A man wanted in connection with a fatal shooting outside an Alexandria, Virginia apartment complex was captured in rural Sampson County, North Carolina, following a three-week search, and he is now refusing to return to Virginia to face charges. Corey Stubblefield, 38, was taken into custody without incident on August 27 as he walked from a home on Hanson Road toward a nearby highway in Clinton, and he remains held without bond in the Sampson County Detention Center.
Stubblefield is wanted in connection with the shooting death of Charles Talley, who was found suffering from a gunshot wound outside the ParcView Apartments on Holmes Run Parkway. According to The Daily Record, Alexandria Police Detective Bailey Bertolani identified Stubblefield as the person sought under the arrest warrant, which stems from a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, per North Carolina fugitive records. Official Alexandria police records confirm Talley was 36 years old and had no fixed address at the time of the shooting, correcting earlier fugitive paperwork that had listed the victim as 18 and the incident date as July 14; the City of Alexandria’s account places the shooting at approximately 11:14 p.m. on Wednesday, July 15, when officers responding to reports of gunfire located Talley outside the complex and performed CPR before he was pronounced dead a short time later.
Alexandria Police Chief Tarrick McGuire has since said the killing had a “drug nexus associated with it,” according to ALXnow, offering the first public indication of a possible motive after investigators had initially sought community tips and security footage without disclosing one. The revelation adds context to a case that unfolded as Alexandria police were grappling with a broader mid-summer spike in weapon-related assaults; McGuire noted in late July that the city saw a surge in violent felonious assaults involving weapons even as officers pushed targeted deployments in Old Town and the West End, the same outlet reported.
Three Weeks Underground in Sampson County
In the days following the shooting, Stubblefield traveled to the Clinton area, where Sampson County investigators spent about three weeks trying to track him down, per The Daily Record. North Carolina fugitive warrant records list his local address as 133 Hanson Road in Clinton. Investigators watched him leave that residence on the morning of August 27 and walk toward a nearby highway — with The Daily Record reporting he was headed toward U.S. Highway 301 and ALXnow separately describing his movement toward U.S. Highway 421 — before deputies took him into custody without incident…