CRIME & SAFETY
Fire badly damages Fairfax County home
MERRIFIELD, Va. - Fire investigators are still searching for the cause of a fire that badly damaged a home Thursday night in northern Virginia. Firefighters responded to the 2900 block of Home Place in the Merrifield area around 10:30 p.m. where they found smoke and flames billowing into the sky from the rear of the home. An image posted on X, formerly Twitter, by Fairfax County Fire and Rescue shows firefighters attacking the flames from the ground.
Bride-to-be shot during bachelorette party at Decades: 'I will never return to DC streets'
FOX 5 EXCLUSIVE - A woman shot at her bachelorette party over the weekend says she was terrified after shots rang out at a popular nightclub near Dupont Circle. Katie told FOX 5's Shomari Stone exclusively she was having a good time inside Decades DC, a three-story nightclub, located on Connecticut Avenue NW.
Fairfax County police break up another car meetup weeks after violent ‘street takeover’
CHANTILLY, Va. (DC News Now) — Over the weekend, Fairfax County Police Department (FCPD) officers and Virginia State Police troopers broke up a car meetup, which started elsewhere but ended in a Wegmans parking lot in Chantilly. The meetup, which ended without any arrests, comes just a few weeks after a “street takeover” left an […]
Man charged in rideshare fight, shooting in Lorton
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — Police said they arrested a man who is accused of opening fire on fellow rideshare passenger whom he didn’t know. The Fairfax County Police Department (FCPD) said Yusef Roy, 32, of Lorton faces charges related to the incident, which took place on March 1. Officers went to the […]
Fifth body recovered from site of Key Bridge collapse, victim identified
A fifth body has been recovered from the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. Unified Command officials said crews recovered the body Wednesday. The victim was identified as Miguel Angel Luna Gonzalez, 49, of Glen Burnie. Salvage teams notified Maryland State Police investigators and officers from the Maryland...
'Killing whoever was unfortunate to cross their path': MS-13 gang member gets life for senseless violence that left 4 random bystanders dead
An MS-13 gang member accused of senseless gang violence that left four random civilians dead during a three-month spree of violence in Washington, D.C., in 2019 was sentenced to life in prison. The post ‘Killing whoever was unfortunate to cross their path’: MS-13 gang member gets life for senseless violence that left 4 random bystanders dead first appeared on Law & Crime.
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