Manassas City Police said two men died and a third was in stable condition after a shooting Wednesday morning at United Rentals, 9415 Wellington Road. The joint release with Virginia State Police named the dead as Ricky Lamot, 48, and Christopher Serrano, 33. Police said Marvin Grant, 37, of Charlotte, N.C., an employee, fled in a silver Toyota Camry before officers arrived at 7:14 a.m. Virginia State Police said Grant died after a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a stop on Interstate 81 in Augusta County.

The afternoon release contradicts Chief Douglas W. Keen’s morning briefing, which said all three workers were in critical condition and that Grant was still being sought after leaving Northern Virginia. The release does not name the hospitals Keen gave. The morning alert described a gray Camry or Corolla. The release says the car was silver. Motive was not given. Tips go to Detective Speights at 703-257-8041, Detective Dranko at 703-257-8046, or Crime Solvers at 703-330-0330.


Michelle Davis-Younger spent her last night as mayor listening to other people tell her who she had been.

They called her Mayor Parks. She called herself Mrs. Parks. The city website still says Davis-Younger. The letter on file says she is done Wednesday, Sept. 30 — three months earlier than the December exit she announced in February, and two years short of the term she won in 2024.


The 43rd Manassas Fall Jubilee fills Historic Downtown Manassas on Saturday, Oct. 3, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The city flagged the date on Facebook late Friday, calling it a weekend of fall fun and pointing residents to Oct. 3. The festival is the first-Saturday-in-October event Historic Manassas Inc. runs on Center Street and the side streets around the train depot.


Game Over Escape Rooms is open at 8955 Center Street in Historic Downtown Manassas.

Eleftherios “Ares” Nakos and Jonathan Thompson spent nearly three years planning the shop, the city’s economic development newsletter reported Thursday. They said the idea started with a shared love of escape rooms. Their research included a trip to Florida, where they played 12 Game Over rooms in two days before signing on with the franchise.


MANASSAS, Va. — Manassas officials were back on utility rates Monday, months after the city raised its own charges and a Dominion wholesale pass-through landed on May electric bills.

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Theodore Charlton and Theodore Wehner, seniors at Osbourn High School in Manassas, have been named Semifinalists in the 2027 National Merit Scholarship Program.

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ARTfactory’s four-story haunted attraction is returning to downtown Manassas this October with a new immersive storyline, Factory of Fear: Outbreak, the organization said in a release.

The annual fundraiser transforms the historic ARTfactory building into a walk-through experience built around infection, quarantine and chaos, with live scare actors, special effects and new sets on each floor, according to the release. Proceeds support ARTfactory and its accessible arts programming.


Manassas City Council spent Monday night on what a November First Friday might look like after the city and Historic Manassas Inc. already paused the October event. There was no vote.

Vice Mayor Mark D. Wolfe presided. While not present Monday, Mayor Michelle Davis-Younger remains in office through Sept. 30.


Manassas City School Board member Sara Brescia sued the board she sits on.

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