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Police kill Oakton man
On July 5, a 911 call from an apparently suicidal man in Oakton ended with police shooting and killing the caller, 54-year-old David Michael Przewlocki.
Fairfax County police arrived at Przewlocki's ground floor apartment on Summit Square Drive in response to his call at around 11:30 a.m. and found him standing on the sidewalk holding a gun.
The officers ordered Przewlocki to put the gun on the ground, but he refused and pointed the gun at the officers. The two officers immediately shot him, and Przewlocki was later pronounced dead at Inova Fairfax Hospital.
"That's the way you're trained. ... Somebody pointing a gun at you poses an immediate threat,” said police spokesman Officer Don Gotthardt.
This is the third incident of Fairfax County Police officers shooting an individual this year.
The first, in Springfield in January, also involved a man threatening police officers with a weapon, on that occasion, a knife. The second incident, also in Springfield, led to the end of an alleged shooting spree by Jeffrey Koger, who was implicated in an embezzlement scheme last year. Koger fired at officers with a shotgun, before being critically wounded himself.
At last week's shooting, criminal investigators were dispatched to the scene to collect evidence and the officers involved have been put on administrative leave pending an investigation. Such investigations are standard procedure for officer-involved shootings.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Crime Solvers by phone at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477), e-mail at www.fairfaxcrimesolvers.org or text “TIP187” plus your message to CRIMES (274637), or call Fairfax County Police at 703-691-2131.
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