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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