A man who allegedly was threatening a sheriff’s deputy with an unidentified object Monday night was shot and killed by the deputy outside a northern Virginia hospital.
(FOX)- Police initially said the unidentified man’s injuries weren’t life threatening.
The incident began when Inova Fairfax Hospital security reported a person with an “edged weapon” at a campus bus stop Monday night, police said in a statement. A deputy on assignment at the hospital found the man, who allegedly started giving threats.
“Some sort of confrontation took place,” Officer Don Gotthardt, a police spokesman, told The Washington Post.
The deputy then fired his weapon, striking the man.
Three officers arrived shortly afterward and rendered aid to the man until he could be taken to the hospital, WUSA9 reported.
The sheriff’s office announced it would conduct an internal investigation and the deputy would be on routine administrative leave. Police didn’t release the names or races of the man or the deputy.