Police officials announced on Wednesday that four teenagers were charged in a mass shooting that left three people dead and three others injured in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, on Tuesday.
In a Wednesday press release, the Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office said, “Early this morning, 4 subjects were charged with malicious wounding and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony unlawful assembly.”
The Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office identified one of the suspects as 18-year-old Jeremiah Upson and noted that the others included two 16-year-old suspects and one 17-year-old suspect.
In Wednesday’s press release, law enforcement officials confirmed that one of the 16-year-old suspects was hospitalized with a gunshot wound and that the 16-year-old would be arrested following his discharge from the hospital. Police officials added that the other three suspects had been “incarcerated with no bond.”
The Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office identified the three victims killed in Tuesday’s shooting incident as 18-year-old Chase Feaster, 18-year-old Alonzo Goffney, and a 20-year-old whose name was withheld pending final confirmation from the medical examiner’s office.
According to the Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office, an initial investigation into Tuesday’s incident revealed that it was an “illegal gun sale/robbery.”
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Prior to Wednesday’s press release, the Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office said that the office was alerted to a “shooting in the area of Olde Greenwich Circle” in Spotsylvania at roughly 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. After being dispatched to the scene of the crime, sheriff’s deputies discovered that multiple individuals had been shot. The Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office also confirmed that three victims had been transported to local hospitals for medical treatment.
A resident of Spotsylvania County told Fox 5 that they witnessed Tuesday’s shooting incident.
“I was coming down the hill I was looking forward and then I saw about three or four individuals, and I heard it and I saw bullets going everywhere, they were kind of going at each other,” the witness said. “Then I saw some run off down the road and after a little bit they started walking back holding their big guns, and they started walking up the hill, then the cut off behind the townhouses and that’s when the first officer arrived on scene.”
A video shared on X, formerly Twitter, shows two of the suspects walking around with guns before fleeing the scene in the aftermath of Tuesday’s shooting.
