15-year-old boy dead, 3 injured in Prince William County shooting
TRIANGLE, Va. - A 15-year-old boy was killed, and three other people were injured in a shooting in a northern Virginia neighborhood on Monday night.
The shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. in the 3700 block of Masthead Trail in the Triangle area of Prince William County.
Police say a group had gathered in a grassy area in the residential neighborhood when shots rang out.
Officers from Prince William County and the Town of Dumfries arrived and found the 15-year-old and a man suffering from gunshot wounds. They were both transported to the hospital where the 15-year-old later died. The man is expected to survive.
The mother of 15-year-old Simon Lumpkin Jr. spoke to FOX 5 Tuesday, pleading with the public for help finding her son's killer.
Isha Burke says her son was a star basketball and football player at Freedom High School in Woodbridge and was excited about starting 10th grade next year. She says she’s received limited information from investigators and has yet to see her son’s body despite reportedly waiting hours at the hospital.
"I heard my son was fighting with two other little boys, well him and his two friends were fighting, and someone pulled out a gun and shot them three. And I guess my son got the ‘magic number’ because he's the only one that didn't survive," Burke told FOX 5.
A second juvenile was located near the scene of the shooting suffering from a graze wound and was hospitalized. A fourth victim, another adult male, was driven to a nearby hospital and was suffering from gunshot wounds when he arrived.
The additional victims were identified as a 16-year-old male, an 18-year-old man, and a 20-year-old man are all from Triangle. They are all expected to survive.
Police say the incident does not appear to be random. The investigation is continuing at this time.