A Virginia police officer was charged with a misdemeanor this month after he left his loaded service weapon on his sofa for five hours, before his 2-year-old son picked up the gun and fatally shot himself. Stefhone Christian McCombs Sr, 25, was charged on February 8 with allowing access to firearms by a minor in …
Hampton, Virginia, Police Chief Mark Talbot updated his community Friday on the search for 4-year-old Codi Bigsby, telling a town hall that police are treating the case as if it’s their own child missing. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the toddler vanished overnight late last month while in the care of his father, Cory Bigsby. Cory …
Update: Blacksburg Police said late Saturday night they had taken the suspect in the shooting, Jamel D. Flint, into custody without incident, the Roanoke Times said. Original story: A Virginia high school football star was shot and killed Friday night when a gunman opened fire at a downtown Blacksburg hookah lounge near Virginia Tech. Blackburg …
Police searching for a missing 4-year-old Virginia boy have arrested the toddler’s father on child neglect charges. Hampton Police Chief Mark Talbot said on Tuesday that both of Codi Bigsby’s parents were persons of interest in their son’s disappearance, as CrimeOnline previously reported. “The evidence doesn’t match what we’ve been told. So we need to …
Virginia authorities arrested a man they say tried to abduct a 9-year-old girl on Friday afternoon. The Office of the Stafford County Sheriff said that Steven Randall Williams, 34, stopped the girl just before 3 p.m. as she was walking home from a bus stop in Stafford and initially asked for directions, then grabbed her …
A domestic dispute at an interstate rest area in Virginia left four people — including three good samaritans who intervened — hospitalized with gunshot wounds on Sunday morning. Hours later, investigators found the suspected shooter in his car with a gunshot wound, the Washington Post reported. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he …
A Virginia man reported missing on Monday was found dead, buried in his own backyard two days later. Fairfax County police said they had arrested 19-year-old Philip Nguyen, the victim’s son, and charged him with second-degree murder, WTOP reported. Truman Nguyen, 78, was last seen on Sunday, the station said. Then police got a tip …
Virginia police are looking for a woman who reportedly left a backpack containing human remains in a dumpster Monday morning. Chesterfield County police said they responded to a store southwest of Richmond after an employee checked out a backpack left in a dumpster behind the store. The employee saw what appeared to be blood 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 …
Police in central Virginia are looking for a woman last seen more than a week ago. Chesterfield County Police said that 21-year-old Lisvi Celeste Lopez Garcia may no longer be in the area. The provided a photograph but no further description. She was last seen in the northern part of the county inside Richmond city …
Virginia parents have been arrested after Chesterfield police found their son’s body inside a chest freezer in their home. Kassceen Weaver, 49, and Dina D. Weaver, 48, have been charged with conspiracy to conceal a body and failing to render aide to a child, WTVR reported. Police said Eliel Adon Weaver was under five years …
A 27-year-old Virginia man is in jail after police responding to a disorderly conduct call at a Harrisonburg Super 8 Motel found a female employee unconscious with severe injuries. Eris Rubi Castillo was extremely combative when officers responded to the third floor of the motel and took him into custody after deploying tasers, according to …
