Weekend gun spree starts at Chinese restaurant

A late-night party at Panda Garden on Emmet Street this weekend led to a series of shootings that injured two and sprayed a home with bullets, according to media reports.
Police received calls just after 1am Saturday about gunshots in the parking lot of the Chinese restaurant. When police arrived, Sgt. Stephen Upman said, people were fleeing in their cars, and one van had its window shot out, according to The Daily Progress.
A 20-year-old Charlottesville man show-ed up later at UVA Hospital with a leg wound. He said he had been at the party when an argument broke out in the parking lot.
The shootings moved on to Gordon Avenue between 11th and 12th streets, where about 20 minutes later a 19-year-old Charlottesville man was shot in his right middle finger. He said he started running when he heard six or seven shots fired. About a block away, Jayme Crawford’s house was shot at least three times, and her car took one bullet.
Neither could say who fired the shots, since Crawford did not leave her house and the 19-year-old fled, according to media reports.
Clerks at the Econo Lodge next to Panda Garden told the Progress that some guests checked out or wanted refunds after they heard as many as nine shots.
Police had not independently confirmed these reports by press time.—Meg McEvoy