A man was shot and killed by D.C. police Friday night in the Foxhall/Reservoir Road area west of Georgetown in Northwest Washington, authorities said.
The man was shot after lunging with a screwdriver and knife as officers were searching for him in a house in the 4400 block of Reservoir Road NW, said executive assistant police chief Andre Wright.
A man was shot and killed by D.C. police Friday night in the Foxhall/Reservoir Road area west of Georgetown in Northwest Washington, authorities said.
The man was shot after lunging with a screwdriver and knife as officers were searching for him in a house in the 4400 block of Reservoir Road NW, said executive assistant police chief Andre Wright.
He was not identified immediately.
The man had once shared the house with another person Wright said.
But the other resident had obtained a civil protection order two weeks ago against him after repeated threats and assaults, Wright said.
“He should not have been in there,” Wright said of the man who was killed. It was unclear why he went to the house Friday. However, Wright described the man’s actions as “erratic and illogical.”
The other resident was not there at the time, police said.
Wright said the man had been detained Thursday for an alleged violation of the protective order. On Friday evening when an alarm was triggered at the house, police recognized that the man had returned. It was not clear how they know who had set off the alarm.
However police went to the house Friday about 6:30 p.m. and saw the man. They tried for 20 minutes to persuade him to leave, Wright said. Finally they entered and began going through the house.
As an officer went to the second floor, Wright said, the man lunged at him. It was not clear exactly where the man came from, but when he lunged, he and the officer were in “close proximity.”
The man had the screwdriver in one hand and the knife in the other and left the officer with “no option but to use his firearm,” Wright said.
The officer was not named.
Wright said the shooting would be investigated by the police department and by the U.S. attorney’s office.
Fire and rescue personnel were sent to the scene about 7:20 p.m. and took the man to a hospital, the fire department said.
The site of the shooting is just west of Georgetown University Hospital, between 44th Street NW and Foxhall Road. It is a little less than a mile west of the Georgetown Branch of the D.C. Public Library on Wisconsin Avenue NW.
This is the second incident in which D.C. police have killed someone since the heightened law enforcement presence in Washington began in August.
Personnel from other law enforcement agencies patrolling the District have fired shots in at least two incidents since the surge began. No one was reported struck in either incident.
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