Police: Man who entered dwelling fatally shot by house owner in Fairfax

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A person is useless after a taking pictures in Fairfax County that police consider was achieved in self-defense.

In response to the Fairfax County Police Division, officers responded to a home on the 11400 block of Waples Mill Street within the Oakton space simply after 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9. After they acquired there, they discovered 24-year-old Eduardo Santos inside with gunshot wounds to hit higher physique.

Life-saving measures had been tried however hearth division and EMS personnel pronounced Santos useless on the scene.

It was decided that the house owner noticed Santos on his property and informed him to go away. Santos refused and attacked the house owner with a stick. The house owner then tried to run inside the home however was tackled by Santos.

The house owner made it inside and grabbed a gun. Santos adopted him inside with a big rock and made it a number of ft inside earlier than he was shot by the house owner. Two different adults and two youngsters had been in the home on the time, none of whom had been injured.

Detectives are nonetheless working to find out what led Santos to the home. After canvassing the neighborhood, they discovered that residents had known as police twice to report seeing Santos performing suspiciously. The primary time, officers responded however he refused to talk to him and the second time, the responding officers couldn’t discover him.