High School Senior Killed In Robbery Was Due To Graduate Later This Month

FREDERICKSBURG, VA — A high school senior who was scheduled to graduate later this month was killed early Saturday morning in an apparent robbery at a home in the River Club subdivision, according to reports. A second teenager was also shot.

Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a home in the McKenzie Lane area around 3 a.m. for the report of a burglary in progress in which shots had been fired, according to the incident report.

Arriving on the scene, deputies found two teens with gunshot wounds and a juvenile unharmed, according to authorities.

The sheriff’s office told the Fredericksburg Free Press that a resident of the home shot the two teens, after confronting them as they came out of the back of the home.

The sheriff’s office identified 18-year-old Michael Bosworth, who was a senior at Massaponix High School, as one of the two injured teens, according to the Fredericksburg Free Press. Bosworth, who had a gunshot wound to the torso, was taken to the hospital, where he later died.

The sheriff’s office did not release their identities of the two other teens. One of them had been grazed by a bullet, was treated at the hospital and later released, according to the Free Press. No charges have been filed against the two teens nor the resident.

"I am saddened to share this news with you. I am writing to inform you that one of our seniors, Michael Bosworth, Jr., passed away today. We have reached out to Michael’s family to offer our support," said Dr. William J. Lancaster III, Massaponax High School’s principal, in a statement reported by Fox5.