A 9-year-old Virginia girl was wounded Friday when her older brother left “one of his loaded firearms unsecured on the bed” and another minor “hit the trigger … causing it to discharge.” Deputies arrived on scene and found the girl with a gunshot wound to the leg just above the ankle, the Henry County Sheriff’s …
A 23-year-old Virginia woman wanted for the murder of her three older roommates earlier this week was taken into custody Thursday after a high speed chase on a New York highway. Alyssa Jane Venable was arrested shortly before 6 p.m. after New York State Police saw the gray Honda Civic she was driving on Interstate …
A 23-year-old Virginia woman is wanted for murder after her three roommates were found dead at a home in Spotsylvania County Tuesday night. Alyssa Jane Venable may have shaved her head to disguise her appearance and evade detection, the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said on Thursday. The sheriff’s office said it was called to the …
A former Virginia police officer has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for gunning down his wife and stepdaughter and shooting at police officers who responded to the scene for his hours-long standoff. Richard Crowder, 60, pleaded guilty in February to the deaths of Diane Crowder, 53, and Carrie Czaksz, 35, in July 2022, …
A Virginia chapter of the Roman Catholic Knights of Columbus has filed suit after the National Park Service denied its application to hold a Memorial Day mass at a national cemetery in Petersburg. The organization says it has held its mass at the Poplar Grove National Cemetery for more than 60 years but was told …
An abducted 15-year-old Virginia girl was found safe during a traffic stop Thursday night, and now a 28-year-old woman has been hit with multiple charges. But the man believed to have abducted Ronique Poteat, her half brother Tyrell Ashley Davenport, remains at large, WRIC reported. An Amber Alert was issued after Davenport allegedly took Poteat …
A Virginia judge on Monday found the evidence compelling enough to send forward the case against a 24-year-old au pair charged with killing a man last year who had just killed her employer. But that’s about as simple as the case against Juliana Peres Magalhaes gets, and it’s not half the story. According to Magalhaes, …
A 12-year-old Virginia boy is missing, and police in Portsmouth are asking for help locating him. Nasceia Johnson was last seen wearing ripped black or grey sweatpants and a black hoodie, according to WAVY. He is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs about 100 pounds with brown eyes and black hair, with a faded …
A Virginia man intentionally rammed into two pedestrians Monday night, killing one of them, after having an argument with his father and storming out of the house with the keys to the car. Chesterfield Police said that Daniel N. Anderson also called the Chesterfield Emergency Communications Center, “identified himself, and made multiple threatening statements, including …
The fourth suspect in a shooting at a Philadelphia bus stop earlier this month was arrested Tuesday in Virginia. Eight high school students were wounded in the shooting on March 6. Police said one of them, shot nine times, was the intended target and was hospitalized in critical condition, as CrimeOnline reported. Investigators from the …
Update 7:30 p.m.: Isabelle Pittera was found safe in a wooded area not far from her home, Chesterfield County Police say. “She has been located. She is safe. She is a little bit cold and scratched up,” a Chesterfield Police spokesperson said, according to WTVR. “She was located in a wooded area near Clarendon Park.” …
A Virginia woman has been charged with murder in the death last year of an 11-month-old baby who was left inside a car for several hours. Kristen Danielle Graham, 40, was initially charged with felony child neglect and misdemeanor animal cruelty last September. A dog was also left in the car with the baby and …
