The Alexandria Police Department says that the shooting death of a 23-year-old resident Saturday night (Oct. 19) is a homicide, and released the identity of the victim.
Carl Harris was found in a parking lot of an apartment building in the 800 block of Manor Road just before 8 p.m. He was put into an SUV and driven to Inova Alexandria Hospital, but was dead on arrival, according to police dispatches.
The Alexandria Police Department is stepping up patrols and implementing other security measures around the Andrew Adkins development after a pair of recent shootings nearby.
On Thursday, Sept. 19, three people were shot in the Braddock neighborhood near the Andrew Adkins development, including a 15-year-old boy. One victim, Kwakia Frazier, was fatally wounded in the shooting.
The Alexandria Police Department confirmed two men in their car at the intersection of N. Fayette and Wythe Streets were shot in their car just before 2 a.m.
Witnesses told police they heard what sounded like automatic gunfire, according to the police scanner.
Kwakai Frazier’s mom says her son had no enemies and was at the wrong place at the wrong time when he was shot and killed last Thursday night (Sept. 19) in Alexandria’s Braddock neighborhood. She also says that police carried her son from the crime scene to an ambulance, and fears that doing so could have led to his death.
In a vigil that lasted more than an hour, a large, silently respectful crowd laid flowers, candles and balloons in the courtyard where the 25-year-old Frazier was shot. Frazier and two others were shot, and Frazier later succumbed to his injuries.
The Alexandria Police Department (APD) said 25-year-old Alexandria resident Kwakia Frazier, one of the victims in a Braddock neighborhood shooting last night, has died.
The shooting occurred around 8:14 p.m. at 1221 Wythe Street on Thursday night. Police said Frazier and another adult victim, a 46-year-old city resident, were transported to a hospital. A third person, a 15-year-old boy, was grazed by a bullet and received medical treatment on the scene.
Update 9/20 — One of the victims, 25-year-old Alexandria resident Kwakia Frazier, has died. Police also said a third person, a 15-year-old boy, was grazed by a bullet and received medical treatment at the scene.
The Alexandria Police Department (APD) is responding to a shooting in the Braddock neighborhood.
Interim Alexandria Police Chief Raul Pedroso shared a few more details about the fatal shooting by an Alexandria Police Officer this morning, though many other details are being kept under wraps.
Pedroso said officers pleaded with the man to drop his weapon for around 35 minutes, but around 11:21 p.m. last night (Monday), in “response to threatening action” an APD officer shot and killed the man. The man was pronounced dead on the scene.
The Alexandria Police Department said in a release that on Monday, Aug. 12, officers fatally shot a man in a stairwell of an apartment building just off I-395.
According to the release:
The Alexandria Police Department (APD) is investigating a shooting off Duke Street yesterday (Sunday) afternoon near 4600 Duke Street
APD described the incident as “a felonious assault with non-life-threatening injuries.
The Alexandria Police Department released the identities of the dead victim and suspect in Saturday’s shooting at the Onelife Fitness (305 Hooffs Run Drive) in Carlyle. APD said that the suspect and the victim were “known to each other.”
According to dispatch, the shooting occurred inside the Onelife Fitness at around 4:15 p.m. on Saturday.
The Alexandria Police Department is investigating a shooting this afternoon on the 300 block of Hooffs Run Drive that left one man and the alleged male shooter dead.
Police said in a release that both people were transported to local hospitals and there is no threat to the public related to the incident. In an update around 11:45 p.m. police said the male victim and alleged shooter both succumbed to their injuries.
