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Virginia State Police are investigating the shooting death of a Black man by a Culpeper County sheriff’s deputy.
The Culpepper Star-Exponent reports that Donald Francis Hairston was shot after police were called for a welfare check to his home in a rural neighborhood.
State police said that Hairston shot a gun and pointed it at deputies before he was fatally shot.
State police told the newspaper on Friday that they had no new information to release.
A local pastor said Hairston was a U.S. Army veteran.
Rev. Adrian Sledge told the newspaper on Friday that Hairston struggled with issues from his military service and that police should have given more consideration to Hairston’s mental health.
By ALLISON BROPHY CHAMPION
Culpeper Star-Exponent
The 44-year-old man killed by a Culpeper County Sheriffâs Office deputy at his house on Thursday morning was an Army veteran who served honorably, according to a local pastor.
Donald Francis Hairston, an African-American, was shot to death by police called out for a welfare check to the home on Horseshoe Drive.
According to Virginia State Police, the agency in charge of the investigation, Hairston shot a gun and pointed it at deputies before he was fatally shot.
This is the second fatal shooting in three months by CCSO deputies of African-American men residing in this same rural neighborhood.
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