Body found in Virginia, Balloons and flowers mark the townhouse where police say a Virginia woman was shot to death by her boyfriend, Edward Everett Hale Jr., early Sunday.
Hale was found dead near T. Clay Wood Elementary School in Nokesville on Monday morning, Prince William County police said. It's just over a mile and half from where police say Hale's girlfriend, Jessica Leigh Wilson, was shot and killed outside a Bristow, Virginia townhouse early Sunday morning.
Wilson, 31, was a mother of two.
Prince Williams County police say the couple had been involved in a verbal altercation before Wilson was shot. She was transported to an area hospital, where she later died.
"She was a wonderful young lady," neighbor Milt Sharp said of Wilson. Sharp said he witnessed the shooting and tried to come to her aid.
Hi had been getting ready to leave for a business trip when he noticed Wilson and Hale, at first just talking, inside a car in the driveway. Then, Sharp said, he saw Hale choking her.
Sharp said he shouted. "He let her go once he heard my voice, and she yelled out to me, 'Call the cops! He has a knife and he has a gun.'"
Sharp says he opened his front door and told his son to call 911. When he turned around, Wilson had fallen while trying to get away.
"He pointed the weapon at her while she was on the ground and she said, 'Ed, don't do this,' and he shot her," Sharp said.
Sharp says he immediately ducked into his house, shouted at his family to get down. He heard two more shots fired, then heard the suspect drive away.
Sharp said that as he performed CPR on the victim, his wife and son stood alongside him for support, urging him to continue with the heart-wrenching task.
"I was talking to Jessica, telling her that she needed to live, that she needed to live for her children and that I was here and that I was helping her and that she needed to live, and that they [first responders] were on their way," Sharp said.
Hale was found dead near T. Clay Wood Elementary School in Nokesville on Monday morning, Prince William County police said. It's just over a mile and half from where police say Hale's girlfriend, Jessica Leigh Wilson, was shot and killed outside a Bristow, Virginia townhouse early Sunday morning.
Wilson, 31, was a mother of two.
Prince Williams County police say the couple had been involved in a verbal altercation before Wilson was shot. She was transported to an area hospital, where she later died.
"She was a wonderful young lady," neighbor Milt Sharp said of Wilson. Sharp said he witnessed the shooting and tried to come to her aid.
Hi had been getting ready to leave for a business trip when he noticed Wilson and Hale, at first just talking, inside a car in the driveway. Then, Sharp said, he saw Hale choking her.
Sharp said he shouted. "He let her go once he heard my voice, and she yelled out to me, 'Call the cops! He has a knife and he has a gun.'"
Sharp says he opened his front door and told his son to call 911. When he turned around, Wilson had fallen while trying to get away.
"He pointed the weapon at her while she was on the ground and she said, 'Ed, don't do this,' and he shot her," Sharp said.
Sharp says he immediately ducked into his house, shouted at his family to get down. He heard two more shots fired, then heard the suspect drive away.
Sharp said that as he performed CPR on the victim, his wife and son stood alongside him for support, urging him to continue with the heart-wrenching task.
"I was talking to Jessica, telling her that she needed to live, that she needed to live for her children and that I was here and that I was helping her and that she needed to live, and that they [first responders] were on their way," Sharp said.
