UPDATE: The police officer involved in a crash in Woodbridge on Tuesday was headed to help someone.
The officer driving the cruiser had its lights and siren activated and was responding to a call when it collided with another vehicle about 5 p.m., at Rosedale Court and U.S. 1, in front of the Prince William Plaza shopping center, a police spokesman said.
A Dale City man brings new meaning to the term “hammer out your problems.”
Police on Wednesday were called to the 14000 block of Fallbrook Lane after two men got into an argument. Once it got heated, one man struck the other in the shoulder with a hammer, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.
Police identified the man who fell into the Occoquan River and drowned last week.
Gregory James Gilker, 52, of Occoquan fell into the water while docking his sailboat at the Belmont Bay marina in Woodbridge on Thursday night.
Rescue crews pulled the body of a man from the Occoquan River about 9:30 p.m. Thursday. They started CPR but it was already too late.
Police have identified last night’s drowning victim only as an adult male. His body was pulled from the water at the Belmont Bay marina in Woodbridge. It appears to be an accident, stated Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok in an e-mail.
School officials in a new report say there was a delay in communicaiton following a shooting at a Woodbridge community college campus in December.
After shots were fired at Northern Virginia Community College off Neabsco Mills Road on Dec. 8, it took up to 40 minutes to send voice and text messages to students, faculty and staff informing them of the shooting, and telling them to shelter in place, according to The Fortnightly.
