No weapons found in car of men killed by Portsmouth police

CHESAPEAKE

City police recovered more suspected drugs and bullets, but no weapons, from the car of two men shot and killed by Portsmouth police last week.

The shootings occurred, police said, after the men's hemmed-in sedan rammed police vehicles and pinned an officer against a police car.

Records filed Wednesday with a search warrant in Circuit Court showed that Chesapeake police, who are investigating the April 9 incident in the Holly Cove neighborhood, seized several items including four bullets, a bullet fragment from the seat behind the driver, suspected marijuana, a bag containing a white substance, a digital scale, $27.98 in cash and two cell phones.

Police did not immediately respond Thursday to requests for information about the search.

Police earlier reported recovering 6 ounces of suspected cocaine from the suspects' car the night of the incident.

The warrant alleges attempted capital murder of a police officer. It and police said Portsmouth undercover narcotics investigators had tried to arrest two men in the 3800 block of Schooner Trail, a residential street of two-story brick-and-vinyl townhouses about a half-mile from the Portsmouth city line.

The men killed were Demetrius D. Edens, 28, of Chesapeake, who police said was the driver, and Darren S. Wilson, 25, of Virginia Beach. Edens died of multiple wounds to the chest and neck, and Wilson died of a shot to the head.

Police impounded the car, a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu, and have retrieved data from an onboard recorder that may show whether the car was accelerating or braking at impact. The affidavit supporting the search warrant for the car's contents said police were seeking identification and other documents, cell phones, firearms, ammunition and projectiles.

Matthew Bowers, (757) 222-3893, matthew.bowers@pilotonline.com