A 61-year-old man was shot in the leg early Thursday on Goodman Street in Norfolk, suffering non-life-threatening injuries. Officers were called to the 1700 block around 3 a.m. after a report of a gunshot victim.
According to WAVY, police were dispatched to the scene following the report and located the wounded man once they arrived. As reported by 13News Now, officers found the man suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg, and he was transported to a local hospital for further treatment.
Officials say the investigation into Thursday's shooting is ongoing, and police have indicated they will share further information as it becomes available. No details on a suspect, a motive, or how the shooting unfolded have been released.
Same Block Saw a Double Shooting in 2024
Goodman Street had seen gunfire before. On Sunday, May 26, 2024, officers responded to the 1700 block at around 2:40 a.m. after a double shooting, according to WTKR. Police found a 16-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man both suffering apparent gunshot wounds; the teenage girl was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, while the young man suffered only a graze wound to the finger.
Thursday's shooting comes amid a troubling citywide pattern. Norfolk had recorded 28 homicides as of late August this year, a 65% jump from the 17 tallied at the same point in 2025, according to Police Chief Mark Talbot, as reported by The Virginian-Pilot.
A Mixed Picture on Overall Crime
Despite the homicide spike, the newspaper's report notes that overall violent crime in Norfolk actually declined slightly this year, dropping 3% from 532 reported crimes to 517 compared with the same period in 2025. Nonfatal shootings told a similarly uneven story: the city logged 16 in the first six months of 2026, just one fewer than the 17 recorded over the same stretch in 2025.
Twenty-three of this year's 28 homicides were shootings, the Pilot's report states, and police had made an arrest in 13 of those cases, or about 46%, as of late August. It remains unclear whether Thursday's Goodman Street shooting will factor into that same set of statistics once the investigation concludes.
