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'A true hero:' Chesapeake sheriff talks about his deputy, friend hurt in shootout

Deputy Scott Chambers
Chesapeake sheriff and deputy Chambers
Officer-involved shooting in Hampton
Officer-involved shooting in Hampton
Officer-involved shooting in Hampton
Officer involved shooting in Hampton
Posted at 5:49 PM, Jan 12, 2023
and last updated 2023-01-12 20:12:05-05

CHESAPEAKE, Va. – Chesapeake Sheriff Jim O’Sullivan said Deputy Scott Chambers had another surgery Thursday and is still in critical condition.

The family of Tivona Fogg, who was murdered on Christmassaid they’re thankful to the deputy who risked his life to get the suspected killer off the street.

The man accused of killing Fogg was her husband, Lamont Lewis, 46. He was shot dead by police Wednesday, but Fogg’s family is left with many questions.

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“It does not give us full or complete closure by any means, because one thing we don’t understand is how that monster was allowed to roam the streets to harm my sister,” said Fogg’s sister Shanda Thomas.

Fogg, 45, was a devoted mother of four and grandmother. She was shot dead on Christmas day inside her Hampton home. Lewis had essentially been on the run since that gruesome discovery.

Weeks later, on Wednesday morning, January 11, the U.S. Marshals Task Force, which is made up of several local agencies, found Lewis driving along Big Bethel Road in Hampton.

Deputy Scott Chambers and several other agents then walked up to the car to arrest him. That’s when investigators said Lewis jumped out with two pistols and started shooting.

“The individual was in the passenger seat and hopped into the driver’s seat, and then hopped out of the car with two firearms blazing right at Scott and the others there,” said O’Sullivan. “It was almost like an ambush. Just came out guns a blazing.”

Lewis was killed during the gunfire exchange.

Deputy chambers, who was standing just feet away, was seriously wounded. He remains in the hospital.

“He’s the toughest guy I’ve ever met in my life, and he is also one of the sweetest people you’d ever meet,” O’Sullivan said. “He has all the fight within him. I know he will overcome it and get through this. To go through what he went through in that situation, he is a hero.”

O’Sullivan is Chambers’ boss but also one of his best friends. It’s a friendship that goes back 30 years from when they were in the police academy together.

Deputy Chambers has been an investigator on the task force for 18 months and in law enforcement for 20 years.

“He’s a man about service and he’s a man about integrity,” said O’Sullivan.

O’Sullivan assigned Chambers to the task force – a dangerous job the sheriff himself also served on.

“We have a tough job and have to make split-second decisions,” O’Sullivan said. “We just run toward danger and help people.”

Tivona Fogg’s family is thankful to that deputy.

“To the marshal that risked his life to try and apprehend him, I just want to tell him 'thank you' from the bottom of my heart,” said Fogg’s brother, Ramando Fogg. “Thank you so much.”

Sheriff O’Sullivan said Chambers is also a medic and knew exactly what to do when he got shot. He said he put on his own tourniquet and without that, O’Sullivan said he probably wouldn’t have made it.