A man has been killed after he was shot by police near Springfield Town Center.
Fairfax County police have not yet named the 37-year-old man, as they are waiting to notify his relatives. They said the man was wanted over an incident that happened Sunday, after police said he stole a handgun from a family member in Fairfax County, fired the weapon inside the house, and fled on foot, Deputy Chief Brian Reilly, with Fairfax County police, said Thursday night.
“Since Sunday, our fugitive warrant squad has been tracking this 37-year-old gunman,” Reilly said.
Fairfax County police Chief Kevin Davis said the man, who lives in Fairfax County, is “very well-known to the criminal justice system.”
Police received a tip that the man would be at the Springfield Town Center Thursday afternoon. Officers working the Summer Crime Initiative, who received a picture of the man and a lookout vehicle, saw the man and the car around 4:30 p.m.
The man jumped back in his parked car. That’s when officers approached and started to give commands for him to show them his hands and drop the gun “at least 20 times,” Davis said.
Police reviewed the officers’ body camera footage and said that at least one of the officers yelled out that he could see a gun in the man’s hand. Davis said all three officers were wearing their body cameras and were in full uniform.
The officers kept telling the man to drop the weapon, and after he did not, two of three officers discharged their weapons, striking the man, Reilly said. No officers were hurt.
Police then smashed the window of the man’s locked vehicle, pulled him out and gave him first aid. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Police found a “semi-automatic pistol” at the scene.
From helicopter footage, the parking area near the Target showed police tape Thursday evening, where a large police presence gathered.
This shooting comes less than two weeks after a shooting inside Tysons Corner Center.
Abigail Constantino started her journalism career writing for a local newspaper in Fairfax County, Virginia. She is a graduate of American University and The George Washington University.
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The culture of violence continues. Great job by the police to get this career thug off the streets. We just need more funding for the police.
Great news, more of that culture of violence that is prevalent in Republican-led states with guns guns guns everywhere. And with the recent decision by the radical extremist SCOTUS, more and more of this will be happening in our communities.
2 fold of democrats doing what democrats do. 1) Obviously the criminal activity, should go without saying. 2) democrats that run this website painting our police in a bad light.
Not in the article, they asked him 20 times to drop this weapon. Now, if this were the story of the two La Plata, Md. officers at the Car Wash Bonzai that'd be different. But even then, those officers put themselves in that position.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=xWm5w0x9Vz4&feature=emb_title
Car Wash Bonzai.
**Banzai.
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Of course the information is irrelevant to you, everything that happened from your perspective was the guns own doing. Not the guy stealing a weapon, then discharging a weapon, fleeing the scene,.and then refusing to comply with police. Wow, guns must have an higher IQ than you if they are able to do all of that all on their own!
The culture of the brazen stupidity of your comments continues...
Democrats, Democrats Democrats, everywhere! Living by their passions, unable to control their "feelings". THAT is the driving force being increasing crime, that and soft-headed "Justice" officials that are working hard to keep these creatures on the streets, to torment and kill NORMAL people.
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