EMPORIA, Va. – A woman was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being shot by a man police said was her estranged lover. The shooting occurred early evening Monday, near a busy thoroughfare in the 100 block of Atlantic Street.
Multiple jurisdictions were on scene collecting information. What is known at this time, according to her family, is that about a month ago Titiana Daouda, formerly was fired from her job as a corrections officer at Lawrenceville Correctional Center. The man who shot at her, Jarvis Green, was also a corrections officer there, and he quit shortly after she was fired, Daouda's family said.
The estranged couple has a young child together, Daouda's family said.
"There was some relationship, obviously, some issues had occurred over the past few weeks that escalated to this," said Ricky Pinksaw, Emporia Police Chief. "And he ends up shooting her here in the city."
Police are not sure why this violent unfolded in Emporia. They are both from the Lake Gaston area, near the North Carolina border.
Daouda and Green were in separate cars when the incident occurred.
Green began shooting at Daouda, and the bullets penetrated the vehicle door, according to police. She was hit several times. She gave police his name before she was taken away. He turned himself in shortly afterward.
Green has been charged with attempted murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and shooting into a vehicle.
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