1Virginia Beach man gunned down as police arrest suspect in under nine hours

Virginia Beach, VA – A man was shot and killed late Monday afternoon in a residential neighborhood, and within nine hours, police arrested a 19-year-old Newport News man in connection with the fatal shooting.

At approximately 5:25 p.m., Virginia Beach Emergency Communications received a report of a person shot in the 900 block of Thousand Oaks Drive. Responding officers found 34-year-old Markel Alexander Cephas of Chester, Virginia, suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Detectives with the Virginia Beach Police Department (VBPD) launched a homicide investigation and quickly identified Roberto Amir Inniss, 19, as the primary suspect. Investigators credited the rapid identification

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