VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (WAVY.com)
"They searched everybody's car! Everybody!!" Lonnie Simmons was standing nearby as police conducted an exhaustive search of Mayfair Apartments in Virginia Beach, looking for any evidence in a shooting early Thursday morning.
"They checked every house," he says. "Every house, even on the other side!"
Police say 26-year-old Sherrod Bailey, formerly of Virgina Beach, was found dead in a car around 4 a.m.. A bullet hole stood out on the driver's side window of a white Lexus in the apartment complex's parking lot. Police roped off the area, gathering any clues in the case.
"I came out on the porch, and the police, they wouldn't let you get out here," says Simmons. Simmons says, he's never seen anything like a shooting in the 19 years he's lived in Mayfair Apartments. He also says it's a quiet neighborhood and he doesn't worry.
But he may if he learned the following. Virginia Beach's online crime database reveals a history of different crimes last year in the parking lot alone, including fifteen charges of theft from vehicles and six charges of destruction of property.
In addition, there was one instance each of robbery, assault, hit and run, and a stolen car. These numbers account for nearly half of all crimes in the apartment complex last year. Now there's another to add to the list: a deadly shooting in the apartment complex.
Virginia Beach Police have not yet released any information on a suspect.
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