Schwartz v. Commonwealth

SENIOR JUSTICE COMPTON

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Shortly after midnight on Monday, May 28, 2001, defendant Marc Andre Schwartz and three male companions, all teenagers and fueled by consumption of alcoholic beverages, embarked on a vandalism spree in western Henrico County. During the next several hours, the group broke windows in school busses and an automobile with bats and tools, and slashed tires on motor vehicles with a knife. Shortly before 2:45 a.m., in heavy rain, the vandals arrived at the residence of Michael Wayne Drye, whom they did not know.

Drye’s two vehicles, a Ford…