Fauquier Times September 5, 2018

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September 5, 2018

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Police: Brother admits to drowning sister By Karen Chaffraix and Jill Palermo Times Staff Writers

The Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office was called six times over the past year to the home of Angie A. Walls, the 53-year-old woman authorities say was intentionally drowned in an inflatable backyard swimming pool over the Labor Day weekend at the hands of her 51-year-old brother, who family members say suffers from a mental illness. The six calls, all made since September 2017, included reports of at least two “domestic situations,” according to Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. James Hartman.

Still, no arrests were made as a result of the previous calls for help because deputies found no criminal wrongdoing, Hartman said. In Virginia, law-enforcement agents must make an arrest in cases of domestic violence where there is evidence of a physical assault and a clear assailant. But that wasn’t the case when deputies previously responded to the home in the 6700 block of Riley Road, where Walls lived with her brother, Ashton Dunlap Berry, known to family and friends by the nickname “Leon,” and her fiancé, Fred Dove. “The two domestics were verbal in nature. There was no physical assault,” Hartman said.

As a result, the deputies offered the residents only advice about how to deal with their situation, Hartman said.

Police: Brother confessed to drowning

The situation turned deadly Saturday, Sept. 1, when Berry, 51, allegedly held Walls’ head under water in the inflatable backyard pool two times after the two got into an argument over Berry’s medication, according to affidavit attached to a search warrant filed in the Fauquier County Circuit Court.

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Fauquier schools’ scores dip on latest state tests Change reflects results among schools statewide By Karen Chaffraix Times Staff Writer

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Sonja Addison (center), her daughter Stephannie Addison-Mudd (left), and granddaughter Brooke (Addison) Moore (right) were the first three African American women inducted into the Warrenton Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) chapter, after proving their descent through an unbroken paper trail from European American Revolutionary War veteran/patriot William Eustace. Looking Back, page 21 INSIDE Business.............................................19 Classified............................................35 Communities......................................30 Faith...................................................34

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Fauquier County schools passing rates on Virginia’s Standard of Learning tests dipped in three of five subjects tested in 2018, but Superintendent David Jeck said school division officials are mostly satisfied with the results, calling test scores “only one piece of the puzzle” when it comes to student achievement. “The raw scores don’t mean all that much,” Jeck said Thursday. “We have calculated the final scores as we expect them to come in (later this month), and we’re happy with them.”

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