DUMFRIES, Va. — Police said the woman who was shot on Graham Park Court in Dumfries last night arranged the robbery that led to the shooting and is now a suspect.
Police said the 23-year-old victim of Triangle rode with a 42-year-old man from Fredericksburg in a car driven by a 47-year-old woman to Graham Park Court just before 5 p.m. Monday. Police said the driver picked up the 23-year-old woman and 42-year-old man at Dumfries Shopping Center on U.S. 1.
Police said the woman drove the car to Graham Park Court to meet a man whom they did not know. Once there, the unknown man approached the car, displayed a handgun, began to assault the 42-year-old man sitting in the backseat directly behind the 23-year-old woman. He proceeded to take cash from him and, during the assault, the gun discharged striking the 23-year-old woman in the upper body, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.
The driver took the 23-year-old shooting victim to Dumfries-Triangle Rescue Squad on Graham Park Road where she was flown to a hospital with non-life threatening wounds, said police.
More in a press release from police:
Through the investigation, detectives from the Violent Crimes Bureau learned that the female victim was actually involved in the encounter with the unknown man on Graham Ct…. The female victim, now the accused, had arranged the meeting to take place near the cul-de-sac and had been inadvertently shot during the encounter. The male victim and the female acquaintance were not involved in the arrangement. Detectives are still working to identify the shooter in this incident which was not random.
The shooter remains on the loose and is described as black, between 20 and 25-years-old, 5 feet 7 inches tall, with a thin build and short black hair. He was last seen wearing a black beanie hat, black jacket with two horizontal stripes on the upper sleeve.
Arrested in this case is the woman who was shot – 23-year-old Sandra Lynn McKelvey, of Kilmer Lane in Triangle. She’s charged with robbery and malicious wounding and is expected to appear in court Jan. 26, said Perok.
