North Stafford, Va. –– A North Stafford man is dead after being hit in the head during a fight, sheriff’s authorities said.
EMTs on Saturday were called to the home of 42-year-old Darrell Blake for a report of an injury.
When they arrived, they found Blake suffering serious injuries and called a sheriff’s deputy for assistance after it was apparent that Blake had been in a fight, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
The fight started as an argument and then turned violent.
Blake is believed to have been punched in the head during the fight, and was taken to an area hospital where he later died on Sunday, said Kennedy.
Investigators say Junior Elwood Walker, 41, of Fredericksburg, was at Blake’s home on Saturday and was involved in the argument.
Walker is believed to have punched Blake, and the left before EMTs arrived on the scene.
After Blake had been taken to the hospital, sheriff’s deputies on Saturday went to Walker’s home and arrested him without incident, charging him with second degree murder and with aggravated malicious wounding, said Kennedy.
He is being held at the Rappahannock Regional Jail without bond.
Blake’s body has been taken to the state medical examiner’s office in Richmond where the official cause of death will be determined.
Walker is expected to appear in court on Dec. 9.
Kennedy declined to give the victim’s address.
