Police say Saturday shootings likely related, maybe gang-related

By Bryan McKenzie

Published: July 21, 2008

Saturday’s street-side slaying of a 19-year-old Charlottesville man, and the subsequent wounding of another later that day, may be gang-related, Charlottesville police officials say.

Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy J. Longo said police believe the men arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of Joshua Anthony Magruder are connected to local gangs. The Magruder slaying may also be related to a Page Street shooting later Saturday evening that sent a man to the hospital.

Magruder’s body was found early Saturday in the 700 block of Sixth Street Southeast. Two men have been charged in that incident.

“There appears to have been a conflict between two groups that could be characterized as gangs,” Longo said at a news conference this afternoon.

Longo said the men could not be identified as gang members, but said the men were known to associate with gangs. Police said there were many people around when Magruder was shot and that more arrests may be made as the investigation continues.

Police on Sunday arrested Theodore Calvin Timberlake, 20, and Bobby Wayne Gardner Jr., 25, of Garrett Street; Trenton Michael Brock, 20, of Ridge Street; and Rachel Denise Turner, 25, of Reservoir Road. Timberlake, Gardner, and Brock are each charged with first-degree murder and using a firearm in a felony. In addition, Gardner is charged with knowingly and intentionally possessing or transporting a firearm after having been convicted of a felony.

The three are being held in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail after they were denied bond at a hearing this morning.

Rachel Turner is accused of aiding Gardner and faces a misdemeanor charge of accessory-after-the fact. She was released on bond.

Police said the arrests were made at a motel room on U.S. 29 after police conducted a search of a Friendship Court apartment where the men were believed to be staying and found it vacant.

Police have arrested and charged Calvin Earl Maupin, 18, of Page Street, and Robert Jason Burrell, 22, of Bailey Road, in connection with the Saturday evening Page Street shooting. Police say an 18-year-old city man, whom they have not identified, was wounded when a passenger in his car and another man exchanged gunfire.

Maupin has been charged with two felony counts of shooting into an occupied vehicle and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Burrell has been charged with one felony count of intentionally discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle.

Police have recovered two firearms related to the Magruder killing and two firearms related to the Page Street shooting, officials said.