Off-duty officer in Virginia shoots man dead in carwash

An off-duty officer in the US State of Virginia has fatally shot a man during a confrontation at a carwash.

Police in the Chesterfield County say the Richmond officer killed the man while waiting for employees to clean his car. They say the victim was shot when he slipped into the cop’s car on Saturday and drove it through the carwash stall.

Local media reports say a witness saw the officer pull out a weapon and repeatedly tell the man to get out, but the man made a sudden move and the officer fired a shot.

A Chesterfield police official has reportedly verified the witness's description.

Police are now investigating the fatal shooting.

In a separate incident, chaos broke out at a street festival in downtown Fort Myers, Florida, after a shooting left one man dead and four other people wounded.

Crowds of people fled screaming through the streets after the shots rang out late on Saturday at the ZombiCon festival.

The identities of the victims were not disclosed, and the circumstances of the shooting remained unclear.

Gun violence in the US has been on the rise over the past years.

The country has experienced more than one mass shooting a day this year and the fatal shootings at the community college in Oregon were the latest of many gun-related deaths.

Protests and riots have occurred across the US against police brutality and racial injustice since last summer.

Nearly 900 people have been killed by police since the beginning of 2015, according to data collected by an activist group known as Killed by Police.

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