A domestic disturbance call in Virginia Beach on the evening of October 30, 2013, ended with the death of 30-year-old Shane Whitworth. Police were called about 6:15 p.m. after a woman said her husband had locked himself in a bathroom and was making threats to harm himself. The woman and her five-year-old child left the home in the 500 block of Bay Cove Quay before officers arrived.

Officers heard Whitworth inside claiming to have weapons and heard the sound of a gun slide being racked. Whitworth later exited through a back door armed with a handgun, fired one shot, and attempted to hide under a backyard trampoline before using a ladder to climb a fence into a neighbor’s yard. In that yard he was confronted by officers and was shot; he sustained a chest wound and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Virginia Beach Police Department’s investigative division, the Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney, and the Office of Internal Affairs reviewed the shooting and identified the two officers who fired as Officer Steven Brown and Naval Criminal Investigative Service Agent Suzanne Marsteller. The Commonwealth’s Attorney concluded both officers were justified in their use of force and did not bring criminal charges.

Did anyone in the Bay Cove Quay area witness the confrontation or have additional details about the moments before officers arrived?