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Here’s the latest update from Prince William police:

Shooting Investigation – On October 24 at 9:40PM, officers responded to the Potomac Inn located at 13964 Richmond Hwy. in Woodbridge (22191) to investigate a shots fired call. When officers arrived at the location, they observed several individuals leaving the scene. The investigation revealed shots were fired which struck several locations including two different unoccupied rooms of the hotel. A black two-door sedan with tinted windows was also seen fleeing the area. Officers located shell casings in the parking lot. No injuries or additional property damage were reported.


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Fire crews went to the 12000 block of Hatchway Court at 5:19 a.m. to find heavy smoke and fire at a single-family home. One of two occupants inside the home suffered serious burns, and is now in a hospital.

The victim, and another man who was also inside when flames broke out, escaped the flames before fire crews arrived. According to Prince William County fire and rescue spokesman Matt Smolsky, one of the men who lives on the first floor alerted the second to the blaze.


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Prince William police tells they’re investigating two shooting incidents in the Dumfries and Woodbridge areas.

Shooting Investigation – On October 24 at 12:22AM, officers responded to investigate a shooting that reportedly occurred at the Tandoori Night Bar and Grill located at 14633 Richmond Hwy. in Woodbridge (22191) earlier that evening. Officers were initially called to an area hospital where a 27-year-old man was being treated for a non-life threatening gunshot wound.


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Updated 3:30 p.m. — Police in Manassas put in nine hours working an active investigation in the 8500 block of Bruton Parish Court near UVA Prince William Medical Center.

Police now tell us they were investigating a suspicious death. Investigators say they didn’t know the cause of death and released no other information.


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Authorities said a Washington, D.C. woman walked into a Sheetz off Courthouse Road in Stafford County, sprayed an employee with aerosol, and then made off with stolen goods.

At 4:52 p.m. Wednesday, October 19, Stafford sheriff’s deputies were called to the gas station at 15 Wyche Road. A store employee who received the spray of aerosol feminine deodorant to the face tried to stop the woman, police said.


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Updated October 21, 2022 — The Prince William County Police Department says Justin Allen Tothill, 34, is safe.

The department reported Tothill went missing near his home on Old Dominion Hunt Drive near Manassas on Wednesday, October 19, at 4:30 p.m. He is believed to be missing under voluntary circumstances and may need assistance which qualified him as being endangered, police said.


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