A Burke, Virginia, man is recovering from injuries after being shot by a Fairfax County police officer Sunday night.
Police officers, including “a co-responder team with a clinician,” responded to the 9700 block of Church Way, near the intersection of Covered Bridge Road, for a person in crisis at 10:13 p.m., according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
Police said when officers arrived on scene, they encountered a man outside a home.
At various points during negotiations between the man and Crisis Intervention Trained officers and Co-responder Units, police said he presented a firearm and “armed himself with chain saws, an ax, and a blowtorch.”
Officers eventually fired, what police described as two “less-than-lethal beanbag projectiles” at the man before an officer used their firearm, striking the man in his lower body.
After being shot, the man was transported to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
The officer who shot him was placed on restricted duty status, which is routine after a shooting.
A map of where the shooting happened is below.
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