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UPDATE
Shooting – On September 17th at 9:40PM, police responded to the area of Woodfern Ct and Antietam Rd in Woodbridge (22192) for a shooting.
The victim, an 18 year old man of Woodbridge, reported to police that he and three other friends were walking in the area above when a vehicle, occupied by several males known acquaintances, pulled up next to them and fired several rounds.
One of the rounds struck the victim in the lower back while another grazed one of the other males, a 22 year old man of Woodbridge, in the head. The vehicle fled the area shortly after the shots were fired.
The 18 year old victim was flown to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The 22 year old male was not injured. This incident was not random. The investigation continues.
  -Police report
ORIGINAL POST 11 p.m. Monday
LAKE RIDGE, Va. — Neighbors reported hearing gunshots and now police are performing a full on crime scene search in Lake Ridge.
Officers are using flashlights and are canvassing the area in patterns, searching the streets at the intersection of Antietam Road and Woodfern Court.
Police scrambled to the area just before 10 p.m. Monday. There’s no word yet from police as to what went down here.
Neighbors are rattled as they looked on at the sea of police cruisers that have amassed in their neighborhood.
“It just sounded like a pop, pop-pop, pop, pop, and then I ran downstairs to tell my husband what I heard,” said Deborah Jackson, who lives across the street from where police had roped of the street.
She and her husband, Jerry, have lived here for 20 years.
“You can’t tell sometimes with the echoing sometimes. Sometimes people will be in the woods behind our house and shoot off a few rounds, but this is very different. This is unsettling,” said Jerry Jackson.
In addition to the streets, police were also searching the front yards of homes that line the streets as well as a tennis court.
We’ll bring you more information on this story once we have it.
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