Fairfax Co. police confirm store shooting

A man was shot and hospitalized Saturday night in a shooting at a Food Star supermarket on Leesburg Pike in Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia.

Fairfax County police confirmed that the shooting happened just before 7 p.m.



A man told officers that he shot another unidentified man inside the store in self-defense.

Police said the shooter was cooperating, though the details of this event remain under investigation.

A map of where the shooting happened is included below.

 

Juan Herrera

Juan Herrera is an associate producer for WTOP News. He joined the radio news team in 2021 after previously working for WMAL News as a news assistant. He is a graduate of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

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