UPDATE March 2, 2020: Suffolk Police say Laquinton Darale Blackwell is now charged with first-degree murder, six counts of discharging a firearm in or at an occupied building and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
Blackwell is being held at Western Tidewater Regional Jail.
SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Police say a man is in custody after a shooting left one person dead in Suffolk late Monday night.
Suffolk police said officers were dispatched to a shooting in the 600 block of Adkins Circle — in the Lake Kennedy Estates neighborhood — around 10:45 p.m.
Responding officers found a man inside a home who had died from multiple gunshot wounds. Police identified the man as 39-year-old Antoine Deandre Johnson.
A preliminary investigation led to the arrest of 31-year-old Laquinton Darale Blackwell. Police charged him with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
Blackwell is being held at Western Tidewater Regional Jail.
Hours after this shooting, officers responded to the Southside Meadows neighborhood where a 16-year-old was injured in a shooting.