Police chief: Fatal shooting of armed suspect justified

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Source: AP

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An armed suspect fired first at two police officers and they were justified in returning gunfire and killing the suspect, the police chief said Thursday.

Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham said it was not a racially charged shootout as some in the community have made it out to be. The suspect was a black man. One of the officers is black and the other is white.

"This is not Ferguson," the chief said, referring to the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a white officer a year ago in Ferguson, Missouri. The officer was cleared in that case, but the shooting set off protests and unrest.

In the Richmond shooting Wednesday night, officer Ryan Bailey and officer Jacob DeBoard responded to a report of an armed man in an area west of downtown, police said. They approached 20-year-old Keshawn Hargrove, a convicted felon, and he fled, police said.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/591758407e704e56a35001a00033f9cd/white-officer-recovering-after-shootout-black-suspect

[Lil Missy]

1. Sounds like a justified shoot. The man shot at, (and wounded) the police, they fired back.

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Yes, provided the police have been truthful

about the details.

[irisblue]

3. ^this^

now anytime I see an article about a police shooting, my first response has become...uhhh huh, lot of doubt.

[barbtries]

4. me too.

who can really argue that the police these days are not shooting people too much. my trust in them is pretty much gone.