More than two dozen schools in southwest Virginia were forced to close Thursday after the vehicle associated with a member of the United States Marine Corps wanted for murder was found in the area.
More than two dozen schools in southwest Virginia were forced to close Thursday after the vehicle associated with a member of the United States Marine Corps wanted for murder was found in the area.
Authorities have been searching for 22-year-old Michael Alexander Brown since Sunday when he was named as a suspect in the fatal shooting of 54-year-old Rodney Brown, who was found dead last Saturday at his home in Hardy, Virginia, some 9 miles southeast of Roanoke.
Michael Alexander Brown is the son of Rodney Brown's live-in girlfriend, according to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office.
Emergency dispatchers in Roanoke received a 911 call early Thursday morning detailing a suspicious man dressed in a black lace-linked coat near Patrick Henry High School in the city's Grandin Court neighborhood, according to Roanoke Police Chief Tim Jones told reporters at a press conference.
Investigators later confirmed that the man was likely Michael Alexander Brown and found his RV parked on nearby road, Jones said.