Killer night of chaos
2 slain & 8 hurt in Va. Beach gunfire
A chaotic night of gunfire in Virginia Beach, Va., left eight wounded and two dead as of Saturday, authorities said.
Deshayla “Shay” Harris, 29, a star of the reality TV show “Bad Girls Club,” was among the dead in the Friday-night violence. Police said she was a bystander who got caught in the crossfire.
The other slain person was Donovan W. Lynch, 25, a potential suspect who was shot by a Virginia Beach police officer, according to the city’s police department.
At least eight people were treated for gunshot wounds in hospitals, with several fighting for their lives as of late Saturday.
The mayhem, which began with an eruption of gunfire at about 11:30 p.m., stretched across three locations and included a police officer who suffered cuts and bruises after he was struck by a car.
Three men were arrested and charged with gun-related crimes.
Officers patrolling the main strip of the beachfront community heard the initial gunfire after a large brawl and found multiple gunshot victims when they got to the crowded scene, police said.
Once the shooting started, the crowd scattered, and about 20 minutes later, more shots erupted in a parking lot several blocks away, police said.
Although the two incidents were initially believed to be related, police said they were separate.
Harris was shot and died at the scene, authorities said.
The Norfolk, Va., woman — who had been on the final season of Oxygen’s “Bad Girls Club” in 2017 — posted Instagram video of herself hours before the shooting.
“I’m only doing s- -t that’s gonna make me elevate!” she wrote along with two clips of her at what appeared to be a bar.
Her sister, Tashara “Shani” Harris, lamented the loss of her sibling in a Facebook post early Saturday.
“I didn’t get a txt from you this morning, you broke my heart Deshayla Shay Harris, why you leave us like this? My heart hurt so bad,” she wrote.
Police did not say what caused one of their own to shoot and kill Lynch, of Virginia Beach. The department would say only that a uniformed officer “encountered an armed citizen which resulted in a police-involved shooting.”
The three arrested men — Ahmon Jaree Adams, 22, of Chesapeake, Va., and Nyquez Tyyon Baker, 18, and Devon Maurice Dorsey Jr., 20, both of Virginia Beach — were charged with seven counts of felonious assault, use of a firearm in commission of a felony and reckless handling of a firearm.
All three were involved in the first incident, cops said.