‘Highly Unusual': Man Killed in Fairfax County Police Shooting Attacked Officer, Chief Says
A man died after he was shot by police in the Alexandria
section of Fairfax County on Thursday afternoon, police say, shutting down a
portion of Richmond Highway during rush hour.
Officers shot 38-year-old Brandon Lemagne of Newport News
in a McDonald's parking lot in the 6300 block of Richmond Highway, just south
of the Capital Beltway and the City of Alexandria, police said after 4 p.m.
An officer investigating a stolen U-Haul found at a gas
station interacted with the driver of the U-Haul, who attacked the officer,
pushing him into the driver’s seat of his cruiser and assaulting him from on
top of him, police said.
The officer under attack radioed he was being attacked and
his assailant had his gun, police said.
During the struggle, the cruiser went in reverse and spun
out of control into the parking lot of the McDonald’s next door.
A 24-year veteran of the police force responded and pulled
the suspect off the officer before shooting the suspect, police said.
“Officers discharged their firearms during the struggle.
The suspect was declared deceased at the scene,” police said in a brief
statement.
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