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Man who was accused of killing 2 Virginia Beach Officers had criminal history

The records show that John McCoy III. In view of several federal liabilities and was later found guilty for his participation in a drug trafficking in 2009.

Virginia Beach, va. – New details have appeared on the federal penalty of the police in Virginia Beach that he shot and killed two officers – Cameron Girvin and Christopher Reese – in the service late Friday evening before they supposedly shot themselves.

Online court files from April 2009 show John McCoy III. And several other defendants were part of an indictment of the federal government who was associated with a ring of drug trafficking. The federal law enforcement authorities said that drugs were sold in Hampton Roads and other places such as Miami and Phoenix, even Central America.

According to this indictment, McCoy had around 480 pounds of marijuana in April 2006. The indictment also said that McCoy shot a man in the face and neck in retribution in October 2006 in October 2006 due to a drug -related burglary from December 2004.

Court files show that McCoy accepted a guilty plea in October 2009. As part of this request, he admitted to distributing the marijuana with the intention in April 2006 and owning the shootout in October 2006.

A judge McCoy sentenced records in January 2010 to 11 years in prison. The prison records then show McCoy's discharge from the federal prison in December 2017.

Records also show that the suspect's condemnation was requested for five years after his release of five years. However, records show that a judge – based on the recommendation of a probation helper – freed him from the supervised publication in October 2019, less than two years after his release of the federal prison.

According to the police late Friday evening, the officials Girvin and Reese tried to carry out a traffic stop on a vehicle that MCCOY drove due to expired number plates. Then she says that he was “immediately” “argumentative” and refused to leave the vehicle. When McCoy finally left the car, the police said that he had shot the officers Girvin and Reese twice each before “calm down”.

The police said that McCoy was later found in a shed nearby, where he lived, with a self -inflicted gunshot wound that seemed to have taken his life. The city's medical examiner has not yet decided the official cause of death, and the police have not identified a motif for the civil servants' shootout.