Police: Self-Inflicted Gunshot Killed Suspect Fleeing Arrest

The suspect in an early-morning shootout Thursday died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to the Prince William County Police.

Douglas Clayton Lewis, 56, of Manassas, fled from his 9580 Covington Place home during the execution of a search warrant by U.S. Homeland Security officials, according to PWCPD spokesman Officer Jonathan Perok.

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Local officers, members of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and Homeland Security executed the search warrant and arrest warrant at 6:30 a.m. at Lewis' home on the 9500 block of Covington Place. 

"As federal agents approached the home, they encountered the suspect exiting the residence," Perok said in a statement. "The suspect ignored commands by the agents and fled down an alleyway in between two town homes."

When agents confronted him in the alleyway, Lewis allegedly pointed a handgun at the agents. One agent shot him in the lower body.

"The suspect then ran behind a fence area where he was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head and pronounced dead," Perok said. 

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