aries Moon; with a vengeful Mars in Scorpio in a volatile conjunction with Uranus and an amped-up Venus. He also had Mercury in Scorpio – so he would keep many of his thoughts and feelings under wraps with a strong Pluto and four Scorpio planets. Plus he had a can-be neurotic Saturn square Neptune.
In recent years the tr Pluto square tr Uranus had been colliding with his Pluto and Sun, with the challenges still in place this year. And his Solar Arc Saturn has been moving in a depressing conjunction to his Pluto, then Sun/Pluto and aiming for his Sun within months. Exactly now tr Pluto is in a tense and rage-filled square to his Mars/Node midpoint; with tr Uranus exactly opposing his Sun/Mars midpoint which is hot-blooded and reckless as well as potentially violent. And tr Uranus has just cleared the opposition to his Mars/Pluto in the run up which is equally catastrophic and potentially brutal.
Such a waste. If he wanted to commit suicide, even by cop, why take others with him?