UPDATE Nov. 6, 2020: Both charges against Dornell Marcus Collins Jr. were certified to a grand jury in court Friday.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — An arrest has been made after a man was killed in a shooting on Holland Road on Wednesday night.
25-year-old Dornell Marcus Collins Jr., of Virginia Beach, was arrested and charged with murder and use of a firearm in commission of a felony.
Police say they responded to the homicide in the 3300 block of Holland Road around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and found a man who had been shot. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
On Friday, Virginia Beach Police identified the victim as 29-year-old Nicholas Arthur Lutz, from Chesapeake.
Police say the preliminary investigation showed the victim was walking with a friend down Holland Road when Collins opened fire.
Regina Darden, who lives a few blocks from the crime scene, says she heard the five gunshots that apparently ended the young man’s life.
“It’s sad — it’s really sad that a life was taken and with this epidemic going on and everything else going on it’s just sad,” said Darden.
Witnesses at the scene gave police information that led to officers to Collins, who was taken into custody without incident early Thursday morning in the 900 block of Truro Court.
WAVY-TV 10 has learned Collins from 2012 to 2014 was a member of the football and track and field programs at First Colonial High School in Virginia Beach. In recent years, videos posted to YouTube show Collins using the name Nic3 Da Velie as a rapper. WAVY-TV spoke to a local music producer who said Collins reached out to him in April to book studio time for a recording but Collins never followed up with a deposit.
Collins remains behind bars in the Virginia Beach City Jail on no bond.
More information will be released once it’s available, police said.
Stay with WAVY.com for updates.
