PETERSBURG, Va. --Petersburg police say two people are dead after a late night triple shooting.
Officers responded to reports of a person shot in the 80 block of Courthouse Road around 10:21 pm Saturday night.
Police arrived on scene and say they located a black male suffering from a life-threatening gunshot wound.
Paramedics rushed the victim to a nearby hospital where he later died of his injures.
According to investigators a second gunshot victim later arrived at the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
While the second victim was being treated a third victim arrived at the hospital with life-threaten wounds and later died from his injuries.
Petersburg Police are working a death investigation into both deaths, which they say are related and are asking the public for help.
If you have information that could help detectives, call Petersburg/Dinwiddie Crime Solvers at 804-861-1212 or text the keyword pdcash followed by the tip and send to 274637.
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