Neighbors talk about deadly Danville shooting

A no trespassing sign hung in the window of a house that investigators checked while searching the 1300 block of Washington Street, where police found a Danville man with gunshot wounds Thursday morning.

James Willie Adams, 35, died at Danville Regional Medical Center about an hour after the shooting. Police found him in the street after receiving a shots-fired call about 2:30 a.m., according to a news release from the Danville Police Department. He had been shot in the leg and torso.

Neighbors said they didn’t see anything that morning, but heard gunshots.

One man said his wife and grandson heard five rounds go off together, then a sixth fire. Another woman said that she heard nine shots as she grabbed her children and sprinted to the back of their house. Two bullets hit her home.

Police returned to the scene Thursday about 11:15 a.m. and searched the area for more than an hour.

Wearing a dark blue hat turned backwards, an investigator photographed the pavement near a curb on Washington Street while another poked at the rain-soaked street with his hand. Broken glass lay nearby on the curb.

A third investigator pointed diagonally from the pavement at a white house down the road. Police found bullet holes there and in another home a few houses down and across the street.

They checked the bullet holes with a wooden rod about three feet long. They placed the end of the rod into the hole, which showed the angle that the bullet hit the house and direction that it came from.

Investigators also found shell casings in the yard of a cream-colored house next to the curb that they pho-tographed earlier.

Police said the investigation is ongoing. They have not named a suspect.

Thursday’s killing is the sixth fatal shooting since June. Police have made arrests in the previous five incidents.