Crime & Safety

Police: Bullet from Fired Gun Traveled Through Neighboring Centreville Home

No one was injured in the incident.

A bullet discharged from a weapon inside a Centreville home on Saturday managed to travel through its walls and into those of a neighboring house.

Fairfax County Police received a call to respond to a home on the 14100 block of Sorrell Chase Court at 11:28 a.m., Fairfax County Master Police Officer Eddy Azcarate said. 

No one was injured, but police did say a round was discharged and ended up traveling from that home to a nearby home, Azcarate said. 

Police said 54-year-old Jay Hurst of Sorrell Chase Court is charged with discharging a firearm or missile within or at a building or dwelling house. 

He was taken to the Fairfax County Adult Detention in Fairfax. Bond and release information isn't immediately available. 




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