Residents and fellow police officers wait to salute Loudoun County Sheriff’s Deputy Camron Gentry as he left Reston Hospital Center Saturday after recovering from a shooting at a local Walmart in early January. (Courtesy Fairfax County Police)
Well-wishers turned out in cold and icy weather to salute Loudoun County Sheriff’s Deputy Camron Gentry as he left Reston Hospital Center on Saturday, recovering from his shooting more than a month ago.
“The reception was just outstanding, it was just a crowd of people that were at the hospital, coming out in this bad weather…there must have been hundreds of people out there, it was just wonderful to see so much support,” said Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman.
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County supervisors have voted to donate $10,000 to the Loudoun First Responders Foundation, asking the organization to use the money to support the long-term recovery of Loudoun County Sheriff’s Deputy Camron Gentry.
Gentry and two Walmart loss prevention officers were shot as they sought to detain a man at the Sterling Walmart Jan. 2. Police pursued a suspect down Rt. 28 into Fairfax County before being arresting him on Pennsboro Drive in Chantilly after a nearly two-hour search. Steven E. Thodos has been arraigned in General District Court on 11 felony charges.
The two Walmart employees have both been released from the hospital, but according to the latest updates from a GoFundMe page supporting his recovery, Gentry remains hospitalized undergoing physical therapy, with extensive additional surgeries still planned.