Police: Man shot to death outside Va. shopping center

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Police in an eastern Virginia city say a man was fatally shot outside a local shopping center.

It marked another serious crime during a weekend of violence in the Hampton Roads region that’s left four people dead.

The Chesapeake Police Department says its officers responded to a gunfire report Saturday at the Holly Point Shopping Center.

The man they found there died on the way to the hospital.

The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk reports at least 15 people had been shot in shootings between Friday evening and Saturday afternoon in the region.

A Virginian-Pilot reporter died in a shooting outside a Norfolk restaurant and bar early Saturday.

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