Woodbridge Homicide Suspect Found In Arizona; 2 More Arrested

WOODBRIDGE, VA — Three suspects in the Oct. 2 fatal shooting at Woodbridge's Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center were arrested Tuesday, Prince William County Police announced Thursday. The main suspect being charged was located in Arizona.

Shawki Saah Fofanah, 23, of Dumfries, was apprehended in Surprise, Arizona. He was charged with one count of second-degree murder, one count of malicious wounding, and two counts of use of a firearm in commission of a felony.

The other two suspects, George Kwasi Attakora, 22, of Stafford, and Musa Abraham Sesay, 25, of Dumfries, were arrested in Stafford County and Washington, D.C. respectively. Attakora was charged with one count of principal in the second degree, and Sesay was charged with one count of accessory before the fact.

Law enforcement executed search warrants at residences in Dumfries, Stafford County, Washington, D.C. and Surprise, Arizona. The FBI’s Phoenix field office, the Peoria Police Department, and the Surprise Police Department in Arizona, the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington DC, the Stafford County Sheriff's Office, and the U.S. Marshals Service.

The Oct. 2 shooting had killed Jasiya Ahmar Vaughn, 21, of Woodbridge at Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center in the 15200 block of Potomac Town Place. A police investigation found the three suspects targeted or assisted the confrontation with the victim. Police said the victim was shot multiple times outside of the Alamo Drafthouse during an encounter at night. Fire and rescue personnel treated the victim, but he died of his injuries.

Another person, an 18-year-old man who was an acquaintance of the victim, got a non-life-threatening lower body gunshot graze.