PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WVEC) -- SWAT team members and other police officers filled a mobile home park Thursday morning around 9:00 a.m. where someone opened fire on officers days earlier.
On Tuesday, police from Chesapeake followed a driver into Portsmouth after he refused to stop for them. Their pursuit ended at the park, where officers said the driver shot at them.
Portsmouth police officers did not indicate if the situation Thursday was connected to the incident from Tuesday, but Chesapeake Police confirmed the connection.
The Virginia State Police are taking the lead on investigating the officer-involved shooting, but Chesapeake Police will still handle the rest of the investigation.
After more than three hours, calling into the mobile home over a loudspeaker, and loud banging sounds the mobile home is damaged from the inside out.
Dianna Caruso said she knows the family who lives next door to her, inside the destroyed mobile home. She described her neighbors as an older lady, the lady’s niece, and a little infant.
"They are awesome people, they are cool people." Caruso said, "I mean I’m just baffled by what’s going on," said Caruso.
A number of people called 13News Now after seeing the large police presence in Victory Mobile Home Park.
"It’s been a heck of a situation. All of my 10 years of being there, off and on for 10 years I’ve been in there and I’ve never seen nothing like this," said Jim, a resident who called our station.
Chesapeake Police said they plan to send updated information on the investigation as soon as possible.
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