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Police make third arrest in Hampton homicide

Posted at 3:12 PM, Apr 11, 2018
and last updated 2018-04-11 15:12:59-04

Photo: Donte Demille Hampton

HAMPTON, Va. – Police have made another arrest in connection to a homicide that occurred on March 25.

Donte Demille Hampton, 31, has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of 30-year-old Anthony Floyd Jr.

The shooting occurred Sunday afternoon in the 100 block of Kathann Drive.

A preliminary investigation reveals Hampton got into an argument with someone in the home and asked 29-year-old Willie Darez Milligan, Jr. and 30-year-old Anthony Carel Floyd, Jr. to come over.

Milligan and Floyd came into the home with guns out and exchanged gunfire with a 21-year-old man who has not been identified. The three men were all hit by gunfire. Two men were taken to the hospital for their injuries.

Floyd was pronounced dead while Milligan and the other man suffered non-life threatening injuries.

Hampton was charged with one count of malicious wounding, one count of attempted malicious wounding, one count of shooting within an occupied dwelling, one ocunt of discharging a firearm in a public place, one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, two counts of use of a firearm in commission of a felony and one count of conspiracy to commit a felony. Hampton remains in custody of the Hampton Sheriff’s Office.

Milligan has been arrested and charged with four counts of Use of a Firearm in Commission of a Felony, one count of Attempt Malicious Wounding, one count of Burglary While Armed, one count of Shooting into an Occupied Dwelling, and one count of Shooting in Public.