The former police officer of Virginia who killed the suspect of robbery to be sentenced

Fairfax, Va. – A former police officer of Northern Virginia will be sentenced on Friday, two years after fatally shooting a suspect of robbery in stores outside a busy shopping center in Fairfax County.

Sentences established for a fatal shooting incident at Tysons Corner Center

What we know:

Wesley Shifflett, a former Fairfax County Police sergeant, shot and killed Timothy McCree Johnson, an unarmed man, after a short persecution of the feet outside the center of Corner Tysons in February 2023. Shifflett and another Fairfax County officer pursued Johnson after the security guards reported that Johnson had solar glasses from a store in the Nordstrom department in the municipal.

Prosecutors argued that Shifflett acted recklessly during the incident. During the trial, Shifflett said he saw Johnson, 37, reaching his waist after falling during persecution and feared he could draw a weapon. Police looked for a gun but found nothing.

Shifflett testified in his own defense, claiming self -defense. The images of the police chamber showed the night persecution and shots. Both officers opened fire, but Shifflett shot the fatal shot. Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis dismissed Shifflett shortly after the shooting for violating department’s use policies.

Initially, a grand jury refused to accuse Shifflett in the shooting, but the lawyer of the Commonwealth of Fairfax County, Steve Estate, searched and received the approval of the Court for a large large jury to reinvest, which said he gave the prosecutors greater supervision of the investigation.

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Prosecutors faced difficulties in presenting their case against Shifflett, and the trial faced multiple delays. At one point, defense lawyers sought a null trial, arguing that the final argument of prosecutors included evidence never introduced into the trial.

A jury acquitted Shifflett of involuntary homicide last October, but condemned him for the reckless handling of a firearm in relation to the shooting. Shifflett will be sentenced on Friday by the position of firearm, a punishable crime with up to five years in prison.

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