                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DISCHARGING FIREARMS OR MISSILES WITHIN OR AT BUILDING OR DWELLING HOUSE;
PENALTY (§ 18.2-279)

If any person maliciously discharges a firearm within any building when occupied
by one or more persons in such a manner as to endanger the life or lives of such
person or persons, or maliciously shoots at, or maliciously throws any missile
at or against any dwelling house or other building when occupied by one or more
persons, whereby the life or lives of any such person or persons may be put in
peril, the person so offending is guilty of a Class 4 felony. In the event of
the death of any 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 be done unlawfully, but not maliciously, the person so
offending is guilty of a Class 6 felony; and, in the event of the death of any
person resulting from such unlawful shooting or throwing, the person so
offending is guilty of involuntary manslaughter. If any person willfully
discharges a firearm within or shoots at any school building whether occupied or
not, he is guilty of a Class 4 felony.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 18.1-66, 18.1-152; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15;
1992, c. 738; 2005, c. 143.