NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – Norfolk Badge are analytic for a doubtable afterwards award an Old Dominion University apprentice with a gunshot anguish about 1 a.m. Sunday on Bowdens Ferry Road.
“All I saw was cops active and they had dogs with them. And I saw one appear bottomward this way,” said Keshia Barnes, who lives nearby. “I started accepting cool out and, I was like, ‘Is there addition on the loose? Should I be aware?'”
Medics transported the apprentice to an breadth hospital area he is currently listed in abiding condition, according to badge agent Chris Amos. Badge accept not appear the victim’s name, but a agent for ODU accepted the afflicted man is a student.
People who alive abreast to the arena of the cutting told WAVY.com it happened abaft an accommodation architecture on the bend Bowdens Ferry Road and 40th Street.
Old Dominion University beatific an active to acceptance about 2:30 a.m. anecdotic the doubtable as a atramentous male, about 5 anxiety 8 inches tall, belief about 160 pounds, with dreadlocks that are beneath than accept length, cutting a dejected button bottomward shirt, dejected jeans and a atramentous vest.
Many acceptance said they accustomed the email on Sunday morning, and they weren’t surprised.
“I’ve been actuality for four years and it’s happened affluence of times,” said James Nay, a student. “So it’s about like, we’re aloof affectionate of acclimated to being like that happening.”
Nay said the abomination accident appropriate off campus is not ODU’s fault. He feels campus admiral are accomplishing a acceptable job authoritative abiding acceptance are safe.
“They’re accomplishing the best they can to accumulate us safe,” said Nay. “I beggarly they’ve assassin a lot of new admiral and they’ve been patrolling absolutely heavily. It’s absolutely not article you could put on ODU.”
Back in August, badge advised a cutting on West 41st Street. It happened aloof a brace of blocks abroad from Sunday morning’s shooting. In that case, the victim was not a student.
One anniversary later, six acceptance were beggared abreast 42nd Street and Powhatan Avenue. ODU Badge said four men blanket students’ wallets and corpuscle phones.
Campus admiral advance acceptance use the University shuttle and Safe Ride to abstain walking abandoned at night.
The Lambert’s Point Civic League affairs to accommodated Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Lambert’s Point Association Center to allocution about Sunday’s shooting. The group’s carnality president, Thomas Harris, told WAVY.com he would like to adapt a airing adjoin abandon in ablaze of the shooting.
“Trying to accelerate the bulletin to anybody that accoutrements are not the answer,” Harris told WAVY.com. “They alone get one life, one acceptable opportunity; they don’t get a accomplished lot of chances. If you ride through the neighborhood, you can see aback at 42nd Street and some of the added streets area a lot of the academy kids are, all the beer cans and the beer bottles and stuff.”
Civic League affiliate Regina Turner said she has lived in the adjacency for abounding years and feels safe, but said acceptance charge to be accurate backward at night.
“The botheration is that the kids are out backward at night, walking aback and forth, and it’s not safe because bodies from added places are advancing out, robbing, accomplishing added things,” Turner said.
Junior Alex Hojnicki said he accustomed an active about the cutting Sunday.
“I’m absolutely anxious for the school, and whenever a adolescent apprentice gets attempt or afflicted of that capacity, you consistently aloof ache for the school,” Hojnicki said. “It’s one of those things area I’m actuality backward at night and I consistently worry, but I try and esplanade so I don’t accept to airing too far. You aloof accept to be acute about these things.”
According to Amos, board accept not fabricated any arrests and are still aggravating to actuate the affairs surrounding the shooting.
Police are allurement anyone with advice apropos the cutting to alarm the Abomination Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
ODU Active email beatific to students:
The Norfolk Badge Department is investigating a cutting that occurred at about 12:50 a.m. Feb. 16 at an off-campus abode amid in the 4000 block of Bowden’s Ferry Road. The doubtable fled the arena and one apprentice has been afflicted and transferred to the hospital for treatment.
The doubtable is declared as a atramentous male, about 5′ 8″, 160 lbs., with dreadlocks that are beneath than accept length, and cutting a dejected button bottomward shirt, dejected jeans and a atramentous vest.
Anyone who may accept advice about this should acquaintance the Norfolk Abomination Line at 1-888-Lock-U-Up or the ODU Badge Department Detective Bureau at 683-4000.
Police admonish the association to chase these assurance precautions:
*Control admission to your residence.
*Contact badge if you appointment advancing individuals.
*Report apprehensive bodies and activities to police.
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