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| Two Virginia Beach police officers shot dead while 'defenseless' during late-night traffic stop |
| 2025-02-23 |
| [FoxNews] 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. While officials are still sorting out the motive, they said McCoy may have acted because he had a gun, a criminal offense as a felon. "We do know from his criminal history, he has one felony conviction from 2009, so it's not recent, but it does make him a felon," Neudigate said. "A felon with a firearm would be a new felony charge." While there was another person in the car with McCoy at the time of the traffic stop, no one else will be charged in the shootings, he said. |
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