I mean is it even save to go to the damn GROCERY store anymore?
What was supposed to be an idyllic sunset excursion turned to horror for a Charlottesville man well known to listeners of WNRN radio and an 18-year-old female friend.
The pair— Tim Davis, 27, also known as DJ Prolapse and host of the Boombox hip-hop show, and a Fluvanna County High School senior who used to volunteer at the station— had gone to the Blue Ridge Parkway to watch the sunset on Monday, April 5, when they were attacked by a shotgun-wielding man at Rock Point Overlook at approximately 7:30pm.
Augusta County Sheriff Randy Fisher, who is leading the investigation, has asked the media not to name the woman because the gunman remains on the loose and may wish to harm the best witness of her attacker.
The victim’s brother, Scotty, says the attack on his sister and her friend was sudden and unexpected.
“She looked at [Davis], and there was blood on his face,” he says. “He was groaning.” The gunman then exited the car and approached his victims. Scotty says his sister— though wounded by a shotgun blast— scratched the gunman and tore at his shirt with such tenacity that she broke some fingers, before he pushed her over the embankment and began to hurl rocks down upon her.
“She ducked down and pretended to be dead,” says her brother in a telephone interview conducted on Tuesday, April 6, minutes after he’d finished visiting with his older sister in her hospital room at UVA Medical Center, where she was recovering from two skull fractures and a collapsed lung.
The shooter having stopped his rampage, Scotty says, his sister climbed back up and, screaming, flagged down a vehicle driven by a husband and wife, who called 911. As they raced away to find rescuers at the Parkway’s Afton Mountain intersection, according to Sheriff Fisher, the drivers of that vehicle— a Chevrolet Silverado pick-up— believed the shooter fired as they sped northward, but no signs of shots were found when investigators examined the vehicle. ]read the whole story here]
