RICHMOND, Va. -- A Richmond Police officer shot a suspect armed with a gun after responding to a domestic dispute call in South Richmond Tuesday night. The suspect was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Richmond Police spokesman Gene Lepley said.
A neighbor called police to the 1800 block of Fernbrook Drive at about 10:23 p.m. Tuesday when someone outside an apartment reported a domestic dispute happening inside an apartment.
When officers arrived, they heard the dispute from the apartment's door. The officers kicked in the door and encountered an armed suspect inside, Lepley said.
At some point the suspect raised a weapon at the officers which prompted one officer to fire multiple shots at the suspect, Lepley said. Police recovered the suspect's weapon, but did not say whether it was loaded. No officer was seriously hurt.
The two officers involved the shooting were placed on paid leave pending the outcome of the investigation into the shooting.
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