PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Police have made an arrest and filed charges for a deadly shooting that took place earlier this month in Portsmouth.
Curtis Mitchell, 30, was charged with murder after 39-year-old Phillip Goston was fatally shot on Sept. 4.
Officers were sent to the 2500 block of Oakleaf Place near Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center just before 9:30 p.m. that evening after learning that a man was hurt there.
When they got to that location, they found a man with a fatal gunshot wound to the upper body. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
Mitchell was also at the scene. He was taken into custody and charged with Goston's murder.
