PORTSMOUTH
Police were searching for two people after a shooting wounded three teens Wednesday morning in Prentis Park.
Two boys and a girl, all approximately 17, were taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and were in stable condition Wednesday afternoon, police said. Their names were not released.
Detective John Doyle, a Police Department spokesman, said the shooting appeared to be unrelated to a shooting at a house in Chesapeake on Wednesday morning in which two teens were killed.
It was 11:55 a.m., Portsmouth police said, when shots rang out outside a duplex at 1508 and 1510 Richmond Ave. The two males, who are brothers, were shot while standing outside; the girl was inside a home in the duplex, police said.
Police said they think the bullets may have been fired by two males who were in an older-model, blue Ford Crown Victoria with tinted windows.
Police said they knew of no motive.
The scene is off Deep Creek Boulevard and Interstate 264. A few people came and left from the duplex Wednesday afternoon, but declined to speak with a reporter.
Another man who said he lived at the duplex did not want to give his name, but said the girl who was shot did not live there.
She was watching TV when she was hit by a bullet that came into the home, he said.
It's not clear whether the teens were students. City schools are closed this week for spring break.
The neighborhood is close to Portsmouth's Lincoln Park area, where at least seven people, including a 5-year-old girl, were injured in March when someone fired snakeshot into a crowd.
Snakeshot is packed into small shells and can be fired from handguns. The pellets spread out when fired.
Police have not reported arrests in that case.
Including that incident, at least 11 people ages 19 and under have been shot this year in Portsmouth, according to various police reports.
Police are asking anyone with information in the shooting Wednesday to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Pilot writers Janie Bryant, Cindy Clayton and Michelle Washington contributed to this report.
Patrick Wilson, (757) 446-2957, patrick.wilson@pilotonline.com
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Much Prayer
I am praying to the dear Lord to help us unite in prayer and community activism. Prayer changes things, and we must be vigilant in working with our law enforcement officers. We outnumber the officers; therefore, we have got to initiate taking back our communities. Wake up. Our own children (sons, daughters, nephews, nieces) are in jeopardy. How many more have to die before we feel the sense of urgency? I am praying, but I want to "collectively" do more, something.