Fairfax County police identify man shot & killed
by officers in McLean home Thursday
Friday, July 8th 2022
The victim this time was 26-year-old Jasper
Aaron Lynch.
The incident began just after 7 p.m. Thursday,
with a 911 call about "a man in crisis." Officers and a co-responding
clinician arrived at the home on Arbor Lane, but say they were unable to locate
the person they'd been called about.
"Arbor lane.. caller is back on the phone
saying subject is now throwing things," a dispatcher can be heard saying.
Police say officers returned to the home in
response to that second 911 call, this time without a clinician.
The cops explained returning without the clinician
"We're going to determine exactly where she was, but nature of the second
call was far different than the first call"
In other words “We need time to come up with a
story to cover our ass”
When officers arrived at the home that second
time, they say a "struggle" ensued, and allege that Lynch charged at
officers with "something in his hand". Lynch was holding a bottle and
an object believed to be a large, decorative tribal mask. They allege Lynch
threw the mask at an officer and began to swing the bottle in striking motion.
Police said they attempted to verbally
de-escalate the situation before two of the responding officers deployed their
tasers and a third officer fired his service weapon multiple times.
"We have one subject multiple shots in
the chest. We need an ambulance now," an officer can be heard saying on
dispatch audio.