YORK COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) — Deputies are investigating a shooting that injured an off-duty deputy early Monday morning in York County.
Rachel Pace said she heard gunshots from the shooting. She lives in the Tabb Lakes neighborhood.
“This is safe neighborhood. We don’t normally have people with guns floating around here, so it didn’t occur to me,” she said.
The York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office said they were notified at 4:02 a.m. about the shooting in the 100 block of Leslie Lane.
Officials said a man was seen breaking into vehicles. A male homeowner, who is a deputy with the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office and was off-duty at the time, confronted the man.
He was then shot.
The homeowner was transported to a local hospital where he was reported to be in stable condition.
A suspect, identified as 21-year-old Jordan Edmonds Hilliard, of Hampton, is currently in custody, according to officials. Hillard is facing 15 warrants and 12 offenses in connection with vehicle break-ins and the shooting.
He is charged with several felonies, including attempted capital murder, aggravated malicious wounding, discharging a firearm in a public place, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, unlawfully wounding while in the commission or attempted commission of a felony, discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling.
Hilliard is also charged with several misdemeanors, including reckless handling of a firearm, false information to a law enforcement officer, trespassing into a vehicle, brandishing, four counts of destruction of property and two counts of tampering with a vehicle.
The York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office confirmed on Jan. 6 that the deputy has been released from the hospital.
No additional details have been released. If you have any information that can help the sheriff’s office, you are asked to call the Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
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