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Norfolk — Three women are dead and two injured after a Wednesday night shooting in the Young Terrace neighborhood of Norfolk.
Police were called to the community — located at the corner of Brambleton Avenue and Saint Paul’s Boulevard — at about 6 p.m.
Three women were pronounced dead at the scene and two others were taken to a hospital for treatment.
A 71-year-old resident who’s lived in the neighborhood for decades said he heard two or three shots. When he went outside, he saw kids and other people running toward the source of gunfire. Then he heard more shots.
Norfolk Police Chief Larry Boone told TV reporters the suspect shot one person before shooting others who tried to help the victim.
“As the community was trying to render aid, this coward shoots them,” Boone said.
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Police later tweeted that a suspect was in custody, but hadn’t released his name as of late Wednesday night.
Dozens of residents from the community gathered outside their homes as police taped off the area and combed it for evidence. Partitions were set up around the bodies to try to shield them from onlookers. A man walked up and down a nearby street, preaching as he strode along the dark roadway.
Among the people gathered at the scene were Bilal Muhammad, Clayton Marquez and Derrick Malie Hansford. The three were at a Stop the Violence meeting at the Kroc Center in Norfolk when they heard about the shooting. Muhammad said they immediately stopped the meeting and drove to the scene.
“We were trying to do something so positive and so constructive, and then we hear about something like this,” he said.
The group plans to hold a community forum from 2 to 5 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Kroc Center Gym to discuss gun violence in the city.
Young Terrace is one of three public housing communities in the Saint Paul’s area the city plans to demolish and replace with mixed-income housing within the next several years.