Six people have been killed this year in Prince William County, the same number of people who were murdered last year in the county.
The early Sunday morning shooting death of 19-year-old Christopher Nathaniel Weaver was the sixth this year in Prince William. It came less than a week after the shooting death of 16-year-old Brenden Wilson who was shot and killed outside Woodbridge Senior High School.
The first murder in Prince William County, the shooting death of 42-year-old Glenda Marisol Coca-Romero, shot and killed while working behind the counter of a Woodbridge grocery store, remains unsolved.
The number of violent crimes was down in 2013 to 438, a total of 42 fewer violent crimes than in 2012, according to crime statistics. Prince William police consider murder, rape, aggravated assaults, and robberies all to be violent crimes.
Earlier this year, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors passed a $990 million budget to fund, among other things, 25 new police officers. The police department in recent weeks has held job fairs to recruit new officers.
