A Washington, D.C., man is dead after police in Fairfax County, Virginia, responded to reports of a shoplifter.
According to the Fairfax County Police Department (FCPD), officers received a call on February 22 from asset protection officials at the Tysons Corner Center mall about a shoplifter stealing designer sunglasses from Nordstrom. Two FCPD officers, one in uniform and another in plain clothes, responded while the suspect was still on site. When they confronted the man, later identified as 37-year-old Timothy Johnson, he fled the store through the nearby parking garage. The officers chased him for about a quarter of a mile toward a wooded area, "giving verbal commands." According to the FCPD's statement, "while in the wooded area, two officers discharged their firearms striking Johnson in the chest one time." He later died at the hospital.
