The Farmville Police Department (FPD) is set to serve an arrest warrant to the party deemed responsible in the Feb. 11 shooting at Sunchase Apartments, according to FPD Chief of Police Doug Mooney.
FPD officers responded to a call at approximately 7:26 p.m. that night after a father shot his son with a taser, and the son then shot his father with a handgun. The father was transported to Southside Community Hospital, transferred to Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center and eventually released.
Mooney said the FPD is waiting for the responsible individual, who he said has a “substantial injury,” to be medically well enough for officers to take into custody and place in jail.
Mooney explained,“Talking with the C o m m o n w e a l t h attorney, we were able to piece together who was at fault and who wasn’t. Obviously, one person was defending themself.”
The Commonwealth attorney also notified the FPD of "what he wants to prosecute... I'm in complete agreement with what is decision was."
"It's just a matter of waiting," Mooney said. "Everyone knows what;s coming all the players involved."
The FPD conducted all of the investigate work needed to arrest the individual, reported Mooney.
Mooney hopes the FPD will be able to arrest this person within the week.
Neither of the individuals involved in the incident were residents of Sunchase Apartments, according to Janet Royall, senior regional property manager of Management Services Corporation and the developer and residential and commercial property manager of Sunchase Apartments.
Both men are family members of an independent contractor who was performing snow renewal services as per a contract with Sunchase Apartments.
Royall added that Sunchase Apartments requires any independent contractors to confirm that “neither the owner, nor any of its employees, have ever been convicted of a criminal act involving physical violence or theft, and further in this instance, Sunchase Apartments did not have any prior knowledge nor any information regarding this independent contractor’s ownership and possession of a firearm.”
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