Police arrest teenage gunman after three people shot in Alexandria
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Version 0 of 1. A 17-year-old Alexandria teenager was arrested for allegedly wounding three people Thursday during a shooting incident in the Del Ray section of Alexandria, alarming neighbors who heard multiple gunshots around lunchtime. Alexandria police said the victims were expected to survive and that they knew the person who shot them. They were taken to a hospital, where they were in serious but stable condition, Alexandria Police Department Capt. Shannon Soriano said. Detectives arrested the suspect, who was not identified because he is a juvenile, hours after police used a helicopter and police dogs to help with the search. Officials said he was arrested without incident and charged with malicious wounding. The incident unfolded about 1 p.m. in the 400 block of East Howell Avenue. Police provided few details, but neighbors described seeing an injured man and woman, and a black car that had rammed into an SUV. Edna Gregg, 73, lives on East Howell Avenue and heard the shots while she was in her basement. She came outside and saw two people on the sidewalk who were upset. The man appeared to have been shot in the arm, but Gregg could not tell how the woman had been hurt. “She was screaming,” she said, and the man was “trying to calm her down.” Gregg was told by police that both were taken to the hospital, along with a third victim. Some neighbors were especially jolted because the shooting occurred blocks from where House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and others were shot last month as Republican members of Congress held a baseball practice. The shooter was killed by police. [Lawmaker Steve Scalise is critically injured in GOP baseball shooting; gunman James T. Hodgkinson is killed by police] Kyle Morrisey, 41, was parking his car on Leslie Avenue on Thursday when he “heard a commotion” and saw two victims sitting on the curb at the Howell Avenue intersection. The young man had his shirt off and was holding it to the right cheek of a young woman. There was blood on his chest. Neighbors were trying to calm them down. “Del Ray’s a safe neighborhood. . . . I don’t feel unsafe,” Morrisey said. “But I don’t feel like explaining to my 5-year-old and 3-year-old why there’s police tape up again, that there’s another bad guy out there.” Clarence Williams contributed to this report. |