Bystander shot during police gunfight with robbery suspect

SPRINGFIELD, Va. (AP) – Police say they’re looking for an armed robber who exchanged gunfire with an officer, leaving a bystander injured, in the Washington suburb of Springfield, Virginia.
    
Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Roessler told reporters the bystander was hit Saturday by a bullet apparently fired by the robbery suspect. Police didn’t provide the victim’s name or condition.
    
He says police were called shortly after noon to a jewelry store at the Brookfield Plaza shopping center. Roessler says an officer saw a man exit the store and confronted him.
    
He says the suspect fired repeatedly at the officer, who fired back. Roessler says a bystander in a car was hit.
    
He says the robber fled in a car that crashed, carjacked another vehicle, crashed that one, and then ran away.

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5/21/2016 4:32:18 PM (GMT -4:00)