                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SHOOTING AT OR THROWING MISSILES, ETC., AT TRAIN, CAR, VESSEL, ETC.; PENALTY (§
18.2-154)

Any person who maliciously shoots at, or maliciously throws any missile at or
against, any train or cars on any railroad or other transportation company or
any vessel or other watercraft, or any motor vehicle or other vehicles when
occupied by one or more persons, whereby the life of any person on such train,
car, vessel, or other watercraft, or in such motor vehicle or other vehicle, may
be put in peril, is guilty of a Class 4 felony. In the event of the death of any
such person, resulting from such malicious shooting or throwing, the person so
offending is guilty of murder in the second degree. However, if the homicide is
willful, deliberate, and premeditated, he is guilty of murder in the first
degree.
		If any such act is committed unlawfully, but not maliciously, the person so
offending is guilty of a Class 6 felony and, in the event of the death of any
such person, resulting from such unlawful act, the person so offending is guilty
of involuntary manslaughter.
		If any person commits a violation of this section by maliciously or unlawfully
shooting, with a firearm, at a conspicuously marked law-enforcement, fire, or
emergency medical services vehicle, the sentence imposed shall include a
mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of one year to be served consecutively
with any other sentence.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-152; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1990, c. 426;
2004, c. 461; 2005, c. 143; 2013, cc. 761, 774; 2015, cc. 502, 503.