PORTSMOUTH, Va. - One man is dead and four other people injured following two shootings in Portsmouth late Saturday night.
Police say the first shooting was called in from Commonwealth Avenue just after 11 p.m. That's in a neighborhood near Rodman Avenue and Turnpike Road.
According to police, officers located four people who had been shot and they were taken to area hospitals. News 3 is told one may not survive and the three others are considered to be in serious condition.
"It sounded like a war out here," said one neighbor on Commonwealth Avenue who didn't want to be identified for fear of her own safety.
She told News 3 on Sunday morning that she was watching television when she heard gunshots ring out in multiple groupings, followed by people crying and sirens.
"It was, like, so many (gunshots), that you couldn't count," she said. "The police was asking us if our house got hit and things like that, and then asking us if we're seeing anything and we're telling them we didn't see anything. We were on the floor for 30 minutes."
About a half hour after the first call, while investigators worked that initial scene, police say officers heard gunshots coming from another part of the city. Dispatchers soon took a call for a shooting on Virginia Avenue in the area of London Oaks Apartments.
Police say officers responded and treated a man who had been shot, but he didn't survive.
Police are investigating both shootings at this time. Anyone with information is asked to call the Portsmouth Police Investigations Bureau at 757–393–8536 or the Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP where they can leave an anonymous tip.
