An off-duty Pentagon police officer had confronted the men as they were breaking into cars on a dark, predawn morning in the parking lot in Takoma Park, Md., police said. The recollections also line up with what Thomas told detectives, according to Brian Shefferman, an attorney who represented Thomas during his interview by authorities. “He was candid about everything.”That included explaining why he and his friends were in the parking lot at 5 a.m. on April 7. As the car approached them in the parking lot, Thomas recalled, his friends scrambled to get back inside. During the parking lot encounter, Dixon had told investigators, he was nearly run over by the Lexus as he fired several shots to defend himself.

Source: Washington Post April 16, 2021 16:15 UTC