West Virginia regulation enforcement officers on Wednesday shot and killed a Culpeper man on a federal freeway after they are saying he fled a car crash scene, stole a pickup truck and led police on a chase.
The occasions in Bradley, W.Va., main as much as the capturing dying of 36-year-old Matthew Scott Jones are nonetheless underneath investigation, West Virginia State Police Capt. R. A. Maddy stated in a information launch issued Thursday, in line with Related Press.
The 6’4″ Jones was killed July 6 on U.S. Route 19 in Bradley, a neighborhood of fewer than 2,000 individuals. In Culpeper, a city and county of 52,000, the deceased man was identified to native authorities, an official stated.
Jones had a collection of DUI convictions and probation violations right here spanning 2011-2022, in line with court docket information.
A video of Wednesday’s capturing in West Virginia, which information shops reported was recorded by a passerby from a automotive, has been circulating on social media, in line with the Related Press.
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In it, Jones walks onto the freeway whereas holding what seems to be a handgun. At the least a half-dozen regulation enforcement officers are in pursuit with their weapons drawn.
Jones alternately factors the thing in his hand at his head and raises it within the air a number of instances whereas going through the officers after which turning his again and strolling away.
An officer shoots Jones, who falls to the bottom. Then authorities hearth a number of extra instances, at the same time as he lies unresponsive, AP reported of the video.
“Throughout a brief standoff, the suspect continued to brandish a handgun, leading to gunfire from regulation enforcement, inflicting the suspect’s dying,” police stated within the information launch.
Jones first got here to the authorities’ consideration Wednesday morning once they obtained 911 calls about an armed suspect fleeing from a crash scene in Raleigh County, in line with the discharge.
In line with the assertion, Jones then stole a pickup truck and fled in an unknown route. A short while later, he was positioned at a mall within the stolen car. Jones refused to cease for officers, who chased him in two counties. Jones bought out of the truck after it grew to become disabled off Route 19, authorities stated.
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