VIRGINIA — A teenager is in police custody after a shooting wounded three in Alexandria Thursday.
Around 12:45 p.m. officers were dispatched to a “shots fired” call and located three injured adults at the scene. The initial investigation has shown that a vehicle traveling on E. Howell Avenue was shot at by the suspect.
The vehicle was occupied by three individuals and it crashed after being fired upon. A 19-year-old woman, 21-year-old man, and a 49-year-old man were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries related to the shooting.
The suspect, age 17, an Alexandria City resident, was charged with Malicious Wounding. The suspect’s name will not be released because the suspect is a juvenile.
