Article: crime and courts Ruling: Motel shootings justified.(Local)

By Matthew Bowers

The Virginian-Pilot

NORFOLK

A motel guest, shot in the stomach and chest and wrestling with his armed assailant, was justified in fatally shooting both his assailant and a second man beating a second guest with a chair, the commonwealth's attorney has concluded . The other guest won't face charges either.

Mothers of the two slain men said they disagree with the findings about the June 11 gunfight in a second-floor room at the Econo Lodge at 865 N. Military Hwy. Greg Underwood, the prosecutor, shared his report with at least one of the mothers Thursday before making it public.

Dante F. Cooley, 22, of Virginia ...

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