Police responded to a shooting on Fenner Street in Norfolk, Virginia, where three men were found dead at the scene and two were taken to the hospital.
As per the police dispatch, the call came after 4:30 PM on Thursday, from the 7400 block of Fenner Street. The two sent to receive medical treatment have non-life threatening injuries.
An investigation is underway. No suspect details have been released and none of the victims has been identified yet.
Norfolk had another shooting the same day, a little way apart, at Wards Corner, which claimed the life of one man and sent another to the hospital.
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Authorities don’t believe the incidents to be connected. In the wake of the shootings, the police chief sought to reassure citizens that the long arm of the law remained determined to catch the suspects responsible for the shootings.
“With two separate incidents occurring so close together in such a short amount of time, it is understandable for there to be heightened concern among our residents; however, I want to reassure both of these communities that the Norfolk Police Department is working hard tonight to catch those responsible for both of these acts”, the interim chief said.
However, residents were shaken up by the violence and a woman, who only gave her first name as Katherine, told The Virginian Pilot “But it feels like this is happening every day. At this point, where do I go? Where can I safely shop? I have to wonder if I am going to be the victim of a stray bullet”, adding, “The community is so tired of it.”
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She was at the Wards Corner shooting where vehicles appeared to have been shot up, leaving bullet casings on the road.
An individual called Naomi, present at the Fenner Street shooting, told the daily, “It used to not be like this. But now, it seems like it is all the time. I don’t even like to go outside anymore.”
