A 38-year-old Alexandria man was indicted by a grand jury today (Sept. 30) on murder charges for the July 15 fatal shooting of Charles Talley in the city’s West End.
The 36-year-old Talley was shot and killed on the evening of Wednesday, July 15, in the parking lot of the ParcView Apartments in the 5300 block of Holmes Run Parkway. Corey Delantau Stubblefield has been held without bond since his arrest in North Carolina on Aug. 27, and was charged with murder and use of a firearm in commission of murder.
Alexandria Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan Porter said Alexandria Police Department officers found Talley in the parking lot suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. He later died from his injuries at Inova Alexandria Hospital.
In a release, Porter said APD conducted an “exhaustive search” for a suspect and did not mention any motive behind the shooting, although Alexandria Police Chief Tarrick McGuire previously told ALXnow that the incident “had a drug nexus associated with it.”
Stubblefield was arrested while walking from a residence to U.S. Highway 421 in Sampson County, N.C. He is still being held in the Sampson County Detention Center awaiting extradition to Alexandria.
Stubblefield faces up to life in prison for the murder charge and up to three years in prison for the use of a firearm in commission of murder charge.
The incident was the third confirmed homicide in Alexandria this year, according to APD crime data.
