PORTSMOUTH, Va. — A second man has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder after a shooting left a man dead and another woman seriously hurt in Portsmouth.
According to previous coverage of this case, officers were called to the Riverwalk Inn & Suites on the morning of Feb. 2, 2022. That’s on the 300 block of Effingham Street.
When they got there, they found a woman and a man who had been shot. The woman was taken to the hospital with serious wounds, and the man died at the scene.
He’s been identified as David Branch, 40.
For several months, the suspected shooters in the case escaped custody.
On May 6, Marcellus T. Epps was found by Chesapeake police. He’s been charged with First Degree Murder, Aggravated Malicious Wounding, two counts of Use of a Firearm and has seven additional felony warrants.
On Aug. 16, the second suspect, 32-year-old Demonte Rayshawn Worrell, was found by Portsmouth’s Special Investigations and SWAT units.
He’s been charged with First Degree Murder, two counts of Use of a Firearm, Aggravated Assault, two counts of Attempted Robbery and Firearm by Violent Felon.
