Fairfax deputy sheriff shoots man during confrontation outside hospital
A Fairfax County sheriff’s deputy shot and wounded a man during a confrontation Monday night outside Inova Fairfax Hospital, the county police said.
The man was taken into the hospital and first reports indicated that his condition was not life-threatening.
He came to the deputy’s attention shortly before 10 p.m. when hospital security personnel reported a man outside a hospital garage with “some sort of edged weapon,” said Officer Don Gotthardt, a county police spokesman.
The deputy was on assignment at the hospital, and in uniform.
The deputy went to a bus stop where the man had been reported, and found him, Gotthardt said.
At that point “some sort of confrontation took place,” Gotthardt said. The confrontation ended, he said, when the deputy shot the suspect.
County police arrived, and administered aid until rescue personnel arrived.
No injury was reported to any deputies or officers.
The deputy will be placed on routine administrative leave, Gotthardt said. Police have taken responsibility for the criminal investigation, he said.
Gotthardt said no other suspects were involved, and the public faced no threat.
Neither the deputy nor the suspect were identified as of early Tuesday morning. The nature of the weapon the man reportedly had was not specified.
The hospital is on Gallows Road in the central part of the county, south of Interstate 66 and west of the Capital Beltway.
The sheriff’s office and police have generally separate roles in Fairfax County. In the county, the responsibilities of the sheriff’s office include management of the county’s detention center, providing courthouse security and serving court papers in civil matters.
Deputies sometimes are called on to escort detention center inmates to medical facilities for treatment.
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