Video from Virginia’s Central State Hospital shows the agonizing minutes that 10 sheriff’s deputies and hospital staff piled onto a Black man suffering from a mental health crisis, ultimately killing him as he was trapped at the bottom of the pile in handcuffs and leg shackles. Seven deputies and three members of the hospitals security …
Seven Virginia sheriff’s deputies and three hospital security guards have been charged with second degree murder in the death of a 28-year-old man in the thralls of a mental health crisis earlier this month. Irvo (pronounced EYE vo) Otieno died from asphyxiation on March 6 when the deputies and security guards piled on top of …
A Virginia 7th grader was hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday after being stabbed by another student in a locker room at a Henrico County middle school. The Henrico Police Department said a school resource officer was alerted to the Brookland Middle School stabbing shortly before noon. While the victim was rushed to the hospital, the …
A retired Virginia police officer has been charged with the fatal shooting of his wife and stepdaughter on Saturday, as professional movers were packing up the women’s belongings so they could move out of the house. Court papers filed on Wednesday say that Richard C. Crowder held his former Henrico County colleagues at bay in …
Virginia authorities have identified the two women who have not been found after their group of twelve went over a James River dam in high water on Monday. Crews returned to the river Wednesday morning in their search for Lauren Winstead, 23, and Sarah Erway, 28, WWBT reported. Nine of the group were rescued on …
A 14-year-old Virginia boy charged with shooting and killing a middle-school girl earlier this year now faces new charges, including social media threats to shoot up a school. Lucia Bremer, 13, was walking down the street with a friend at about 4:30 p.m. on March 26 when someone approached the pair and shot her, as …
Harry Rogers is also charged with 3 felonies that will go before a grand jury next month.
A Virginia man charged with driving his truck into a crowd of peaceful protesters in Henrico County north of Richmond on Sunday is “an admitted leader of the Ku Klux Klan and a propagandist for Confederate ideology,” the Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney said on Monday. Shannon Taylor said in a statement that her office was “investigating …
