“I see people going down in the woods often, but I thought they were going through to the other side. I didn’t realize there were tents down there,” a man who runs a business nearby said.
One man died and two others are hurt after a shooting at a homeless encampment in Woodbridge near a busy shopping center, authorities say. A suspect from Fredericksburg was charged with murder.
The 911 calls started coming in from the Prince William Square Shopping Center on Smoketown Road just after 5 p.m. Wednesday. When first responders arrived, they found one man wounded in the leg and another hit in the hand.
Deep in the woods, in an area dotted with tents, they found a third man was shot and wounded. He was pronounced dead on the scene. The other two men, both 42, were taken to hospitals for injuries not considered life-threatening.
The man who died was Tevon Dean Haskins, of Woodbridge, Prince William County police said. He was 29.
Dean Campbell, 45, of Fredericksburg, was arrested a day later and charged with crimes including murder, malicious wounding and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Dean Campbell, 45, of Fredericksburg, was arrested a day later and charged with crimes including murder, malicious wounding and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
