Three teenagers have charged in the fatal shooting of Alexandria resident Kwakia Frazier and wounding two others, the Alexandria Police Department announced today.
A 16-year-old and two 17-year-old suspects have each been charged with murder by mob and two counts of malicious wounding by mob.
“What’s most concerning about this incident, today I have to stand before our community and say that we are charging three juveniles with murder,” Police Chief Tarrick McGuire said. “It’s not a proud moment.”
The suspects had malicious intent on the evening of Sept. 19, when they allegedly opened fire with multiple stolen handguns in a courtyard in the 1200 block of Wythe Street, Assistant Police Chief Raul Pedroso told reporters.
“This crime was planned,” Pedroso said. “It was deliberate. It was violent. Recovered at the scene were several casings, multiple firearms that had been stolen as a result of the investigation, which included canvases, the use of technology, crime analysis and the execution of multiple search warrants.”
Frazier later died at the hospital, and a 46-year-old man was injured and a 15-year-old boy grazed by a bullet.
The suspects were already in custody for other incidents when the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives linked shell casings from the Sept. 19 to handguns they allegedly used to perform other crimes.
“The ATF, they assisted us in connecting the dots, providing a lead that we were able to use to bring all this evidence together,” Pedroso said.
After the shooting, Frazier’s mother told ALXnow that she was concerned police mistreated her injured son. In a GoFundMe for Frazier, his mother wrote that he was her second son to die by gun violence within a year, and that her third son had also been shot.
