Police had received an alert that Johnson had stolen two pairs of sunglasses from Nordstrom. The officers chased Johnson into a wooded area and Shifflett opened fire, hitting him in the chest.
Shifflett and his team at the police department received a report from security guards that Johnson had stolen sunglasses from a Nordstrom department store. After identifying Johnson, Shifflett ...
Glenn Youngkin, Republican governor of Virginia, commuted the sentence of a former police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man accused of stealing a pair of sunglasses in 2023.