Teenager mistaken for a burglar

By Linda Cicoira

A Greenbush man pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding Thursday in Accomack Circuit Court in connection with the shooting of a 14-year-old girl, who was mistaken for a burglar last year.

Thirty-three-year-old Alan Dublin Rodas-Merida, of John Kane Road, made the admission in an agreement with Commonwealth’s Attorney Spencer Morgan, who agreed not to prosecute counts of possession of a firearm by a person who is not a citizen of the United States, abuse/neglect of a child, and reckless handling of a firearm in exchange for the plea.

In accordance with the agreement, Judge W. Revell Lewis III sentenced Rodas-Merida to five years in prison with all but time served suspended. The defendant had been in jail since the incident occurred on July 12, 2021.