Two Virginia Beach police officers shot dead during late-night traffic stop

[1srelluc]

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Two young police officers in Virginia are dead after a late-night traffic stop ended in a fatal shooting.

Officers Cameron Girvin, 25, and Christopher Reese, 30, were pronounced dead at hospitals after the shooting, according to Virginia Beach Police Chief Paul Neudigate.

The pair, who were riding together Friday night, pulled over a car for an expired license plate at about 11:27 p.m., Neudigate said during a news conference Saturday.

The traffic stop happened near the intersection of Lynnhaven Parkway and Wendfield Drive in Virginia Beach, next to an apartment complex.

Both officers approached the vehicle, and the male driver, later identified as convicted felon John McCoy III, was immediately argumentative and refused to get out of the car.

At some point, he got out of the car, and there was a "tussle" between the officers and McCoy.

McCoy pulled a pistol from his pocket and immediately shot the two officers.

While they were on the ground "defenseless," he shot them each a second time, according to Neudigate.

Officers found McCoy in a shed directly behind the apartment complex with a fatal gunshot wound to the head less than an hour after the shooting.

The gunshot wound appeared to be self-inflicted, according to authorities.

More to come as I find out more.....One of the officers was a neighbor of my daughter. She just called me about it. I think it happened late friday night/Saturday morning.

No pic of the felon perp that I can find yet.

 

[The Duke]

Gun laws didn't stop him.
In a way, the law did, though.
He knew there was no way out. Too bad he took two lives before he learned.

 

[1srelluc]

Boy, they have done a good job at scrubbing any info about the perp.

 

[The Duke]

Boy, they have done a good job at scrubbing any info about the perp.

I bet he's black or white.
He's either black American or looks like the McCoys.
Cracker with a gnarly beard. You know, like the Hatfields and McCoys?
That could happen 'round Virgina.

 

[Correll]

Boy, they have done a good job at scrubbing any info about the perp.

i do appreciate that the perp saved society the trouble of a trial and feeding his ass for the rest of his life.

 

[sealybobo]

Boy, they have done a good job at scrubbing any info about the perp.

Fox News and Newsmax too?

 

[sealybobo]

I bet he's black or white.
He's either black American or looks like the McCoys.
Cracker with a gnarly beard. You know, like the Hatfields and McCoys?
That could happen 'round Virgina.

Deplorable. Red neck White trash Blue collar.

 

[1srelluc]

Fox News and Newsmax too?

I can't find out anything about him.

 

[The Duke]

Deplorable. Red neck White trash Blue collar.

Oh shut up, you weird pervy Greek. Malakka.
Silly Boo Boo is of The Malakkia.
The AU term would be "Tosser".
I'm the Deplorable. Red neck White trash Blue collar.