MANASSAS, Va. — (AP) — Responding officers shot and killed a man with a knife suspected of fatally stabbing one person and critically wounding another inside a training center for electrical workers, police said Tuesday.
Prince William County officers were called to the union apprenticeship center in Manassas around 3:30 p.m. for a report of a stabbing and encountered a man near the entrance with a knife, a police statement said.
They then learned that the man had stabbed two people inside the center, Police Chief Peter Newsham said in a news conference.
The stabbing victims were taken to area hospitals, where one man died and another was in critical condition, police said.
The regional critical incident response team will lead the investigation into the shooting, Newsham said.
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