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Rescue crews were called about 6 p.m. Tuesday to the 700 block of Perry Drive in the Grafton Village subdivision near Ferry Farm when after the victim son found her lying on the floor suffering a gunshot wound to her upper body, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.

The victim’s son along with his father had just returned home from work and found the woman not breathing.


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The FBI has charged Yonathan Melaku in last fall’s shootings at the National Museum of the Marine Corps and Pentagon.

The 22-year-old U.S. Marine reservist was arrested Friday at Arlington National Cemetery after police saw him inside the cemetery in during the overnight hours. Investigators feared he was carrying explosive, bomb-making material in a backpack he was carrying.


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Police were called at 1:15 a.m. Monday to Marumsco Hills Elementary School at 14100 Page Street in Woodbridge. They found six windows on the building had been smashed out.

Afterward, rescue crews were called to treat the injured hand of the alleged offender, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.


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A Stafford sheriff’s deputy traveling south on Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1) saw an SUV headed in the opposite direction traveling at a high rate of speed. The deputy flipped on his emergency lights and began pursuit.

The deputy pulled up behind the truck and told his dispatch center he was pursuing gray Chevrolet Silverado with Oklahoma license plates traveling at 69 mph, said Stafford Sheriff’s Maj. David Decatur.


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Officers were called to the 14800 block of Cloverdale Road in Dale City at 4:29 p.m. Friday to take custody of a dog. Police did not say why they were trying to take the dog nor did they say what breed it was.

But the dog’s owner became combative, and officers then tried to arrest her. She resisted and then burned one of the officers with a lit cigarette, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.


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