The police superintendent said investigators had not identified a motive.įlaherty said Dermyer’s colleagues “have taken this very hard because of how well he was liked.
Flaherty said the squad’s training assignment was: “ ‘If you see some suspicious behavior, go over and engage and have a conversation.’ That was what was taking place here.” Two other troopers returned fire, police said. He said he did not know what drew Dermyer’s attention to the man. Dermyer was not wearing a protective vest.įlaherty said the conversation lasted about 30 seconds. It is a way of intercepting drugs and guns.ĭermyer, wearing a dark blue uniform that resembles fatigues, had started to question the man when the assailant pulled out a gun and shot the trooper, police said.
The unit is assigned to public transit areas and highways to identify and question people deemed suspicious. in an area that the city has tried to revitalize, an area known as the Diamond after the nearby minor league baseball stadium.įlaherty said Dermyer and other troopers were at the station to train for what is called a counterterrorism and criminal interdiction unit. He said that the man was not from the Richmond area and that he had an arrest record but was not being sought. One of the victims is a member of the Binghamton University track team who was on her way to a meet, school officials said.įlaherty withheld the name of the shooter pending notification of relatives. Police said the two civilians suffered injuries that did not appear life-threatening. Reva Trammell, a Richmond City Council member, hugged a crying state trooper at the shooting scene and called Thursday “one of the saddest days I’ve ever seen in the city of Richmond. Dermyer rescued a dog in January that had been unning between cars on Interstate 64 and Interstate 664 in Virginia. WVEC 13 anchor LaSalle Blanks honored Chad Dermyer, a Virginia State Police officer who was killed when a gunman opened fire at a Greyhound bus station on Thursday. He was a happy guy who died doing what he loved.” He was very involved with his son and daughter. His wife, Jennifer, remembered her brother-in-law as “giving” man, whose death was “heartbreaking.” She described him as a “loving brother, father, son and uncle. The slain trooper grew up in Michigan, served in the Marine Corps and most recently lived in Gloucester, Va.ĭermyer’s brother John called him “my best friend’ before being overcome by emotion during a brief telephone interview Thursday night. He later announced the death “with an incredibly heavy heart” and noted that Dermyer is survived by his wife, Michelle, and two children. Dermyer, 37, who graduated from the academy in 2014 after serving as an officer in Jackson, Mich., and in Newport News, Va.įlaherty learned of the shooting while attending an event honoring police officers killed in the line of duty and as candles were being lighted for those lost.
Steven Flaherty, identified the slain trooper as Chad P.
Two troopers shot and killed the gunman, police said. RICHMOND - A Virginia State Police trooper on a training exercise for a criminal interdiction squad was killed and two civilians were wounded when a man the officer had just begun to question opened fire Thursday afternoon inside a Greyhound Bus Station near downtown Richmond, authorities said.
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