Some more answers are coming from Virginia State Police on the mysterious deaths of three people in Nelson County last week.
State Police has now identified a third victim as Jasiah Davis, an 11-year-old whose body was located on a riverbank next to the body of 17-year-old Christopher W. Doss.
Their bodies were found on Dec. 27 after VSP had been alerted to a submerged vehicle in the Rockfish River near the intersection of Bridgeport Lane and Johnson Hollow in the Schuyler area.
A third body, that of Pharoah M. Shabazz, 30, of Arrington, was found in the vehicle, a 1997 Toyota 4Runner.
State Police have been told that there were two additional individuals inside the Toyota – an 18-year-old male and a 12-year-old male.
Search efforts have not yet recovered the bodies of those two.
State Police reported on Friday that Shabazz was the court-appointed legal guardian of three of the passengers.
The fourth passenger was a friend.
The vehicle became submerged when the driver tried to cross the flooded Rockfish River at a low river crossing on Bridgeport Lane and was swept away by the strong current.
The crossing is on private property.
The incident remains under investigation.
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