'Catfishing' cop shot himself with service weapon after killing California girl's family, officials say

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The Virginia sheriff’s deputy who killed three family members of a Riverside teenager shot himself at the end of a chase with law enforcement.

, posing as someone else to form an exploitative relationship with her online, investigators said.

Hours after he fled the scene, Edwards’ vehicle was spotted nearly 200 miles away in a remote part of San Bernardino County.A SWAT team attempted to stop the vehicle, but Edwards led police on a pursuit during which he reportedly fired at the SWAT vehicle, striking it multiple times.A cellphone video shows deputies from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office taking a trash bag from the Virginia property of Austin Lee Edwards.

Last week, however, sheriff’s officials said Edwards’ cause of death had been determined to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

 

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He did the right thing for once in his miserable life

So happy to call Canada and Australia home!

He may have killed himself, but i have his sssssoul!

What a sick individual.

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