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Posted on 09/09/2015 5:30:31 AM PDT by csvset
VIRGINIA BEACH
The vehicle pulled into a spot at a 7-Eleven parking lot, away from the business and its patrons.
Officers from a special operations unit had been following it for a half-hour before they pulled in behind it, police Chief Jim Cervera said Tuesday.
Four officers approached. The passenger fired four rounds, Cervera said. One pierced an officer's sleeve, but he was not struck.
Police returned fire - 30 rounds total, the chief said.
The passenger, Angelo Delano Perry, 35, of Virginia Beach, and the driver, India Kager, 28, of College Park, Md., were killed. Their infant son was in the vehicle but not harmed. Cervera said officers did not know the baby was there.
The exchange lasted less than 15 seconds Saturday night.
Cervera said the four officers were placed on administrative duty after the shooting at the intersection of Lynnhaven Parkway and Salem Road in the Princess Anne area.
"The officers did everything in their power to mitigate a violent confrontation," Cervera said. But it became one, and "we regret the loss of both Mr. Perry and Ms. Kager."
Police said Tuesday they recovered a 9 mm handgun that was used to fire at officers and a Tec-9 semi-automatic weapon that was in a bag at Perry's feet. Both were loaded.
Cervera said authorities had received information before the shooting that indicated Perry might be planning to commit a violent crime in Virginia Beach.
He was a "person of interest" in a homicide investigation, but Cervera said he couldn't release details.
Perry spent almost 13 years in prison after he was convicted of several crimes, including malicious wounding, use of a firearm in a felony and assault and battery on a law enforcement officer, according to Department of Corrections spokeswoman Lisa Kinney. He was released on mandatory parole in May 2014 and was on community supervision at the time of the shootout, records show.
Police would not identify the officers involved but said an internal investigation is taking place.
"Officers involved in deadly force situations take that with them for life.... They don't carry that lightly," Cervera said.
The commonwealth's attorney said in a statement Tuesday that the office is independently investigating whether the officers' use of deadly force was justified.
The office has three retired enforcement officers from outside Virginia Beach who are available to do such reviews, said Macie Pridgen, a spokeswoman for the commonwealth's attorney. One of them will conduct an investigation separate from the Beach police's with access to the same documents and interview subjects, she said.
Kager was stationed at Oceana Naval Air Station and served for four years before leaving the service in May 2013, according to the Navy. She was awarded a good conduct medal during her time.
Kager's mother, Gina Best, who lives in Maryland, told The Associated Press that Kager had been in Virginia Beach a couple of hours before the shooting. Best said that the infant is Kager's 4-month-old son, Roman, and that Kager's grandmother went to Virginia Beach to get him. Kager also had a 4-year-old son.
Best told the AP that her daughter recently got a job as a postal carrier near Washington. She said Kager's father and grandfather are retired police officers.
"I have to refer to my baby in the past tense," Best said. "That absolutely sends my psyche into a realm of darkness that I never wanted to experience."
Pilot writers Matt McKinney and Mike Hixenbaugh contributed to this report.
Katherine Hafner, 757-446-2705, katherine.hafner@pilotonline.com.
if there is one it was a lot away from the store
Different man -- her mother said the other father is an ex-husband, according to this article:
Police: Cops fired into car not knowing infant was inside
The above article also said:
Kager's mother, Gina Best, said... that it would have made more sense for police to wait until her daughter and her grandson were out of the car to apprehend Perry and that she doesn't believe that her daughter knew what Perry may have been involved in."My greatest fear is it will be doctored ... to make India seem like she's part of dark behavior. India was not of that element," Best said. "Her upbringing, everything about my daughter — she walked the straight and narrow. She was a wonderful person."
Sigh. Another Dindu Nuffin. The guy had two loaded guns on him in the car she was driving with her baby in the back, and she didn't know anything? Mother, please.
BTW, the article says she was a "culinary specialist." I guess that's Navyspeak for "cook." So, not many opportunities for good conduct medals except on a regular rotation.
Not enough information here for cheering.
Were the officers CLEARLY identifiable as police?
Did they identify themselves as police?
Why did they follow for 30 minutes?
Were the usual red and blue lights used first?
Or did four men in dark clothes jump out of a vehicle that had been suspiciously following the couple for half an hour and run towards the couples’ car? In which case most people would think “bad guys attacking:.
The all too common plain “uniforms” with “ghosted” insignia don’t belong as part of civilian police uniforms.
What next? Just a POLICE ball cap as in the Soylent Green movie?
This does NOT meet my standards of a “good shoot”.It is too much like the Cleveland execution of the couple in the parked car justified because the police mistook a backfiring engine for gunshots.
This is the kind of police action that gives ammunition to the blacks who call for murdering police.
You’d think everyone has had a chance to view the Chris Rock video on how to react to the PO-lice.
MARK
Many women crave excitement, danger, and thrills. Gangsters provide this in spades.
The Caddy can be seen briefly in video taken the night of the shooting. Virginia Beach Police on woman killed at 7-Eleven: ‘It was accidental. It was not intended’
I'd bet that the store's camera's (if they have any), would have caught the scenario as it unfolded.
The 7-11 is about a mile from my house. I could look and see if they're are camera's .
You conveniently missed the bit about him shooting at officers 4 times.
“Are women really attracted to thugs?!”
Once every four years!
“Four Virginia Beach officers fired 30 rounds in 7-Eleven shootout”
I am sure that the headline NOT mentioning that the officers returned fire is just an oversight on th epart of the Virginia Pilot.
Yeah sure.
That is not what I consider a “police uniform”, they are BDUs. Dress like a soldier, and after a while you think you are one.
If a rational CCW licensed individual had someone follow him for 30 minutes, then have 4 men in non-nondescript dark clothing converge on his car in a parking lot, the end result would likely be the same.
There are proper and safer ways to initiate a felony stop, but then you don’t get to shoot your toys as much.
Not saying the guy wasn’t a dirtbag, but this is not a success story for LEOs.
Unfortunately, a lot of women like the bad boys. I never understood it either, but it’s true.
I'm with you.
“I hope a loving home is in it’s future!”
Sad to think that this might be the best thing to happen to this kid.
How many of those rounds were NOT in the 'kill zone'?"
Anything over 2/30 "outside" calls for more practice...
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30 rounds? that's ten (10) "Mozambiques" -- shared between two (2) targets -- and four (4) LEOs...
That's seven (7) rounds per LEO -- (2)plus a couple of "extras". Doesn't sound like excessive firing to me -- considering that there were two targets (shooter & driver)-- and they were both shielded by being inside a vehicle...
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Can't help but wonder what fraction of 30 rounds four "professionals" put "in the zone(s)"...
Sorry but things can happen when you are in a car with someone who is shooting at a cop!
Hmmmm. Is there an ammo shortage in VB? Or was it a show of restraint. Thirty rounds from 4 officers seems low to me. Or maybe they only had 10 rd magazines/clips/feeding devices.
Pray that at least hes a blessing to the world and not a curse on it, like the two adults he was with.
Really??? You want the police to just chat with a career criminal who just fired at them??? Have you ever been a policeman?
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