RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A suspect was arrested Wednesday in a shooting that seriously wounded a person in a shopping mall near Virginia’s capital, police said.
William Ezell Taylor Jr., 23, of Petersburg, was arrested without incident hours after the shooting in the Chesterfield Towne Center, and charged with aggravated malicious wounding and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, police in Chesterfield County said in a news release.
Police said they responded to a report of a shooting Tuesday evening in the mall’s food court, the result of a fight between two people. Police did not immediately say whether the victim, hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, was involved in the fight.
Taylor is being held without bond at the Chesterfield County Jail. Court records do not list an attorney who could comment on his behalf. He is scheduled to appear in court Thursday.
Police are asking that anyone who was in or near the food court during the fight and shooting contact authorities.
The mall has more than 100 stores and restaurants, including four anchor stores. It is owned by Brookfield Properties of Chicago.
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