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Woodbridge
The meeting will be held online on Zoom. You can participate by clicking this link. Franklin represents the Woodbridge District, the site of a series of shootings in recent years.
Last month, a 9-year-old girl was playing in her neighborhood in the Rippon Landing section of Woodbridge when a stray bullet struck her. On June 9, Newsham told the Board of County Supervisors the child could suffer injuries that would haunt her for the rest of her life.
Someone drowned at Leesylvania State Park over the weekend.
The incident occurred on Saturday, June 18, when a swimmer near the boating docks drowned. Police began an investigation.
Two political heavy hitters will appear this week in Woodbridge.
Today, Texas Senator Ted Cruz will stump for Yesli Vega, who is running for the GOP nomination in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. Cruz ran for president in 2016 and stumped during the trucker convoy protests that came to the region earlier this year.
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Dr. Richmond Hill has been named Interim Provost of the Northern Virginia Community College Woodbridge Campus. He was named interim provost after the retirement of Dr. Sam Hill who served as provost for 17 years.
Hill served as a counselor, high school outreach coordinator, retention counselor, and coordinator of Student Success on the campus from 2009 until 2017.
Police are on the scene of a bank robbery at an Apple Federal Credit Union.
Police said someone walked into the bank at 14229 Potomac Mills Road just before noon today, pulled out a gun, and demanded cash. The robber made off with an undisclosed amount of money.
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A 9-year-old girl shot in Woodbridge on Tuesday, May 24, remains in critical condition.
Meanwhile, police arrested a 15-year-old in connection with her shooting. The teenager, who lives in Triangle, is charged with aggravated malicious wounding, attempted malicious wounding, shooting at an occupied vehicle, using a firearm in the commission of a felony, and possessing a firearm by a juvenile. Police arrested the teenager today without incident.
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A teacher found a student suffering a stab wound, leading police to uncover a fight in a school bathroom.
The investigation at Woodbridge Senior High School, at 3001 Old Bridge Road in Lake Ridge revealed that three students were inside a bathroom when a verbal altercation escalated at 8 a.m. Wednesday, May 25.
On May 25, the suspect sought in connection with the shooting that occurred at the athletic fields of Benton Middle School located at 7411 Hoadly Road in Woodbridge on May 1, was arrested.
Isaiah Malik Gordon, 23, of 16600 Harwood Oaks Court in Woodbridge, turned himself into police without incident. Gordon is charged with two counts of aggravated malicious wounding, one count of possession of a firearm on school grounds, two counts of use of a firearm during the commission of a felony, two counts of use of a firearm while on school grounds.