CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — A Chesterfield police officer was shot early Friday morning after responding to a call at the Meadowbrook Apartments, Crime Insider sources told Jon Burkett.
The officer was shot in the leg and is expected to survive, those sources added.
At least one person has since been taken into custody.
"Following a brief barricade situation, the suspect was taken into custody by police at about 7 a.m.," a Chesterfield police spokesperson said. "The investigation is ongoing and charges for the suspect are pending. No one else was physically injured in the incident."
Police were called to the 5200 block of Whetstone Road, off Cogbill Road, at about 6 a.m. to investigate a domestic call. A call for EMS was logged about 10 minutes later.
Cathy Ashe, who lives inside the apartment complex, saw officers taking photos inside a police cruiser before it was driven away.
She said her husband woke her up and alerted her to a large police presence outside her front door.
"It was just droves and droves of police cars and police. I noticed that they were up in front of that apartment, but like, making sure nobody goes in it or close or something. That's what I got from it," Ashe described.
A detective was seen using a drone to capture aerial images of the complex from the air.
The large-scale investigation and the number of officers who showed up in Ashe's neighborhood concerned her family.
"We were smacked in the face with it, you know? And just like we're wondering, how much safer is this going to be here?" Ashe stated.
A representative of the apartment complex applauded the quick response by Chesterfield Police and was grateful no one else in her community was injured.
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