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Stafford deputies on leave in shooting case

Man was threatening suicide.

Bill Dubensky
WFLS News

Date published: 6/30/2008

Four Stafford Sheriff deputies will remain on routine administrative leave for now. They'll stay that way pending the investigation into the shooting of a man Sunday night around 11 o'clock. Deputies were called to a house on Myrtle Road in South Stafford for a man threatening to kill himself.

When deputies arrived on the scene they ordered the man to show his hands, he did not. Deputies fired two tasers that were ineffective. While the man was in the process of raising his hand gun he was shot and killed. Only one deputy fired his weapon.

The sheriff's Office is working the investigation along with with the Commonwealth Attorney's Office and the Virginia Medical Examiner's Office.

Jordan von Schwanitz (center), a neighbor of David C. Gandy, explains how he was talking to Gandy - who had a gun and was threatening suicide - when Stafford County deputies entered the yard by the gate (left) and confronted and used a taser on Gandy, who then walked to the back door (right) and was shot and killed by a deputy on Sunday night, June 29, 2008.

(Photo by Bob Martin: The Free Lance-Star)

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Date published: 6/30/2008