CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — A weekend shootout between Chesterfield Police and a fleeing driver remains under investigation Monday, according to Chesterfield Police.
The driver, whose name has not yet been confirmed and released, was killed after firing at multiple officers during a traffic stop early Sunday morning, according to Chesterfield Police.
Police provided the following account of what happened at about 4:45 a.m. Sunday:
“An officer initiated a traffic stop of a vehicle that was driving erratically on Iron Bridge Road. The suspect vehicle stopped on Jessup Road just off Iron Bridge Road, and the driver quickly exited his vehicle,” a Chesterfield Police spokesperson wrote in a Monday afternoon account of what happened the day before. “The officer repeatedly ordered the driver to get back into his vehicle. The driver did not comply; he instead approached the officer, resisted the officer’s attempts to detain him, and began struggling with the officer.”
It was during the struggle that police said the driver struck the officer several times and tried to get a hold of the officer’s gun.