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Fairfax county police shoot and kill man during parking lot struggle
Uploaded On:Friday 26th of May 2023
Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, said one of their officers shot and killed a man in a McDonald’s parking lot after that man assaulted another officer and stole his service weapon while inside a police cruiser. The shooting happened near the intersection of Route 1 and N. Kings Highway, in the Huntington area, around 4 p.m. No officers were shot during the incident. Video shows the cruiser reversing out of a Citgo gas station and crashing at the McDonald’s. Gunshots can be heard before a responding officer approaches the crashed cruiser, pulls the man who was on top of the other officer out of the police car, and shoots him. Police said it all started when one of their officers spotted a U-Haul that had been reported stolen out of Richmond, Virginia, at the gas station, which is right next to the McDonald’s. When the officer showed up to the Citgo, the driver of the U-Haul was already outside the vehicle. Shortly after the officer made contact with the driver, the driver shoved the officer into his own police cruiser, according to Fairfax County Chief of Police Chief Kevin Davis. “The assailant in this matter shoved our police officer into the open, front driver’s door of his marked police car and was attacking him, was on top of him, and was violently assaulting our uniformed Fairfax County Police officer,” Davis said. The cruiser was then put into reverse, and spun from the gas station to the McDonald’s parking lot, crashing into bushes and a parked car along the way, according to Davis. “All the while, our police officer is on his radio, making several radio transmissions that he’s being attacked. He also relays during his radio transmissions several times that our assailant has his gun, has his gun,” Davis said. “He was fighting for his life, literally.” Responding officers arrived at the McDonald’s and one of them started firing several rounds. Another officer ran toward the crashed cruiser and pulled the assailant off the police officer who had been attacked, Davis said. “Then that Fairfax County Police officer discharges his firearm, striking the assailant, who was pronounced dead on the scene.”

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