Virginia governor asks for probe into hiring of 'catfishing' cop who killed 3 in California [Breaking]
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has asked the state’s inspector general to investigate the Virginia State Police’s hiring of Austin Lee Edwards, the now-deceased cop who killed three family members of a 15-year-old Riverside girl he “catfished” online.
The state inspector general’s office does not have the authority to probe local policing agencies, according to Kate Hourin, the office’s spokeswoman. Hourin declined to comment further.Edwards was a trooper with the Virginia State Police for nine months before he resigned on Oct. 28. He worked as a deputy at the Washington County Sheriff’s Office before fatally shooting himself with his service weapon in a Southern California desert last month.
Edwards was detained under an emergency custody order and transported to a local hospital under police escort. A judge approved a temporary detention order for Edwards and he was transferred to a psychiatric facility later that same day.show that Edwards told the Virginia State Police that he had voluntarily checked himself into a mental health facility in 2016.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office, which employed Edwards immediately before his death, had previously said “no employers disclosed any troubles, reprimands, or internal investigations pertaining to Edwards.”first reported Wednesday that Youngkin had requested a probe and said that the governor believes the hiring involved human error. “Once the investigation is completed, there will be full transparency,” Youngkin told reporters Wednesday.
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