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A person stabbed 4 individuals, one fatally, before he was shot and killed by a Virginia State Police trooper on the Interstate 495 Beltway near Washington, DC, Sunday afternoon, authorities mentioned.
A canine was additionally stabbed to loss of life in the course of the incident, Virginia State Police mentioned in a information launch.
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The incident was described as highway rage and isn’t believed to be terrorism-related, officers mentioned.
The suspect, described solely as a male, confronted the responding state trooper with a knife and was shot in self-defense, police mentioned.
The sufferer who died was described as a 39-year-old girl.
Several lanes of the interstate had been closed as police investigated.
A person was driving together with his spouse when visitors slowed considerably and he noticed two automobiles “kind of banged up,” he advised NCS. He then noticed two individuals coated in blood.
He thought their accidents had been from an accident till he noticed a person with a knife, he mentioned.
A lady seemed to be attempting to cease the assailant, however the man stored swinging his knife, the witness mentioned.
“I just kept driving with the traffic,” he mentioned. “And I don’t know if I should have stopped or not, but it was really, it was really scary.”
A second witness described a lady coated in blood attempting to defend herself from a person.
Another witness, on his approach house from a weekend with household, noticed a scuffle he now believes was a stabbing. He then noticed a state trooper pull up and fireplace at the very least two to a few photographs on the man.
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