Henrico Police arrest 2 in separate Tuesday shootings

Henrico Police arrested two people in connection with two separate shootings in the county Tuesday.

Eighteen-year-old Benjamin A. Newton faces charges of involuntary manslaughter and firing a weapon in an occupied dwelling in connection with a shooting Tuesday morning at the Abbington West End Apartments just off Staples Mill Road that left 18-year-old Brittney J. Peyton of Hanover dead.

Police have not described a motive for the shooting.

That incident took place just a few blocks from the scene of a Monday morning shooting, which involved two adult females – one of whom (27-year-old Sha’Keela I. Johnson of Henrico) then drove away, prompting a police chase that ended with her suicide on I-95 in Chesterfield County a short time later.

Also Tuesday, police arrested a juvenile male in connection with a shooting at about noon Tuesday in the 100 block of North Rose Avenue in Highland Springs. That incident left another juvenile male hospitalized with critical injuries. The alleged shooter, who police said knew his victim, now faces charges of aggravated malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a juvenile.

Police are withholding his identity because of his age.