Incident FCPD-LETH-619

Date	May 19, 2012
Time	11:00 PM
Report #	FCPD-LETH-619
Department	Fairfax County Police
Officers	J. Kevin Clarke Jr
Address	5700 block of Backlick Road Springfield, VA

Incident Description

On the evening of May 19, Fairfax County Police officers claimed they were responding to a call received regarding a "wanted person. The officers (who came from both Patrol and K-9 Units) were soon inside the apartment of the individual they claimed had called. Inside, they found a 22-year-old man named Gray Alan Combs, Jr. in a bedroom. Officers were familiar with Combs from interactions the previous Friday.

The police officers claim that in response to them Combs then "threatened them with a sword;" they also complained that he "refused to obey [their] commands."

The group of officers began to fire a barrage of bean bag rounds and lethal bullets at Combs.... (Bean bag rounds were also fired at his head during the attack, for which one officer was reportedly placed on "routine administrative leave" after the incident).

Combs sustained severe injuries from the officers' attack and he was taken to the hospital, where he died three days later.

Gray Alan Combs, Jr. was 22 years old.

Links

"Man killed in standoff with Fairfax County police"
"Fairfax County police said the shooting occurred just after 11 p.m. when police responded to an apartment in the 5700 block of Backlick Road in Springfield for a report of a “wanted person.” Police discovered a man in a bedroom, and he then threatened them with a sword and refused to heed their commands, police said. Officers opened fire with “bean bag” rounds and real bullets, seriously wounding the man. He later died at a hospital, police said..... Officers were familiar with the subject.." - Washington Post
"Fairfax County police identify suspect killed in officer-involved shooting"
Washington Examiner