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)