Woodbridge Senior High School Student Shot, Killed

8 p.m.

Several shots were fired outside Woodbridge Senior High School this afternoon.

When the gunfire stopped, the body of a 16-year-old Brenden Wilson, a student, lie lifeless, facedown, on a walking path behind the school.

“They must have emptied a whole magazine into him,” said Jerry King, who lives on Oakwood Drive at the scene of the shooting.

He was watching TV when shots rang out about 4:30 p.m. He ran to his sliding glass door to look out onto his backyard, and that’s when he saw one person running toward the street where pickup truck was waiting. King said the person jumped in, and the truck sped off to the top a hill and then drove out of sight.

“There was at least seven or eight shots,” added King.

Detectives at the scene were still examining the victim’s body at 7:30 p.m. It lies on the ground in what neighbors said is an area where teenagers go to use drugs.

“In just the last year, I’ve witnessed drug acts…I’ve witnessed three sex acts down here, there are kids that urinate here, and they don’t care,” said King.

King said his house had recently been broken into, and $3,000 in electronics were stolen. Police later captured the suspect who did it, he added. The burglar shoved snow for King prior to the theft.

“This place is getting pretty bad,” he resident of 40 years said.

King moved into his home just before Woodbridge Senior High School opened in its current location in 1974.

7:05 p.m.

The shooting victim is a student at Woodbridge Senior High School, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok. The victim’s family has been notified and police are expected to release the name of the victim shortly.

6:54 p.m.

Crime scene tape surrounds a portion of the parking lot at Woodbridge Senior High School.

Nearby the parking lot about 4:30 p.m. a 16-year-old male was shot to death on a walking path that bridges the gap between the school and Oakwood Drive in Lake Ridge.

We don’t yet know if the victim was a student at the school, as police have not released the teenager’s identity.

The suspects in this case were said to have fled the scene in a pickup truck. Two of them are black and a third is white, according to Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok. A search continues for the suspects.

The shooting victim was pronounced dead on the scene.

“We know the age of the victim so we’re obviously concerned it could be a student,” said Prince William Public Schools spokesman Phil Kavits.

Nearby, Old Bridge Elementary School still had children inside the building at the time of the shooting. The school was placed into “secure the building” mode and the children inside, part of a school-aged daycare program, were not allowed to picked up by their parents until police have an all clear.