Two Alexandria teens have been charged after an 18-year-old was stabbed, tased and beaten in a West End parking lot last month, according to the Alexandria Police Department.
The 16 and 17-year-old suspects were charged with malicious wounding by mob and destruction of property after the May 12 (Sunday) incident that left the 18-year-old victim with a knife wound to his leg.
The victim told police that he was stabbed at around 11:30 p.m. in the Van Dorn Plaza parking lot outside of Hangry Joe’s Hot Chicken & Wings (277 S. Van Dorn Street). The victim told police that he went with a AAA co-worker to get food in the restaurant. He said that he saw the three suspects seated inside, and that they followed him as he walked with his food to his car.
The responding officer used gauze and applied pressure to the laceration until medics arrived, according to a recently released search warrant affidavit.
The victim was treated and Inova Alexandria Hospital and later positively identified the suspects to police.
The victim told police that three men “surrounded him and expressed that they wanted to fight him,” according to the search warrant affidavit.
During the struggle, the victim said that he was tased twice in the neck, stabbed in the leg, and shoved and punched. He told police that he was stabbed by a knife with a black handle and a six-inch blade. He also provided police with a video of the alleged suspects driving from the scene.
“(The) victim warned the group that he was calling the police,” APD said in the search warrant affidavit. “The group backed away and got into a silver Volkswagen Jetta and left the scene.”
A nearby APD officer, who was driving a juvenile runaway home, saw the vehicle with the suspects leave the Mason at Van Dorn apartment complex (across the street from the crime scene) turn onto S. Reynolds Street near Duke Street. An investigating officer then searched the license plate reader system for the apartment complex and saw that the suspect vehicle was seen at 11:29 p.m. — just one minute after the call for service.
Police then drive a mile-and-a-half to the registered address for the vehicle at an apartment building in the 5300 block of Knole Court. The vehicle’s owner told police that he was a driver for Uber Eats deliveries and that he was called by the suspect to pick he and his friends up from the Safeway off S. Van Dorn Street.
The driver told police that while he drove, “someone in the group mentioned they stabbed (the victim) but he wasn’t sure who made the statement. After he heard that statement, he told the subjects to get out of his car.”
According to the search warrant affidavit:
(The victim) said he got his food from the restaurant and then walked back into the parking lot to leave in his vehicle. He said there were three… male subjects outside. (The victim) said the group said they wanted to fight him. (The victim) tired to start video recording using his cell phone but it was snatched from him by (a suspect). The victim said he turned around and saw (a suspect) holding his phone. The victim said he tried to get his phone back. At that point, (a suspect) placed a knife to his neck. The victim pulled away and took his phone back…
The victim said when he was grabbing his phone from (the suspect), (the other suspect) stabbed him in the leg with a knife. The victim said he called the police and the suspects fled in a vehicle.
