A divided Virginia Supreme Court docket reversed a $1 million jury award towards a detective who fatally shot a person in 2019, discovering the officer’s movement to strike ought to have been granted as a result of there was uncontradicted proof that established the capturing was justified.
In 2019, a member of the family referred to as Virginia Seashore Police when Jeffrey Tyree was exhibiting indicators that he was having a psychological well being disaster and roughly 10 to fifteen officers arrived on scene. Tyree held a six-inch “military-style knife,” and officers tried to deescalate the scenario for greater than two hours.
