VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The Virginia Beach Police Department was on the scene of a shooting Tuesday that left a person seriously hurt.
According to police, officers responded to the 6400 block of Auburn Drive at 6:35 p.m.
When they arrived, they found a person who had been shot in the upper part of their body.
It happened outside of the retirement home Sands Apartments off of Military Highway, not far from Indian River Road.
A bloodstain marks the spot where eyewitnesses say a man fell to the ground, badly hurt, after someone shot him.
People who live nearby and saw what happened said as the victim walked down the sidewalk, a car pulled up, and someone got out and shot him. They say the car sped off while the gunman ran away.
“He was walking down the street and a car pulled up beside him, a young man jumped out. We wasn’t paying too much attention to it, then all of a sudden you heard a ‘pow!’ And the guy fell, hollering, ‘I’ve been shot! I’ve been shot!” And he started screaming," Leonard Russell said. “He was screaming, 'Oh, God!' I ain’t never heard anybody holler like that before.”
Russell said bystanders immediately sprang into action: a few people called police and one woman grab a piece of cloth out of her car trunk and pressed it against the victims wound.
“Got a cloth out, went to him, turn him on the side because that’s where the bullet hole was at – the side – and she was pressing it against to stop him from bleeding," Russell said. "That big pile of blood right there. It was bad.”
They were taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
Their name and condition have not been released at this time.
This is an ongoing investigation. If you have any information, contact the Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP or submit an anonymous online tip by clicking here.