WTKR News 3 There are many victims. Police say these are non-life-threatening injuries. During the occurrence a shot from the police. The VBPD responded to a multi-part shootout at 5000 blk Cleveland St. Multiple victims. Non-life threatening injuries. Police fired shots during the incident. More information will follow as the research progresses. – Virginia Beach PD (@VBPD) March 26, 2022 An eyewitness said there was a large group of people outside at the scene of the shooting. calculate about 20-30. He tells us that he heard about 25 shots and took off running. “I was sitting there and all I saw was a bunch of people trying to get in and my gut instinct told me to get out of the way, shortly after I heard a bunch of gunshots followed by people pushing in the door.” The eyewitness said: “I ran on the street and heard many more shots, they just kept coming in, it was scary.” The man said there was security, but they failed to control the crowd. “There were so many people, you have two guys at the door and 30 guys trying to get in, you can’t stop that,” he said. This video taken by a viewer shows the chaos outside the West Beach tavern in Virginia Beach after shots were fired last night around midnight. We now know that four people were shot and two police officers shot at an armed suspect. We will have the latest at @ WTKR3 at 6 p.m. pic.twitter.com/XZIM5W2NIo – Ellen Ice (@ellen__ice) March 26, 2022 Virginia Beach police say that although the investigation is in its early stages, preliminary information indicates that shortly after midnight CSS officers saw several people fighting near the front of the West Beach tavern, which escalated into a shooting. The two police officers intervened and the two police officers shot at a man who was armed. Police say the man fled and has not yet been located or arrested. They say that at the moment, there is no indication that this person was shot by any of the missiles fired by the officers. Other police officers located two people who were injured in the shooting. A 17-year-old Newport News woman was injured by a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to her lower leg and a 21-year-old Newport News man was found with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his lower leg. , which according to the police is currently being investigated as potential suicide. Two additional victims were taken to hospital. A 37-year-old man from Chesapeake suffered a gunshot wound to his lower leg and a 27-year-old man from Norfolk was also injured by a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his lower leg. Both the initial shooting and the shooting involving police officers are being investigated by the VBPD Homicide Unit, which will then hand over its findings to the Commonwealth Office of the Commonwealth (OCA) in Virginia Beach. The OCA also responded to the scene and will conduct its own independent investigation into the police discharge. The VBPD Office of Home Affairs will also conduct an administrative investigation into the shooting. Both officers have been placed on probation due to Virginia Beach police proceedings.
