Updated Noon — One person is dead, and four others are injured during a mass shooting in Dumfries.
Police arrested one person in connection to the shootings.
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Author: Potomac Local News
Police said the Santa slayer attacked the jolly-old elf at 2 a.m. New Year’s Day, January 1, 2023, at a home in Stafford Lake Village.
Authorities found the grinch wearing a red jersey, underwear, and one shoe.
On Tuesday, January 3, at 4:58 a.m., officers responded to the 7-Eleven located at on Route 234 at Purcell Road, near Manassas, to investigate a robbery.
The investigation revealed a masked man entered the store, walked behind the service counter, and demanded the store clerk open the registers. When the clerk initially refused, the suspect brandished a knife at the clerk.
A Spotsylvania man has been arrested after an incident involving a girl in Aquia Harbour over the weekend.
On Saturday, December 31, deputies were called to the neighborhood in North Stafford to investigate a suspicious incident. Police said a “pre-teen” girl was walking in the 3600 block of Aquia Drive when she was approached by a man in a van. The subject made a sexually explicit comment, described by a police spokesman as suggestive, to the girl.
A Manassas woman died in a crash on Interstate 81, more than two hours from the city.
Virginia State Police Trooper J.T. Lotts is investigating a single-vehicle fatal crash in Augusta County near Staunton. The crash occurred on December 31, 2022, at 7:52 p.m. on Interstate 81 at the 236-mile marker.
On December 29, the suspect involved in two bank robberies near Manassas. was arrested. The first robbery occurred at Wells Fargo on October 4, and the second at Bank of America on November 19.
Fairfax County police arrested the suspect on December 28 concerning a bank robbery in the Reston area. During the investigation, the suspect was connected to the two robberies in Prince William County.
Just before 2 p.m. on Sunday, December 25th, Stafford County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a disturbance in the 600 block of Ramoth Church Road. Police heard a man breaking windows. As deputies arrived, they discovered a mobile home had been set ablaze.
Stafford County Fire and Rescue units were dispatched for the reported structure fire and arrived approximately five minutes later. Stafford County Fire and Rescue crews extended multiple lines and controlled the fire in 10 minutes.
A fire demolished a single-family home on the banks of the Occoquan River on New Year’s Day.
Prince William County fire and rescue crews were called to the 5900 block of Yates Ford Road in Buckhall, near Manassas, at 11:44 a.m., Sunday, January 1, for a report of a house fire.
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center
The first baby born at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center in Woodbridge was to Farida Badakhsk and Safiullah Safa of Alexandria.
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