Report: Alexandria officers acted in self-defense in shooting former Marine "Under these circumstances, the law clearly supports the conclusion that the officers were entitled to use deadly force in response and that they fired in self-defense," the report says. Criminal charges against the officers are not appropriate. The report does not clear the officers of any administrative wrongdoing or judge their tactical decisions during the encounter. Lt. Mark Bergin, an Alexandria police spokesman, said internal affairs detectives will now begin an administrative review of the incident, looking at the decisions the officers made and whether they were in accordance with department policy. "When we get home, we think, what did we do right, what could we have done better, which is not to say there is anything showing in this case that the officers could have done better," Bergin said. It's too early for us to make a judgment about their tactics. That's why we have an internal investigations unit. The officers, Bergin said, will remain on administrative duties until the internal investigation is complete. Friends remembered Sellers, a former Marine and graduate of T.C. Williams High School, as a sensitive person who wrote poetry. Sengel's report specifically notes that Sellers had "served honorably" in the Marines and calls his death an "immeasurable loss for his family and his many friends." According the the report, Sellers had been visiting his grandmother in the 3400 block of Duke Street when he got into an argument with his sister on Feb. 18. She called police, saying her brother had a gun, though he had not threatened to use it, according to the report. The report says that officers encountered Sellers in an open-air stairwell and tried to engage him in conversation. He acknowledged to one officer he had a gun, and he and other officers saw him reach behind his back to grab it, according to the report. Even after that, according to the report, an officer tried to engage Sellers in conversation and asked him to show his hands. Sellers, according to the report, did not respond, and eventually pointed a loaded, Glock semiautomatic pistol at the officers, according to the report. Seven officers fired 37 shots at Sellers, using handguns, a shotgun and a rifle, according to the report. The report says the shots were fired in maybe 10 seconds, and officers fired one or two rounds after a cease-fire was called. Bullets ricocheted around the railings and walls of the apartment, it says. "The total number of rounds fired (thirty-seven) by all the officers in this incident cannot in and of itself be used as a meaningful measure of whether or not the police response was excessive," the report says. All of these shots were fired within a very short span of time. The report summarizes the account of each of the seven officers, saying they were corroborated by cellphone videos and independent witnesses who captured or saw various pieces of the encounter. One witness told investigators that officers tried to negotiate with Sellers for "quite a long time," according to the report. The report also details forensic evidence and the medical examiner's findings about Sellers's wounds. The report does not say why, precisely, Sellers pointed a gun at officers or what caused him to be so upset. It notes, however, that he sent an e-mail to friends and family earlier on the day of the shooting that "strongly implied that he was going to commit suicide." The officers are identified in the report as O. Dunn, J. Panesar, J. Hancq, C. Stowe, H. Richmann, T. Ashman and S. Riley. Their first names are not given, and the department declined to provide them.