The Virginia State Police on Monday identified the man they said shot four police officers, two of them fatally, in southwestern Virginia last weekend, but the motive for the shooting remained unclear. The man, Gilbert Newberry, 52, was shot to death by the police on Sunday after refusing to surrender, the authorities said. He had hidden on a wooded hillside and fired a high-powered rifle at officers responding to a call of possible larceny at a scrap yard in rural Buchanan County. The state police identified the dead officers as Cameron Justus, 41, and William Stiltner, 46. The wounded officers, who were both in critical condition on Monday, were Erik Rasnake, 32, and Shane Charles, 25.

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