News4 is learning more about the 3-year-old girl killed in a mass shooting Wednesday in Dumfries. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder reports.
Security video shows the 17-year-old sister of a 3-year-old girl killed in a mass shooting at a Dumfries, Virginia, home running outside the house before a flurry of gunshots
Journee Carroll-Ward died in the Wednesday morning shooting in which three of her siblings and an uncle – all in their teens – were wounded. The teenagers who were shot are in intensive care where they are considered stable. All are out of their second surgeries. Three of them are breathing with the help of a ventilator but they are awake, a family friend told News4. More surgery may be required for three of them.
Police arrested 20-year-old Kenyatta Lee Oglesby of D.C. They said he was in a relationship with a 17-year-old female victim.
Oglesby is charged with one count of murder, four counts of aggravated malicious wounding and five counts of using a firearm in commission of a felony. He is being held without bond.
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A neighbor said he ran outside once he heard the shots.
“We came outside, and the girl was screaming, saying, 'Help me,'" he said.
Neighbor Sharon Garrett said she also rushed to help the victim, who also screamed out how she knew Oglesby.
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“She said it was her boyfriend that did it," Garrett said.
The other four victims were found inside their house.
D.C Superior Court records show Oglesby has a record in the District. On Oct. 7, 2021, D.C. police found a ghost gun in Oglesby's waistband and charged him for carrying a pistol without a license. In May 2022, he pleaded guilty to the weapons charge.
In October, he failed to appear for his sentencing and a bench warrant for his arrest was referred to U.S. marshals.
In January 2022, D.C. police arrested Oglesby on fugitive from justice charges out of North Carolina but later learned those charges had been dropped.
A friend of the family said the victims’ mother passed away last year because of a medical issue.
A fifth teenager at the home during the shooting is deaf and slept through it and woke up to learn about the horrible news.
