FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — There was a heavy police presence in McLean after a struggle between officers and suspect lead to a deadly shooting Thursday evening.
According to a tweet from the Fairfax County Police Department, officers were called to a home just past 7 p.m. in the 6900 block of Arbor Lane for a report of a man throwing objects outside the house.
"(My wife) said she was approached by a police officer and asked if she had seen a young man," Robert Heitkamp, who lives nearby said.
"She asked if she should be concerned and the officer was nonchalant and said, 'No if the guy seems okay, just let him go on his way.'"
When officers arrived initially with a clinician in tow, the department claims they could not find the man and left. It is in the county's model that a clinician comes out with officers to investigate calls related to a mental health crisis. However, after receiving a second call around 8:45 p.m., which the chief described as "far different" in nature from the first, police then returned without the clinician and found the man with an object in his hand.
"An hour later we are eating dinner on the back porch we hear the police officers and the sirens-it was just surreal," Heitkamp said.
According to the chief, three officers entered the foyer of the home. The department said the man threw something at the officers and then charged at them. A struggle ensued between the man and the officers, according to the chief, at which point two officers discharged their taser-like electronic control weapons, while the third shot the man several times.
WUSA9 asked why the clinician wasn't with officers on the second call.
“We are going to determine where she was," Police chief Kevin Davis said. "But the nature of the second call was far different than the nature of the first. This happened very, very quickly."
Police said that the man who was shot dead is not the homeowner.
The unidentified man was pronounced dead at the scene. No officers were injured in the shooting.
This is a developing story. More details will be added as they become available.
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