NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Newport News police are investigating the second shooting death of the day.
Around 12:23 p.m. on Monday, police responded to a “suspicious death” on the 1000 block of 22 Street, according to NNPD. They found a man with a gunshot wound, and at 12:27 p.m., he was pronounced dead.
The police said they have no suspect.
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Earlier in the day, Newport News police found 39-year-old Ashford Aaron Carter suffering from a gunshot wound and lying in front of a building in the 700 block of Waterfront Circle, near King-Lincoln Park Fishing Pier, just after 1 a.m. The victim was taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries and died.
Quashawn Lamonte Cooper, 30, was arrested as a suspect in Carter’s death.
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