Pharrell says his cousin was shot and killed by Virginia police

Pharrell Williams said on Monday that his cousin was killed by police in Virginia Beach, Virginia, last week. The Virginia Beach police said Williams' cousin was brandishing a handgun, and the city's police chief announced Tuesday he asked the Virginia State Police to investigate the shooting.

Williams' cousin, 25-year-old Donovon W. Lynch, was shot and killed by a Virginia Beach police officer in one of three separate incidents late Friday night. In one of the other shootings, 28-year-old Deshayla E. Harris was also killed, and investigators believe she was hit by stray gunfire, Chief Paul Neudigate told reporters Monday. The Grammy-winning artist tweeted that the loss of these lives is a "tragedy beyond measure."