RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – The latest on a police shootout involving two officers that left an armed suspect dead and an officer wounded (all times local):
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The Richmond police chief says an armed suspect who was killed in a shootout with police fired first and his two officers were justified in returning fire.
Chief Alfred Durham says it was not a racially charged shooting as some in the community have made it out to be. The suspect was black. One of the officers is black and the other is white.
“This is not Ferguson,” the chief said, referring to the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a white officer a year ago in Ferguson, Missouri. The officer was cleared in that case, but the shooting set off protests and unrest.