By Heather Curtis – WMAL.com
Loudoun County Sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a woman who lunged at them with a knife early Friday morning, and a Frederick County Sheriff’s deputy shot and injured a man police say shot at him.
Around 4 a.m. Loudoun County Sheriff’s deputies got a call about an argument inside an apartment on Ellicott Square in Potomac Falls. Deputies found a 38-year-old woman, 15-year-old girl and two other kids in the apartment. The woman and 15-year-old had both been stabbed according to Virginia State Police who are doing an independent investigation of the incident at the sheriff’s request. The other two kids weren’t hurt.
The woman police think stabbed the two, 36-year-old Faubricia Gainer, came out of the apartment holding a knife and lunged at deputies according to Sheriff Mike Chapman. He says when Gainer ignored commands to drop the knife, the officers shot and killed her. The woman, who Chapman believes was a close friend Gainer’s, and teenager were taken to Inova Lansdowne Campus of Inova Loudoun Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
“I’m not exactly sure, what all, how this all evolved and why there was the incident between the two that resulted in our being called to the scene,” Chapan told WMAL.
Chapman said the motive is something Virginia State Police are looking into as part of an independent investigation. VSP will also look into whether the body cameras the deputies were wearing were turned on.
The three deputies involved weren’t hurt; they’re on administrative leave.
Earlier Friday morning, around 2:45, a Frederick County Sheriff’s deputy doing St. Patrick’s Day drunk driving patrol tried to pull over a man on I-270 near Route 85 who he said was speeding and possibly drunk.
Sheriff Chuck Jenkins said 28-year-old Hagerstown resident, Lookman-Khalil Abolajo Bello, refused to stop and led the deputy on a car chase before getting out of his vehicle in the Kingsbrook community and running. At some point, Jenkins said Bello shot at the deputy but missed. The deputy shot back, hitting Bello, who was was taken to Shock Trauma in Baltimore in stable condition.
At a press conference on Friday morning, Jenkins was asked the race of the men. He said Bello is black, and his deputy was white.
“Let me emphasize this, it makes absolutely no difference in the event. The fact is this man shot at my deputy first. The deputy rightfully returned fire to defend himself,” Jenkins said
The deputy was ok. The FCSO is working on filing charges against Bello.
“I can’t explain what’s happened to society here that all the sudden police have become targets. I don’t understand that. There’s no reason for it,” Jenkins told reporters at a press conference Friday morning.
Jenkins said the deputy was not wearing a body camera. The county’s still implementing a pilot body-cam program, but the deputy’s team has not yet been given them.
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