A Virginia sheriff’s deputy shot his teenage daughter after he mistook her for an intruder as she sneaked into the home in the early morning hours, then crashed his car as he rushed her to the hospital, police said.
The frantic scene began around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, when Loudoun County Sheriff’s Deputy Easton McDonald heard an alarm from his garage indicating the door was open. McDonald, getting ready for work, walked closer to the garage in his Winchester, Va. home and heard more rustling and a loud bang.
“He figured someone had broken into the garage, and his family was upstairs asleep,” Frederick County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Donnie Lang told the Washington Post.
YOUR4STATE.COMCapt. Donnie Lang of the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office said it’s unclear if charges will be filed.The law enforcement officer grabbed a pistol he kept in the kitchen and approached the garage. A “dark shape” came toward him and McDonald fired, shooting the person in the chest.
“Then he hears her voice and recognizes that it’s his daughter,” Lang told the newspaper.
SHERIFF.LOUDOUN.GOVThe veteran sheriff’s deputy also crashed his car as he rushed to the hospital to get his daughter medical attention.He immediately called 911 and jumped in the car with the wounded 16-year-old girl, a student as Millbrook High School.
“[A] male subject stated, ‘My daughter’s been shot and I’m taking her to the hospital.’ There was an open line for a few seconds and then the phone disconnected,”Lang told WHAG-TV.
En route from his Lilys Way home, McDonald crashed his car near Cork St. and East Lane as he raced to Winchester Medical Center. A responding ambulance took the girl the rest of the way there, the station reported.
The teen is in stable condition, while her father, a 13-year veteran, has been placed on administrative leave as his department investigates the shooting.
“We [will] confer with the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office [to] reference all the facts, and once it is completed, determine how they want us to go further,” Lang told WHAG about possible charges.
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