A man was shot on Pebble Point Court in Portsmouth Thursday night, and officers who responded found him wounded and tried to keep him stable until paramedics could take over. He was then rushed to a hospital for treatment, though his condition has not been made public.
According to 13News Now, Portsmouth police received a report of a shooting around 7:45 p.m. in the 20 block of Pebble Point Court. Officers located a man with a gunshot wound and attempted to provide aid themselves before medics arrived on scene, the station reported. He was then taken to the hospital for treatment.
Police have not released the man's identity, his condition, or any information about a possible suspect or motive, 13News Now reported. The station said it would continue to update the story as more details become available.
Part of a Busy Stretch for Portsmouth Police
The Pebble Point Court shooting comes amid a run of gun violence reports across the city. Just days earlier, two male minors were shot on the 2500 block of Bird Lane near Victory Boulevard on a Sunday afternoon, with police saying the gunfire erupted at 4:49 p.m. and both suffered non-life-threatening wounds, according to earlier Hoodline reporting. That investigation remains active, with police saying they have not released further details, including anything about a possible suspect or what led to the gunfire.
Around the same time, a separate overnight shooting near the 3500 block of Victory Boulevard left one man dead and two other people injured, with the incident reported in a parking lot along Rapidan Street, per the same account. Police also responded to a shooting in the 100 block of Edison Avenue around 3:33 a.m. one Monday, where they found a man with a gunshot wound, according to a Yahoo News report. A neighbor described that shooting as a drive-by in which someone fired multiple shots from a passing car, and 13News Now crews saw officers detain two people that morning, though investigators had not said whether those detentions were connected to the shooting.
Crime Numbers Paint a Mixed Picture
The string of shootings has surfaced alongside city crime statistics that tell a complicated story. Portsmouth Police Chief Stephen Jenkins reported that overall crime fell 2.77% from July through September, even as robberies and aggravated assaults increased, according to WTKR. The Portsmouth Police Department has also said gun violence is down 44% compared with the prior year, the station reported.
WTKR separately counted seven shootings in Portsmouth police press releases issued around the time of the chief's crime update, including two on Nov. 1 and two more on Nov. 2 that were both deadly. Earlier this year, Jenkins said crime fell by more than 17% in the second quarter of 2025 compared with the same period in 2024, with robberies down 50%, while also noting that roughly 39 people had been shot in Portsmouth year to date at that point, compared with 37 during the same stretch in 2024, per the earlier Hoodline report. None of those broader figures describe a trend specific to the Pebble Point Court case, which remains an open investigation with no suspect or motive disclosed.
