killed in confrontation was 34- year-old lionel lorenzo young who according to court records was due in court today after his girl friend swore out a protective order against him. >> her life was being threatened by her boyfriend aknife. >> reporter: the girl friend called 911 before 10:00 last night saying young

. >> reporter: killed in the confrontation was 34-year-old lionel lorenzo young see on shots from his facebook page who was due in court today after his girl friend swore out a protective order against him. prince george's county sheriff's department inspector general mark spencer said the girl friend called 911 before 10:00 last night saying young was threatening her. dispatchers told her to get in her car and get away. that start a pursue that ended here the rice elementary school after crossing the d.c. line and coming back. today young's physical and friends gathered at -- family and friends gathered at the school bewildered. >> never know to ever put his hands on a female, so it was shocking. >> reporter: spencer says last night's shooting by two deputies will be independently investigated by the prince george's county police, a completely separate agency from the sheriff's department. in landover scott broom, wusa9. >> the inspector general said prince george's county sheriff's vehicles do not normally record activities on dashcam. >>> it appears some sort of gas powered equipme

killed in confrontation was 34- year-old lionel lorenzo young who according to court records was due in court today after his girl friend swore out a protective order against him. >> her life was being threatened by her boyfriend aknife. >> reporter: the girl friend called 911 before 10:00 last night saying young was threatening her. dispatchers told her to get in her car and get away. >> she was given further instructions to continue driving until law enforcement arrived. our sheriff's deputies arrived. >> reporter: that started a pursuit that ended at the rice elementary school after crossing the d.c. line and coming back. spencer said young was trapped by two deputies and used his vehicle as a weapon. >> he used his vehicle a number. times repeatedly to ram the deputies' vehicles and, of course, they responded because they were in fear of their live. >> reporter: that's when the deputies shot him to death. today young's physical and friends gathered at the school bewildered. >> very hard worker, great dad to his children and never known to put his hands on a female, so it was just

. >> last night 34-year-old lionel lorenzo young was killed. the sheriff's office said the deputies were chasing young after he threatened his girl friend and cornered him in the parking lot of rice elementary in landover where he allegedly used his pickup truck as a weapon. snow used his vehicle aim number of times -- >> he used his vehicle a number of times. >> prince george's county police will conducts an independent investigation of the shooting. >>> only on 9 tonight the family of d.c. firefighter kevin mcrae is speaking out and talking about the severity of their loss. mcrae died in the line of duty last week while fighting a fire at a building in d.c.'s shaw neighborhood. he collapsed to the ground in cardiac arrest. today his wife and two sons spoke to our bruce johnson at the family home in waldorf. >> every time we go anywhere we were like velcro. we wouldn't do anything without each other. >> he always made sure i knew to stand on my own two feet and not depend on nobody else. >> i'm going to try and join the cadet program and be li