Just a few weeks after two law enforcement officials had been shot and killed in Harlem throughout a home disturbance name, two extra officers have been shot in killed at Bridgewater Faculty in Virginia.
ABC 7 is reporting that Campus Police Officer John Painter and Campus Security Officer J.J. Jefferson had been shot and killed yesterday (February 1) after responding to calls of an lively shooter on the campus. Often known as the “dynamic duo” to those that knew them, faculty president Dr. David W. Bushman launched a press release on the tragic taking pictures of the 2 pal. “These officers had been shut associates, identified to many people because the “dynamic duo,” Bushman wrote. ”John was J.J.’s greatest man in his marriage ceremony this yr. They had been beloved by college students, college and employees. I harm for his or her households and family members, as I do know all of us do.”
The incident unfolded after the campus police had been knowledgeable of an “unknown man” strolling across the campus and once they approached him, he fired on the officers hitting each of them. After the taking pictures befell police residences throughout the board had been alerted to an lively shooter on campus at 1:24 p.m and an enormous manhunt for the suspect started. Ultimately a suspect becoming the outline of the shooter was finally tracked down on Riverside Drive within the city.
“He then waded via the river and onto an island within the North River, which is situated within the city of Bridgewater,” police mentioned. The suspect was positioned into custody with out incident round 1:55 p.m.”
Such unhappy information. The alleged shooter, Alexander Wyatt Campbell, was then taken into custody and hit with a couple of costs that might see him behind bars for the rest of his life.
“Officers say a 27-year-old Ashland, Virginia man was charged within the incident. Alexander Wyatt Campbell was charged with 4 felonies — two felony counts of capital homicide, one felony depend of first-degree homicide, and one felony depend of use of a firearm within the fee of a felony. Campbell is being held with out bond on the Rockingham County Jail.”
Campbell suffered one non-life-threatening gunshot wound and police are investigating whether or not he the bullet got here from one of many officer’s weapons or if the wound was self-inflicted.
Weapons had been confiscated each on and off-campus however no phrase on motive at this level.
