Police officers set up a perimeter around the residence, blocked a segment of adjoining Backlick Road and advised area residents to stay in their homes. Photo courtesy of Fairfax County Police
A 67-year-old Springfield man is dead after Fairfax County Police spent two hours outside a residence in the 7000 block of Leewood Forest Drive trying to make contact with him.
Police initially responded to a domestic violence call for service from the man’s spouse around 10:24 a.m. on Sunday, April 10.
The woman told police her husband was upset and had been pointing a handgun at her and threatening her. When she left the house, uninjured, she said she thought she heard gunshots.
Police officers set up a perimeter around the residence, blocked a segment of adjoining Backlick Road and advised area residents to stay in their homes.
After police obtained a warrant for the man for brandishing a firearm, they tried for two hours to make contact with him. When he didn’t respond, Special Operations Division officers used an expandable tool to better see into the residence, at which point they saw him lying dead on the floor.
While the medical examiner’s office will make an official determination of the man’s cause of death, a police spokesman said based on what officers learned at the scene, they think the man shot himself.