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NEIGHBORS SAY A NEWPORT
NEWS WOMAN KILLED ONE SON
TO PROTECT
THE ANOTHER.
POLICE SAY SONJA ADKINSON
SHOT 24 YEAR OLD TE'SEAN
WILKERSON IN THE
BACK LAST NIGHT.
THEY WERE AT THE FAMILY'S
TOWN- HOME ON LOCHVIEW
DRIVE, THAT'S OFF
OLD OYSTER POINT ROAD. A
NEIGHBOR TOLD US THIS
ISN'T THE
FIRST TIME POLICE HAVE
RESCUE VEHCILES BROKE ONE
NEIGHBOR FROM HIS SUNDAY
AWAY IN HANDCUFFS, HER
SON 24 YEAR OLD
TE'SEAN WILKERSON TAKEN
AWAY ON A STRETCHER.
HE DOESN'T KNOW EXACTLY
THIS YOUNG MAN WHO CAME
TO THE DOOR TOLD US HE IS
A BROTHER BUT
WOULD NOT SAY ANYTHING
ELSE. WORD AMONG
WILKERSON ABUSED HIS
BROTHER AND WAS GOING
AFTER HIM.
HE WITNESSED THIS ON
SEVERAL OCCASIONS BUT
NEVER CALLED
POLICE HIMSELF.
A QUICK BACKGROUND CHECK
ON WILKERSON TURNED UP
NOTHING
CRIMINAL. WE LEARNED HE
HIGH IN
2008. AS FOR ADKINSON
WE FOUND NO MORE
THAN A COUPLE TRAFFIC
VIOLATIONS.
HE CAN'T IMAGINE EVER
POINTING A GUN AT HIS
OWN CHILD.
I ASKED NEWPORT NEWS
POLICE HOW MANY TIMES
POLICE HAD BEEN CALLED TO
THE ADDRESS IN THE LAST
SIX MONTHS. I FOUND OUT
THEY WERE CALLED TO
THE RESIDENTS TWICE ON
THE SAME NIGHT LAST WEEK
FOR DOMESTIC
PROBLEMS AND ONCE IN
SEPTEMBER TO TAKE CARE OF
PERSON. MEANTIME