Conflict Resolutions

Yet more circumstances surrounding gun-related violence, and the CASPCA drama continues...

Just a day after I posted a story exploring the different circumstances surrounding incidents of gun violence in Charlottesville over the last six months, a new circumstance was added: the police shooting and killing of a gun-wielding 44-year old man on Tuesday, February 28 near the Red Roof Inn at the 250/29 intersection.

The circumstance surrounding the killing of Billy Sites, a man wanted for outstanding warrants, is under scrutiny as eyewitnesses and family members, some of whom claim there were present when Sites was shot by Albemarle County police, have offered accounts of what happened that conflict with the one offered by Charlottesville Chief Michael Kochis, who served as the official spokesperson in the aftermath of the shooting. Kochis said that after a prolonged attempt at trying to negotiate with Sites, who had a gun and had already fired it at least once, police fired when he pointed his gun at them.