Annandale man identified, charged with trying to disarm officer who shot him

Thomas Robertson | trobertson@wtop.com The Fairfax County Police Department in Virginia identified the man shot Tuesday by one of its officers after the man allegedly tried to grab the officer’s gun. Nehemia Fuentes Banegas, 26, of Annandale, Virginia, is charged with attempted disarming of a law enforcement officer and is being held at the Fairfax County jail on no bond. According to police, Fuentes Banegas was armed with two knives and had stabbed himself before running away from the home police had been called to Tuesday morning. Officers went to the home in the 7000 block of Sutter Lane after the man’s wife told police he had threatened her and stabbed himself. Once officers got there, they began searching a wooded area for Fuentes Banegas. “As officers searched the area, Fuentes Banegas suddenly emerged from heavy brush, violently grabbed an officer’s firearm, and attempted to disarm him.

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