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Yorktown teen pleads guilty in Ware Neck shooting

A Yorktown teenager pleaded guilty Tuesday to second degree murder and seven other felonies in connection with the January 2016 shooting of four young people on a Ware Neck roadway.

Dijon Lamour Whitter, 19, pleaded guilty to the murder charge, as well as one count of aggravated malicious wounding, two counts of malicious wounding and four counts of using a firearm while committing a felony. Whitter’s pleas were accepted by Judge Jeffrey W. Shaw in Gloucester Circuit Court and his sentencing has been set for Dec. 11.

In a plea agreement, Gloucester Commonwealth’s Attorney Holly Smith agreed to not seek additional indictments or to amend any of the eight felony charges against Whitter in exchange for his guilty pleas.

In her stipulation of facts, Smith said Whitter and five others, all from the Peninsula area, got together the evening of Jan. 16, 2016 and went to a party in Newport News. 

The group left that location and headed to a Ware Neck party, with D’And...

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