CHESAPEAKE
Recent Oscar Smith High School graduate Lonnie Andrews Jr. died from a gunshot wound to the pelvis, the state medical examiner said Thursday.
Andrews, who was headed to Virginia State University on a football scholarship next month, was found near his South Norfolk home around
2:30 a.m. Tuesday and was later pronounced dead at Chesapeake General Hospital.
A 17-year-old classmate arrested later that day could be prosecuted as an adult on charges of first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Chesapeake Commonwealth's
Attorney Nancy Parr said she will ask that the teenager be certified as an adult after a preliminary hearing in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.
The suspect, whose name is being withheld by The Virginian-Pilot because of his age, has been given a week to hire a lawyer.
State law automatically allows children over the age of 14 who are charged with murder to be prosecuted as adults. The case would be transferred to Chesapeake Circuit Court, if a juvenile judge finds probable cause.
Police still were not releasing any new details about the case Thursday, including whether it was related to the shooting death of 26-year-old Dontrell Whitehurst less than 12 hours later in the 3000 block of Parkside Drive.
No arrest has been made in that case, and police spokesman Gus Mojica stressed that the two homicides were not in the same neighborhoods.
But police could not yet rule out a connection, he said.
Friends and family of Andrews are planning a candlelight vigil at 7 p.m. Saturday near 1520 Clark Court, where a makeshift memorial of teddy bears, balloons, handwritten messages and flowers, has gone up.
Andrews' funeral is set for 11 a.m. Tuesday at Deep Creek Baptist Church on Mill Creek Parkway in Chesapeake, said his older brother, Antoine Spencer.
Kristin Davis, (757) 222-5208, kristin.davis@pilotonline.com
John Hopkins, (757) 222-5221, john.hopkins@pilotonline.com
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