Fatal police shooting in Prince William was lawful, authorities say

Officers killed a 19-year-old man Sept. 1 in a gunfight that erupted during an undercover drug operation.

The deadly encounter occurred about 7 p.m. in the parking lot of a residential complex in Woodbridge, where the three men met with the undercover officer to sell the officer 1,000 pills of the synthetic opioid fentanyl and possibly a firearm, authorities said in a statement. Instead, the officer was robbed of the drug-buy money at gunpoint.

The office of Prince William Commonwealth’s Attorney Amy Ashworth announced Friday that it had found no “criminal liability” on the part of the officers after reviewing a report of the incident prepared by a “critical incident response team.” The team The undercover drug operation involved Prince William police, officers from the Manassas and Manassas Park police forces and agents of the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Authorities said in a statement that those agencies are “continuing their separate independent investigations into the shooting” to determine if their internal deadly-force policies were violated.

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