-Strasburg, VA. -December 17, 2023. Support us using **Super Thanks** next to the **share** button. Donate to us through Patreon! https://patreon.com/PoliceBodycamVideos? The town police officer who shot a woman during a Dec. 17 confrontation fended off her attacks before firing four bullets into her chest, body camera footage footage shows. The woman, Melissa R. Tompkins, 40, later died from her injuries at Winchester Medical Center. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled her death a homicide caused by multiple gunshot wounds. Tompkins left behind five children, and family members said she had battled drug and alcohol addiction. The officer who shot Tompkins, George Rathore, whose name had not been released prior, was placed on administrative leave after the incident while state police and a special prosecutor conducted a criminal investigation. Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan Porter, assigned as the special prosecutor for the case, recently concluded his investigation. “We found that the officer involved reasonably feared serious bodily injury or death and was justified in using deadly force,” Porter’s email states. “Therefore, the officer will not be charged with a criminal offense.” Rathore, who joined the town Police Department on June 20, 2022, returned to full duty in May after the agency concluded its internal investigation, Sager said. The shooting occurred outside of the Ramada Inn on Signal Knob Road in Strasburg the night of Dec. 17. Rathore responded to a disturbance at the hotel and encountered Tompkins in the parking lot. Tompkins ran from the officer, who told her to stop. Rathore chased Tompkins back to the hotel parking lot, according to the video. The officer fired two cartridges from his Taser, neither of which subdued Tompkins. She can be seen grabbing and pulling one of the Taser wires and walking toward him. Tompkins gets closer and grabs Rathore’s police radio receiver, pulls the cord about 10 feet, then moves in and wraps the cord around his neck. “I’m wrapping his neck,” she’s heard saying in the video. Police had not previously released that detail. Rathore fell to the ground, reached for his baton and swung at Tompkins’ leg. Tompkins then grabs his baton from his hand and strikes the officer in the head, the video shows. The two separate and Rathore draws his firearm. The officer shouts at Tompkins, “Stop! I don’t want to shoot you.” Tompkins can be heard replying: “Then don’t.” Tompkins steps forward and Rathore fires four shots rapidly at Tompkins, striking her in the chest. Tompkins falls to the ground, first moving slowly then lying still on the parking lot asphalt. Rathore can then be heard shouting “Why did you do that? Why did you do that,” then shouting “shots fired” three times and “help.” Officer David Rhodes had arrived and performed CPR on Tompkins for 6 1/2 minutes while waiting for emergency responders. Officer Bianca Hager also came to the scene and can be heard assisting Rathore. Video surveillance camera footage taken inside the hotel before Rathore arrives shows Tompkins ransacking offices and the front desk in the lobby, at times hiding under desks. At one point, Tompkins saw herself in a security monitor, which she then pulled out from the wall. Tompkins is seen more than once in the hotel security camera footage walking in a hallway, at one point carrying a fire extinguisher. Later, she exits out of a hallway window and is seen in the bodycam footage in the parking lot.