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A drive-by shooting in Lynchburg left one man injured and two faces charges.
The shooting happened just before midnight Wednesday, in the 1700 block of Taylor Street, according to a Lynchburg Police Department news release.
Quincy Orlando Petty Sr., 25, was found with a gunshot wound to his arm, the release said. He was transported to Lynchburg General Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Witnesses told police they saw a burgundy Chevrolet Cavalier in the area, the release said. A few minutes later, officers saw a vehicle fitting that description with three men and a juvenile inside.
One of the occupants —Nicardo Cortez Wood, 30, of Lynchburg — was arrested and charged with malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, possessing a firearm by a convicted felon, shooting from a vehicle, and shooting into an occupied dwelling.
Another man in the car — Michael Marcus Garland Jr., 18 of Lynchburg — remains at large. He is facing charges of malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, possessing a firearm by a convicted felon, shooting from a vehicle and shooting into an occupied dwelling. He is also wanted by the Virginia State Police for failing to register as a sex offender.
Anyone with information on the crime or the location of Garland is asked to call Det. D.L. Couch of the Lynchburg Police Department at (434) 455-6153 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 798-5900.
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I don’t understand. The news story says the 1700 block of Taylor Street - that narrows it down to about 100 feet in either direction. The text is highlited so that if you click on 1700 Taylor Street, it shows you a detailed map of exactly where that is.
Just a clue - any street in Lynchburg that’s named after a President is “downtown”, in an area that is partly restored Victorian homes of families and retired people, and partly drug-ridden tenement crack houses and gang hideouts.
Good suggestion, Lynchburg Native. I still think one sent from the reporter could greatly help clarify - and the job of a news story is to inform.
Street names could easily be linked to a Google map.
I have lived in the burg for almost 10 years now but do not (by any means) know where every street is located. It would be helpful if the N&A reporters began to make it a practice to reference major landmarks or street references when telling us about a location.
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