Virginia Teen Fatally Shot While Trying to Break Up Fight at Party His Girlfriend Warned Him About [Video]

A 19-year-old was fatally shot over the weekend in Fredericksburg, Virginia, while trying to break up a fight at a bonfire party. An 18-year-old has been arrested for pulling the trigger.

The Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said it first learned of the shooting after midnight on Sunday, Aug. 31. near the Hunting Run reservoir, where a “large group” of teenagers were attending a bonfire party and “trespassing on property owned” by the county “when a fight broke out.”

Authorities said that by the time they arrived to Spotswood Furnace Road, 19-year-old Christian Archen Whalen was found with a gunshot wound “in the lower extremity” while attempting to “break the fight up.” Whalen was rushed to a hospital, thereafter, where he succumbed to his injuries.

“Deputies immediately began to render life-saving measures. A deputy on scene loaded him into his cruiser and transported him to a rescue squad. Christian was transported to a local hospital where …