Two police officers were shot and killed by a driver in Virginia Beach, Virginia, during a traffic stop Friday night, authorities said Saturday. The driver was later found dead.

The officers, Cameron Girvin, 25, and Christopher Reese, 30, were assigned to a late-night shift when they stopped a car with expired plates at 11:27 p.m.

The driver was immediately “argumentative” before exiting the vehicle in a residential area and getting into a “tussle” with the officers, Virginia Beach police said at a news conference Saturday afternoon.

The driver, John McCoy III, 42, then shot both officers, and as they were on the ground wounded, he stood over them and shot them each a second time, Chief Paul Neudigate of the Virginia Beach Police Department said. Both officers later died at a hospital.

McCoy was later found in a shed near the shooting with a gunshot wound that officers believe to be self-inflicted. He was pronounced dead.

— The New York Times