NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Newport News police are investigating a shooting that sent one man to the hospital early Wednesday morning.
The call of gunshots heard came in around 2:51 a.m. at the Deer Park Apartments in the 11400 block of Jefferson Avenue, police said.
Shortly after, officers received a call of a shooting victim at the nearby Wawa on J. Clyde Morris Boulevard. Officers found a 43-year-old man with a gunshot wound.
He was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition, police said.
Based on a preliminary investigation, police said the man was inside his vehicle when gunshots were fired and he was hit.
The man left the scene and went to a nearby Wawa where police were contacted.
There is no suspect information at this time, police said.
People around Deer Park, like Michael Malloy, told 13News Now they're concerned about the shooting happening so close to them.
“My wife said, 'You know, they said Deer Park.' And I said, 'Oh my God, this is too close,'" said Malloy.
He added that it's a family-friendly neighborhood. "Young, old, this is a neighborhood where it’s working people.”
Malloy said it's been a violent week in Newport News and “it has to stop happening around this area, because all I’m seeing is my neighborhood with problems right now. The worst kind of problems. Anybody could’ve been walking out here.”
John Hoss, who works at the business next door to the apartment complex, said, “I’m concerned for the community around here. There’s a lot of folks here who have got kids.”
Hoss added, “Between the dentist [Dr. William Trolenberg] being murdered a couple of months back to this here, it doesn’t make me feel real safe.”
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