CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — A Chesterfield police officer shot and killed one person in an exchange of gunfire near Brandermill, according to Chesterfield Police Chief Frank Carpenter.
The name of the deceased has not yet been released, and the officers involved in the shooting were not physically injured.
The shooting happened at about 5:30 a.m. Thursday outside the BP gas station along the 13600 block of Genito Road, near Charter Colony Parkway, according to police.
One hour before the shooting, police were alerted to reports of a gunshot fired and a disturbance in a neighborhood near the gas station.
"Officers received a description of the suspect. They responded to [the gas station] at 5:30 a.m., at which time they identified the subject that was involved in the previous disturbance," Carpenter said in his first briefing following the shooting. "The subject produced a firearm. A shot was fired. Officers engaged and returned fire. The suspect is now deceased."
Carpenter was not yet able to say how many shots were fired or if the deceased fired a weapon directly at the officers.
"There was a shot fired. We can only assume, based on the incident, that the officer assumed the shot was being fired at them," he said.
The nature of the initial shot fired and disturbance call also remains under investigation, he added.
"The welfare and safety of our officers is the top priority. We make sure we bring them in; make sure they're good to go," Carpenter said about what's next for his officers. "There are resources that are provided to those officers to ensure that they're in a good state of mind. There's an administrative duty aspect that they go into, and we continue to conduct the investigation going forward while they are on administrative leave."
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