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"Just days after state troopers and a local police officer shot a murder suspect to death in Colonial Heights, some of those same troopers allegedly entered a secure evidence lot to show acquaintances the suspect's bullet-riddled pickup truck." ...
"The incident raises further concern about the judgment and training of the officers, five of whom were placed on paid administrative leave - a standard practice - pending the state police investigation of the Oct. 24 shooting of Bruce Thompson."
"Residents of the neighborhood where Thompson was killed have already questioned the officers' use of force."
"Four state troopers and a Colonial Heights police officer used semi-automatic rifles to kill Thompson as he lurched his truck slowly toward a police barricade. A fifth trooper used a handgun."
"Thompson and his truck were showered with a hail of .223-caliber bullets from the patrol rifles, most of which were the state police's Colt M4 carbines."
"A nearby home with three people inside, including an infant, was hit between 20 and 30 times, its owner said. No one in the house was injured." ... |
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