Virginia Beach man is charged with fatally shooting a friend. He agrees suspect in video “looks like” him, police say.
Within hours of Keyon Turner being fatally shot outside his Virginia Beach apartment earlier this year, police had obtained video of a potential suspect fleeing the scene.
Soon after, Turner’s roommate told police the man in the footage “looked like” Treshaun Snipes, a longtime friend of Turner’s. The footage came from a neighbor’s surveillance camera.
Police then drove to a hotel near Naval Station Norfolk where Snipes, 22, was working a night shift.
Virginia Beach homicide detective Andre Jerry testified Thursday during a preliminary hearing in Virginia Beach District Court that he asked Snipes if he knew his friend was dead. Snipes said he saw the news on Instagram, Jerry said. The detective then showed Snipes images from the surveillance footage.
“I asked him if he knew who that person is and he doesn’t say anything,” Jerry said. “Then I showed him some stills from another video and he said, ‘That looks like me.’”
Snipes, held without bond at the city jail, is charged with second-degree murder. At the end of Thursday’s hearing, District Judge Robert Carter determined there was enough evidence to send the case to a grand jury.
A forensic technician testified that the bullet casings recovered outside Turner’s apartment were fired from the same handgun police found in Snipes’ backpack at the hotel: a Glock 9mm.
The shooting occurred shortly after 3 p.m. Feb. 5, outside Turner’s apartment on Mineola Drive. The complex is near Indian River Road.
Turner, 22, was about to open the front door when he was shot from behind. Prosecutor Mario Lorello said Thursday an autopsy determined Turner had been struck multiple times. He died less than six hours later in Norfolk General Hospital.
Turner, a 2017 graduate of Tallwood High School, had gone to school with Snipes for several years and later helped him get a job at the same hotel where he worked. No evidence about a motive was provided during Thursday’s hearing.
Olivia George, olivia.george@virginiamedia.com
