Henrico County, Va. (NewsradioWRVA.com) - On Tuesday, June 7, 2022, at 6:13 p.m. Henrico Police responded to the 5500 block of Barnsley Terrace, just off Nuckols Road, for a reported assault. Upon arriving at the scene, officers spoke with the complainant who stated his daughter, and her friend were hit by pellets from a toy gun.
Video surveillance from the home captured the incident. The video showed the two juvenile girls start to walk down the street as the male driver of a dark gray Tesla Model S began firing a toy gun. Both juveniles suffered minor injuries but were not transported to an area hospital.
The driver of the vehicle was later identified as Fernan Andres Chacon Gonzalez, 18, of Henrico. Chacon admitted responsibility for driving the vehicle and shooting at random bystanders with a gel blaster pellet gun.
Meanwhile, investigators were able to link the suspect to other similar incidents in the last 48 hours.
A woman reported a man inside a dark gray Tesla had shot pellets at the complainant on June 6, 2022, in the 11300 block of Nuckols Road. The woman suffered minor injuries. Additionally, on June 7, two other incidents were reported in the 4900 block of Hickory Meadows Court and 5900 block of Dorrington Circle. Minor injuries were sustained in the Hickory Meadows Court incident, no injuries were reported on Dorrington Circle.
Gonzalez faces four counts of simple assault and one count of malicious shooting into an occupied moving vehicle. He is currently booked at Henrico Jail West.
Henrico Police urges its citizens to be aware of their surroundings and remind folks about the repercussions of using toy guns in a dangerous way.