ACCOMACK COUNTY, Va. — Authorities say a 25-year-old man was shot and killed late Wednesday night outside a Royal Farms on Wallops Island, Accomack County.

According to Sheriff W. Todd Wessells, the Accomack County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call for “shots fired” at the convenience store on Chincoteague Road around 11:24 p.m. on Wednesday.

Deputies arrived to find an unresponsive man suffering from gunshot wounds. The victim, identified as Miguel Ethan Soto Trader, 25, of New Church, was pronounced dead at the scene. His body was later taken to the Norfolk Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy.

Following an investigation, deputies obtained warrants for David Dean Bowden Jr., 19, of New Church. He is charged with second-degree murder, discharging a firearm within a building, use

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