Two police officers in Virginia were shot dead and killed during a Friday night’s stopping, authorities said, and the suspected shooter was later found dead.
Employees Christopher Reese and Cameron Girvan were on a patrol when they noticed a blue Hyundai Sonata with an expired registration platter and tried to pull the vehicle, but the sedan refused to stop, Virginia’s police chief Paul Noodage said at a press conference. The officers followed the car before a deadly shooting happened, Naudgita said.
“We have a video of all this and I will tell you that it is quite horrifying,” Naudgithal told reporters.
When the two officers approached the sedan and told the driver to get out of the car, the driver refused and was “immediately argumentative,” Naudgita said.
At one point, the driver got out of the car and went into reflection with Reese and Girwin. During Tiza, Najgatid said the driver had removed a gun from his pocket and shot the officers.
“While defenseless on earth, he shot them a second time,” the police chief said.
“After executing our officers, he calmly walked away.”
Subsequently, employees and paramedics arrived at the scene, and Reese and Girvan were taken to local hospitals, where they were killed by their injuries.
Meanwhile, other Virginia Beach police officers searched the suspect area, which was found dead in a shed behind the apartment complex, where traffic stopped. The suspect, who does not identify himself as 42-year-old John McCoy III, believes he died of a self-inflicted firearm wound. The medical examination put the time of death shortly after stopping the movement.
McCoy had a sentence for a 2009 crime, Neudigate added. It is a crime for a convicted criminal to own a firearm, but the police chief did not go into details about the gun and how it was obtained.
There was another person in the vehicle with suspects, but no accusations were expected, Nadgiga said.
Police chief and Virginia Mayor Robert Dyer have requested the public for patience while working on the investigation and “grieving for the loss of theirs.”
“No words can relieve pain and loss,” Dyer said on Saturday.
Reporter Jen Kigigans, who represents Virginia Beach, said in a social media publication that the whole community complains of the death of the two police officers.
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