ROANOKE, Va. – A man has been charged with second-degree murder in a Northwest Roanoke homicide that happened one week ago, according to police.
Al-Sherreief M. Mahoney, 40, of Roanoke was identified as a suspect throughout the course of the investigation, and detectives said they obtained a warrant for him and immediately started searching for him. He was taken into custody on Friday by the U.S. Marshals Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force.
“I saw an undercover car sitting over across from the store,” said Steve Stover, who witnessed the arrest of Mahoney and caught it on video.
Stover said he noticed undercover police cars parked around his neighborhood, and then the car driven by the suspect pulled into George’s Market on Old Mountain Avenue.
“That’s when the US Marshals engaged and surrounded the men,” said Stover.
Stover told 10 News that he had no idea why Mahoney was being arrested or who he was, but the Marshals deployed a K-9, making the suspect crawl backward on the ground at gunpoint before being handcuffed and taken away.
We now know that the suspect is Mahoney, who was charged in connection with a fatal shooting at The Cove at Peter’s Creek in Northwest Roanoke on May 8. Around 8:20 p.m., police were told that a man was shot in the 3800 block of Panorama Ave. NW.
Officers arrived at the scene to find a man with what appeared to be serious injuries lying in a parking lot in the area.
Roanoke Police then rendered aid until Roanoke Fire-Ems personnel arrived.
The man was taken to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where he later died, authorities said.
According to court records, Mahoney is due in court on June 16, 2023 at 9 a.m.