Sheriff’s Deputy Involved in
INOVA Hospital Shooting
is Cleared
Authorities said it appeared
Jovany Amaya Gomez, 29, was having some sort of "mental episode." The
hospital had released him.
By Mary Ann Barton (Patch Staff)
- December 17, 2016 2:01 am ET
FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA -- A sheriff's
deputy has been cleared in a fatal shooting from Aug. 15 at INOVA Fairfax
Hospital, FCPD announced Friday afternoon. Jovany Amaya Gomez, previously
identified as Giovanny Martinez, 29, died after he was shot by the deputy. He
had approached a police officer earlier in the day because he was suicidal, and
the officer had called an ambulance for him, the Washington Post reported.
After he was released from the hospital, waiting at a bus stop, he charged at a
sheriff's deputy carrying a metal sign post. The deputy shot and killed him,
police said.
"Fairfax County
Commonwealth’s Attorney Raymond F. Morrogh has informed Colonel Edwin C.
Roessler Jr., Chief of the Fairfax County Police Department, that he finds no
basis for criminal liability on the part of the Fairfax County Deputy Sheriff
involved in the deployment of deadly force on Monday, August 15, 2016, on the
campus of INOVA Fairfax Hospital," a statement reads from the police.
The Fairfax County Sheriff’s
Office will conduct an administrative investigation in accordance with its
standard operating procedures.
Martinez died at Inova Fairfax
Medical Campus, 3300 Gallows Road in Fairfax County. Authorities said it
appeared Gomez was having some sort of "mental episode." The incident
began Monday night, shortly before 10 p.m., when Inova Fairfax Hospital
security called the Fairfax County Department of Public Safety Communications
(DPSC) to report that a suspicious man with "some sort of edged
weapon" was seen at a bus stop outside the “green” garage on the
hospital's campus, police said.
A deputy with the Fairfax County
Sheriff’s Office, who was in uniform and on assignment at the hospital,
responded to the bus stop and located the suspicious man, according to police.
Police say the man threatened the officer with some sort of object and the
officer shot him. Police did not say what part of the man's body was hit.
Three Fairfax County police
officers arrived and began to render aid to Gomez, and personnel from the
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, already on scene at the hospital,
arrived and transported the man to the hospital a short distance away, police
said.
The man's condition was initially
said to be non-life-threatening, Fairfax County Police said. No deputies or officers
were injured. Police said that the deputy, who was placed on routine
administrative leave, has been with the Sheriff's Office for 18 years.
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