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Police: 16-year-old injured in Suffolk shooting

SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Police say a 16-year-old boy was injured in a shooting Monday night in Suffolk.

Suffolk police said officers were called to the 100 block of Greenfield Crescent — in the Southside Meadows neighborhood — for reports of shots fired shortly before 8:30 p.m.


Police said it was determined that the teen had been dropped off at a local hospital following the shooting. His injuries were not life-threatening.

An investigation into the shooting is ongoing.

Hours after this shooting, officers responded to the Lake Kennedy Estates neighborhood where a man named Antoine Deandre Johnson was found shot to death inside a home.

Police charged 31-year-old Laquinton Darale Blackwell with second-degree murder in connection with that shooting.