WASHINGTON — Police have indicted a man they say is responsible for the brutal shooting of a local store clerk and mother in March 2014.
Spotsylvania Sheriff Roger Harris said on Friday that 33-year-old Derek Sprouse of Spotsylvania, Va., was indicted by a grand jury for the robbery and shooting Kelly Wood, then 32, in the head twice as she worked an overnight shift at the Fas Mart off of Route 3.
Wood, a mother of three, survived but faced a long road of recovery, including multiple surgeries, as police looked desperately for over a year for her assailant.
“She is actually recovering a lot better than we had hoped. She still has a couple surgeries to go to repair the damage from the gunshot wounds to her jaw,” Harris told reporters. “She had a lot of reconstructive surgeries to work on her jaw and work on her teeth.”
Police are not saying at this time how they were able to tie Sprouse, who was shown on store surveillance cameras at the time, to the Fas Mart case.
Sprouse is currently in jail in North Carolina awaiting trial for an armed robbery at a convenience store in Kings Mountain, NC in February. He will be extradited to Virginia, but no word on when. According to police he will face charges of robbery of a business with use of a gun, malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, use of a firearm in the commission of felony malicious wounding, use of firearm by a convicted felon, and a show cause probation violation relating to a conviction of felony child abuse.
