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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matthew Barakat

2nd grand jury indicts officer for involuntary manslaughter in Virginia mall shooting

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A special grand jury in Virginia indicted a former police officer on Thursday for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed shoplifting suspect outside a suburban shopping mall.

Wesley Shifflett, a Fairfax County police officer assigned to patrol the busy Tysons Corner Center shopping mall at the time of the shooting in February, was also charged with reckless discharge of a weapon.

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