NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A man was shot and killed by a Newport News police officer following a reported tactical situation at a mobile home park on Friday afternoon, police said.
It had been the second time in as many days police were called out to the location for a tactical situation at Davis Park Drive, off Jefferson Avenue. Authorities had first been called to the location on Thursday morning for reports of an armed, suicidal man.
The Newport News Police Department said officers, along with NNPD crisis negotiators, attempted to locate and make contact with the man, but were unsuccessful. Following that incident on Thursday, police said an arrest warrant for the man had been issued out of Chesapeake.
Officers returned to the location after noon Friday to conduct a welfare check and to serve the arrest warrant. Authorities said an adult woman was seen coming and going from the trailer where the man was believed to be inside. Police said several attempts were made to contact the person, including over the phone and with a PA system, but no one responded.
Police said the front door then began to open but no one exited. While still attempting to make contact, police said they heard the woman inside begin screaming. It was at this point police went inside the trailer, believing the woman to be in danger.
It was there that they allegedly saw the woman in a "violent struggle" with a man who was holding a gun. The man allegedly pointed the gun at police, at which point one officer discharged his own gun, hitting the man.
Police and medics began rendering aid to the man, and he was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Authorities said the woman was safely removed from the home, and that she, along with all police, were unhurt.
Police identified the man as 43-year-old David Noteboom of Newport News.
A woman who identified herself as the man’s girlfriend told 13News Now, the man wanted to harm himself. She said: “[Police] should have helped him, not shot him.”
People in the area say the shooting is a shock.
“It normally doesn’t happen up this way,” Keith Melvin said. “Mostly downtown, something like that would happen downtown. Not here. Not right on Jefferson Avenue. That mobile home has been quiet far as I know, all those years.”
The officers who were involved in the response and shooting have been placed on administrative leave, pending the investigation into the shooting.
It is the second shooting in less than a month involving a Newport News police officer. A man who was reportedly armed and suffering a mental health crisis was shot and critically injured on December 19. Three officers involved in that shooting are also on administrative leave at this time.