After chase, VBPD rescue suspect from sub-freezing water

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — The reason a suspect ran from Virginia Beach Police, and the reason officers stopped his vehicle, became irrelevant in the moments they worked to rescue the man from a frigid Lake Edward.

In video recently released by the Virginia Beach Police Department from the January incident, it shows officers in the moments after their pursuit of a man who ran from them after they had stopped his vehicle.

Those moments showed the officers’ encounter with the man in the sub-freezing water of Lake Edward, his life in danger, as they worked to rescue him…

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