A police officer shot and killed a man who authorities say was armed with a knife outside a police and fire station in Prince William County, Virginia, early Thursday morning.
The shooting happened just after 5 a.m. outside the Department of Fire and Rescue Station 26 and the Central District Police Station on Davis Ford Road in Woodbridge, the Prince William County Police Department said.
A uniformed officer was completing a shift when they got information about a man in the back parking lot of the fire station, police said. The officer saw the man had a knife in his hand. Then, the man started approaching the officer, waving the knife toward the officer, police said.
The officer then told the man to drop the knife several times, but he didn’t comply and continued to come toward the officer, the department said.
At some point the officer fired at the man, hitting him in the upper body, police said.
More officers came to the scene along with medics who were at the fire station to give first-aid to the man. He died at a hospital a short time later, police said.
Police haven’t yet named the man.
The officer involved was put on administrative leave as authorities investigate. Prince William County Police Chief Peter Newsham requested the regional Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) to oversee the investigation as an independent body.
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