NORFOLK, Va. - Three men are dead and a homicide investigation is underway after five people were shot at an apartment complex off Tidewater Drive Thursday afternoon.
Norfolk police say the shooting took place at Fenner Gardens Apartments located on Fenner Street. The call came in just after 4:30 p.m.
Three men, Jarred T. Davis, 35, Quinton O. Sessoms, 43, and Calvin L. Wood, 44, were pronounced dead at the scene. A 40-year-old woman and a 40-year-old man were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. Police say that everyone involved in this shooting knew each other.
A family member of one of the victims says the shooting all started over drugs.
"Basically what happened was over some drugs," Garris said.
Quashira Garris says her father, Calvin Wood was one of three men shot and killed in the Fenner Street shooting
"Anybody that know my daddy, he didn’t get into any trouble. All he did was dj, drank, smoke his cigarettes and goes to work.
She says her father worked for the city of Norfolk, doing custodial work in City Hall. She says drugs were being sold out of the apartment where the deadly shooting happened
"Crack, cocaine," Garris said.
She says her father, her aunt and her aunt’s boyfriend all lived together.
"My aunt let this happen to her brother. Allowed her man to sell drugs out of her house, in front of her kid," Garris said.
"Who were targeting?" News 3's Leondra Head asked Garris. "I don’t know if they were targeting the other person that were also killed in there or what. I just know it was over drugs," Garris said.
"Was your aunt's boyfriend selling drugs?" Head asked Garris. "Yes and he’s downtown right now."
"Did he get shot?" Head asked. "Nope.
Garris says she was planning on seeing her father before he was tragically shot
"I received a phone call stating my daddy got shot in the head so I rushed over here to figure out what was going on. And I found out my aunt, she also was shot and is in the hospital."
Another shooting took place about ninety minutes before in Wards Corner.One man was pronounced dead at the scene and another was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
“With two separate incidents occurring so close together in such a short amount of time, it is understandable for there to be heightened concern among our residents; however, I want to reassure both of these communities that the Norfolk Police Department is working hard tonight to catch those responsible for both of these acts,” said Interim Chief Goldsmith”
Detectives say these two incidents are not related.
The Norfolk Police Department is continuing to investigate both of these incidents and asks anyone who may have information about either of these shootings to please call the Norfolk Crime Line.
