Next week’s scheduled sentencing of former gang member Detavis J. King for the 2007 slaying of Chesterfield County teenager Ryan Matko will be delayed for several months as his defense attorney seeks to have King’s guilty verdicts set aside. Defense lawyer Greg Sheldon filed a motion Wednesday to continue Monday’s sentencing hearing so he can obtain and review a transcript of the testimony given by Dominique Johnson, a key prosecution witness, who Sheldon suggested at King’s trial was the real killer.

A man found fatally shot in Petersburg on Wednesday has been identified as Harry Stevenson, 25, who had been staying with friends in Richmond, police said. Petersburg authorities said Stevenson and another man, Shamondray Chavis, 20, of the 600 block of South Jefferson Street in Petersburg, were shot early Wednesday as they were attempting to break into a home in the 700 block of Ramsom Street about 7:30 a.m.

Petersburg police are investigating the shooting death of a man who was discovered about 9:30 this morning in the 600 block of Harrison Street. Details were not immediately available. Police also reported that another person suffering from a gunshot wound arrived at Southside Regional Medical Center about 7:40 a.m. Esther Hyatt, a police spokeswoman, said she had no immediate information about whether the two shootings are related.

A man suspected of fatally shooting four men in the parking lot of a North Carolina television shop was arrested early Monday in Virginia, police said. Police in Mount Airy, N.C., said Marcos Chavez Gonzalez was arrested without incident at a motel in Henry County, about 50 miles northeast of Mount Airy near the state line. He was charged with four counts of murder.

Prince William County police say two teenagers have been found fatally shot at a home in Triangle.

Derek Edward Burkhead’s road to innocence or prison has been stymied by fainting spells, three mistrials and, yesterday, by an early morning jail cell fight. But the murder defendant appeared for trial yesterday with a swollen jaw, a new defense lawyer and a renewed plea of not guilty. “He says he’s ready to proceed,“ attorney John Honey said of his client yesterday morning before a clerk asked for Burkhead’s pleas to a second-degree murder charge and felony use of a firearm.

If executed as scheduled Nov. 10, condemned Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad will die by lethal injection, not electrocution. Larry Traylor, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Corrections, said yesterday that Muhammad, 48, declined to choose between either means of execution. In such cases, the default method is lethal injection.

A Hopewell man surrendered to police yesterday in Friday’s fatal shooting of an acquaintance in Prince George County. Robert Edward Moore, 30, turned himself in about 11:15 a.m. and was charged with second-degree murder in the slaying of William Joseph Miller Jr., 39, who was found shot to death in the driveway of his sister’s home in the 3700 block of Prince George Drive. Moore also was charged with using a firearm in the commission of murder.

Police have identified a man whose body was found Saturday night in a North Richmond alley. About 8:20 p.m., police received a call about a person down in an alleyway between Monteiro and Lamb avenues in the Southern Barton Heights area. They arrived to find Kernard T. Bowling Jr., 38, unresponsive with gunshot wounds. Bowling, of the 2000 block of Cleary Road in Henrico County, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.

David Ray Worsham, a shy man who never passed fifth grade, was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison for killing his 83-year-old mother. Richmond Circuit Judge Bradley B. Cavedo sentenced Worsham, 56, to 40 years in prison, with 10 years suspended. Cavedo found him guilty in May of the first-degree murder of Virginia Worsham. Witnesses called yesterday by public defenders Katherine Poindexter and Jonathan Roth testified that Worsham loved his mother, but that the two had a long-standing disagreement over his crack cocaine habit.

Circumstantial evidence from 25 witnesses over two days convinced a Henrico County jury yesterday that a drive-by shooting in Essex Village apartments last year was first-degree murder. Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorneys Heidi Barshinger and Owen Conway argued that evidence in the case established that Lamar D. Jordan, 26, of the 1200 block of Middleberry Drive in Henrico gunned down Rayvell B. Fitzgerald on Nov. 7 last year with a single shot from an assault rifle.

A fugitive whom police tracked back and forth from Richmond to Surry County in recent days was apprehended in Surry and charged in the fatal shootings of two Petersburg men last weekend in Hopewell. Shawn Wooden, 34, of Richmond was taken into custody Tuesday by a contingent of law-enforcement agencies that had been chasing him since Sunday’s killings of Kashif Temple, 24, and Antonio Spain, 22. The two men were found slain in a car in the 2300 block of Freeman Road in Hopewell’s Arlington Heights area.

Corey Bowman died at VCU Medical Center on Sept. 11, 2007, of a gunshot wound to the stomach that he had suffered the night before. On the ambulance ride to the hospital from the Essex Village apartment complex off Laburnum Avenue, where the shooting occurred, Bowman, 27, begged for caregivers to save his life. A Henrico County policeman sitting in the ambulance heard Bowman blurt out the name of his assailant. Bowman, who lived in Chesterfield County, identified the shooter as Lance Dominique Atkins, 19, the brother of Bowman’s girlfriend.

Gilbert L. “Duke” Thomas stabbed and cut his mother so viciously that the blade of the kitchen knife he used broke off at the handle and protruded from the left side of her neck. But Thomas, then 22, dutifully placed a blanket over his dying mother, her arms and hands covered with defensive wounds, before wandering away in February last year from the Henrico County apartment they shared.

Gilbert L. “Duke” Thomas stabbed and cut his mother so viciously that the blade of the kitchen knife he used broke off at the handle and protruded from the left side of her neck. But Thomas, then 22, dutifully placed a blanket over his dying mother, her arms and hands covered with defensive wounds, before wandering away in February last year from the Henrico County apartment they shared.