Here’s Lt. Donald Patchin of the Richmond Police Department:
“Almost simultaneously they received an update from dispatch that the subject had armed himself with a second edged weapon, so at that point the officers walked up to the front door of the residence, almost immediately after announcing their presence they were confronted by an armed subject directly in front of the front door of the residence. They encountered that individual and unfortunately at that time two officers discharged their weapons and an officer involved shooting did occur.”…