A robber used a hammer to strike a 17-year-old girl, an employee of a dollar store near Manassas.
On Tuesday, January 13, at 12:38 p.m., police went to the Dollar and Gift store at 7630 Streamwalk Lane, near Interstate 66 and Sudley Road, to investigate a robbery. They learned a man entered the store and approached the counter where the two employees, a 17-year-old girl, and a 25-year-old woman, stood.
Crews arrived on the scene with fire and smoke coming from a condo unit in the rear of the building. As crews battled flames, an occupant in an adjacent unit had to be evacuated down a ladder from the second story in the front of the building, said fire and rescue spokesman Matt Smolksy.
Fire crews later learned a smoke detector alerted the the occupants of the home where the fire originated to the blaze. Emergency crews took one of the occupants in the fire unit was taken to a local hospital with a non-life threatening injury.
One person inside a home in Lake Ridge suffered serious injuries in a house fire Sunday night. The victim is at Washington Hospital Center.
At 8:35 p.m. Sunday, Prince William County fire and rescue crews went to the 12000 block of Purdham Drive for house fire caused by a burning space heater.
[Updated 3 p.m.] Sentara Northern Virignia Medical Center said that the number of incoming coronavirus patients has stretched its staff to their limits.
According to information provided by officials at the hospital in Woodbridge, the Sentara saw a rise in patients with the virus starting after Christmas Day. In October, several area hospitals joined Sentara in requiring all of it staff receive two doses of a coronavirus vaccine.
[Updated Monday, January 10] A pedestrian was struck and killed Saturday night near Logan’s Roadhouse outside Manassas.
Prince William police report:
A familiar political face in Prince William County will serve as the chief of staff for incoming Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares.
DJ Jordan accepted the position as Miyares’ chief of staff. Jordan, who lives in Prince William County, will assume the role on January 15.
