A Fairfax County police officer fired five shots at a woman who appeared to slash his face with a knife in a Reston apartment building last month, fatally wounding her, according to newly released body-camera footage showing a roughly four-minute interaction that began when the officer was called to conduct a welfare check.

The Fairfax County Police Department (FCPD) on Monday released body camera footage from a deadly shooting involving an officer last month in Reston. That shooting happened in an apartment complex back on Sept.

Police in Virginia released body-worn camera footage Monday from an officer-involved shooting involving a knife-wielding woman in September.The woman, 33-year-o

The Fairfax County Police Department has released footage from an officer’s body camera showing a knife-wielding woman slashing the officer several times before he shot and killed her in the hallway of her Reston apartment building last month.

A welfare check in Reston ended tragically when a police officer shot Sydney Wilson, 33, after she attacked him with a knife.