UPDATE: Suspect accused of shooting woman, 2 Chesapeake officers dies after arrest
Portsmouth police confirmed to News 3 a shelter-in-place on Cypress Road Thursday morning was related to the search for a suspect accused of killing a woman in a domestic incident and shooting two responding officers.
Around 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, Portsmouth police asked people to avoid the area between and around the 30 and 50 blocks of Cypress Road, according to a post made on social media. The shelter-in-place was lifted around 9 a.m. after Portsmouth police took the suspect, 39-year-old Shaun Boker, into custody following a brief standoff, Chesapeake police say.
Watch previous coverage: Woman killed, 2 officers shot during domestic incident in Chesapeake
Boker was wanted for questioning after Chesapeake police found a woman with apparent gunshot wounds inside an apartment in the 500 block of Willow Bridge Court, police shared just before 1 a.m. on Thursday. Police had already been at the scene for hours, but two of their own were hurt after arriving: When officers got to the apartment around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, they heard a woman screaming for help inside the apartment, according to Chesapeake police. Then, a suspect—who's since been identified as Boker—began to fire his gun through the closed door, hitting two officers.
The woman was taken to the hospital where she later died, police say. The two officers who were shot were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
News 3 reporter Gabrielle Harmon was outside the Woodbridge Apartments in Chesapeake Thursday morning and talked with a woman who says Boker got away by jumping out of a window at the apartment. However, that hasn't been confirmed by police as of this writing.
After police located and arrested Boker, they shared the multiple charges he's facing: first-degree murder, two counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, two counts of aggravated malicious wounding of a law enforcement officer, as well as other firearm-related charges.
