Bijan Ghaisar was 25 when he was shot by two U.S. Park Police officers after a short pursuit on the evening of November 17, 2017, on the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Fairfax, Virginia. The encounter began after his Jeep Grand Cherokee was rear-ended and he drove away. Officers Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard pursued him for several minutes; Ghaisar stopped three times and each time officers approached with guns drawn. As his Jeep slowly moved to drive around a police cruiser blocking him, the officers fired ten shots into the vehicle. Ghaisar, who was unarmed, was struck multiple times, including four times in the head, was hospitalized in a coma and died on November 27, 2017.

The shooting was investigated by the FBI; in November 2019 the Department of Justice said it would not bring federal civil rights charges. In October 2020 a Fairfax County special grand jury indicted Amaya and Vinyard on state manslaughter and reckless discharge counts, but their legal team removed the case to federal court. A federal judge dismissed the state charges in October 2021, and that decision was left in place the following April when the Virginia Attorney General declined to pursue an appeal. The family later pursued civil litigation that resulted in a settlement. Does anyone have direct information about the weeks after the shooting or about witnesses at the final scene?