C.L. RUSSELL
The two suspects in a 2023 shooting at the Tappahannock Wawa Convenience Store will have their cases considered later this year.
Essex Circuit Court Judge John S. Martin set a July 2 jury trial date for 34-year-old Christopher L. Russell of Tappahannock. Russell has been charged with malicious wounding.
During a June 2023 bond hearing, during which Russell was granted bail, then Essex County Commonwealth’s Attorney Vincent Donoghue told the court that on the night of the incident Russell was engaged in a fight with another man. The prosecutor said when Russell began to get the better of the fisticuffs the other man’s friends began to approach during which Russell pulled out a firearm which he discharged.
Tremaine Roy, of Portsmouth, was injured in the shooting.
Donoghue also said while Russell did surrender to Tappahannock police, it was some two-and-a-half weeks after the incident.
Terms of Russell’s bond include that he be on pre-trial services to include random screenings for alcohol. Moreover, he was ordered not to have contact with Roy or any of Roy’s family members. Russell was also banned from the Wawa property.
D.T. BROOKS
The second defendant in the case, 30-year-old Delontae T. Brooks of Farnham, had a status hearing date set for July 2. Current Essex Commonwealth’s Attorney James M. Sitton II and defense attorney John Hamilton indicated to Martin that disposition in Brooks’s case should be reached prior to that date.
In an unrelated matter, a July 16 jury trial date was set for Tywain Rashard Fortune of Waldorf, Maryland. Fortune is charged with an aggravated sexual battery that allegedly occurred on October 14, 2023.
Also last week, Martin approved a monthly payment plan for a Mechanicsville man who previously pleaded facts sufficient to a destruction of property charge.
Michael Javon Hundley, 33 of Mechanicsville, entered the plea a year ago to damaging a gasoline pump at Watts and Sons Supermarket in Millers Tavern.
The restitution figure is $11,881.35.
In a statement of facts, then Essex Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney John March Jr. told the court that Hundley was at a Watts and Sons Supermarket gas pump when he was unable to remove his credit card from the device. Hundley subsequently damaged the pump, March said.
At last week’s hearing, special prosecutor Jane Wrightson told the court that Hundley still owed restitution in the matter and would be able to pay $100 monthly until the matter was settled.
Martin approved the payment plan with the installments due on the 7th of each month.
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