Angelo Delano Perry
India Kager
Posted on 09/09/2015 5:30:31 AM PDT by csvset
VIRGINIA BEACH
The vehicle pulled into a spot at a 7-Eleven parking lot, away from the business and its patrons.
Officers from a special operations unit had been following it for a half-hour before they pulled in behind it, police Chief Jim Cervera said Tuesday.
Four officers approached. The passenger fired four rounds, Cervera said. One pierced an officer's sleeve, but he was not struck.
Police returned fire - 30 rounds total, the chief said.
The passenger, Angelo Delano Perry, 35, of Virginia Beach, and the driver, India Kager, 28, of College Park, Md., were killed. Their infant son was in the vehicle but not harmed. Cervera said officers did not know the baby was there.
The exchange lasted less than 15 seconds Saturday night.
Cervera said the four officers were placed on administrative duty after the shooting at the intersection of Lynnhaven Parkway and Salem Road in the Princess Anne area.
"The officers did everything in their power to mitigate a violent confrontation," Cervera said. But it became one, and "we regret the loss of both Mr. Perry and Ms. Kager."
Police said Tuesday they recovered a 9 mm handgun that was used to fire at officers and a Tec-9 semi-automatic weapon that was in a bag at Perry's feet. Both were loaded.
Cervera said authorities had received information before the shooting that indicated Perry might be planning to commit a violent crime in Virginia Beach.
He was a "person of interest" in a homicide investigation, but Cervera said he couldn't release details.
Perry spent almost 13 years in prison after he was convicted of several crimes, including malicious wounding, use of a firearm in a felony and assault and battery on a law enforcement officer, according to Department of Corrections spokeswoman Lisa Kinney. He was released on mandatory parole in May 2014 and was on community supervision at the time of the shootout, records show.
Police would not identify the officers involved but said an internal investigation is taking place.
"Officers involved in deadly force situations take that with them for life.... They don't carry that lightly," Cervera said.
The commonwealth's attorney said in a statement Tuesday that the office is independently investigating whether the officers' use of deadly force was justified.
The office has three retired enforcement officers from outside Virginia Beach who are available to do such reviews, said Macie Pridgen, a spokeswoman for the commonwealth's attorney. One of them will conduct an investigation separate from the Beach police's with access to the same documents and interview subjects, she said.
Kager was stationed at Oceana Naval Air Station and served for four years before leaving the service in May 2013, according to the Navy. She was awarded a good conduct medal during her time.
Kager's mother, Gina Best, who lives in Maryland, told The Associated Press that Kager had been in Virginia Beach a couple of hours before the shooting. Best said that the infant is Kager's 4-month-old son, Roman, and that Kager's grandmother went to Virginia Beach to get him. Kager also had a 4-year-old son.
Best told the AP that her daughter recently got a job as a postal carrier near Washington. She said Kager's father and grandfather are retired police officers.
"I have to refer to my baby in the past tense," Best said. "That absolutely sends my psyche into a realm of darkness that I never wanted to experience."
Pilot writers Matt McKinney and Mike Hixenbaugh contributed to this report.
Katherine Hafner, 757-446-2705, katherine.hafner@pilotonline.com.
So why was Miss Innocent hanging with an ex-con with two weapons?
In the inset “Rest in Paradise”......seems odd to me. don’t often hear it like that to my recollection.
Poor little baby!
May God bless and keep it.
I hope a loving home is in it’s future!
Looks like Kager wasn’t to selective or wise in her choice of frems aka friends and it cost her big time.
The reporter forgot to add: ‘The world just became a better place’.
Thanks for taking out the trash, VA Beach PD.
I hope a loving home is in it’s future!
I wouldn’t make bet on that one but its a nice thought
Yup, what a horrible thought. That the blameless little baby will suffer for this tragedy.
let’s all say a little prayer for the tiny innocent one in this mess.
I do hope for a better life for the child. The parents failed.
In four years, don't you get more than one good conduct medal? Maybe that's normal.
She picked a real winner here.
I am stumped as to why women mate with the gangster thugs. What could possibly go wrong?
I don’t understand that either.
Are women really attracted to thugs?!
Once every four years.
couldn't decide between "piece" & "peace"...
But there is never any need for a civilian to have more than 6 rounds in a magazine, I have heard.
They need a new gun law...
perhaps that FELONS should
not possess a firearm.
I am sure the FELON would have complied.
Women make poor choices about men all the time.
Too bad her choice led to her death.
I was going to say that not every guy gives a girlfriend his true history. But if they’ve been together long enough to have a child she certainly had time to find out.
The other question (Devil’s advocate) is, did the perp know that they were cops following him? Was the vehicle marked, were the officers in uniform? Did they identify themselves? He might have believed that someone was stalking him for whatever reason and acted in (preemptive) self-defense.
When push comes to shove, I usually trust the cops before the criminals, but those are valid questions.
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