Gainesville / Prince William Times July 18, 2018

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COREY STEWART ON KKK FLYERS:

‘I have always condemned the KKK and similar groups’ By Jonathan Hunley Times Staff Writer

The local chapter of the NAACP, elected officials and local residents spoke out in the wake of white-supremacist literature recently found in western Prince William driveways. Five speakers at the Prince William Board of Supervisors’ July 10 meeting even called for Board Chairman Corey Stewart to resign. Stewart, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate he has been associated with white supremacists in the past, missed the meeting but issued a public

statement about the hate literature the next day. “I have always condemned the KKK and similar groups,” Stewart’s statement said. “There is no room in our community for these vile organizations.” In February 2017, Stewart participated in a Charlottesville rally alongside Jason Kessler. Kessler went on to help organize the Unite the Right rally in August 2017 that resulted in the death of Corey Stewart counter-protester Heather Heyer.

Stewart also called Wisconsin congressional candidate Paul Nehlen, a self-described “prowhite” candidate, his “personal hero” in early 2017. Stewart has since disavowed any association Kessler and Nehlen, saying he wasn’t fully aware of their extreme views. More than 10 speakers at the supervisors meeting implored the board members to speak out against the racist flyers, which turned up in residential areas in Prince William and Fauquier counties on Sunday, July 8.

See STEWART, page 2

Prince William’s crime rate inches up in 2017, but murders plummet Homicides down 82 percent, reported rapes up 87 percent By Jonathan Hunley/Times Staff Writer Prince William County’s crime rate ticked up slightly in 2017 to 14 crimes per 1,000 residents. The county’s population stood at about 456,000 in 2017.

Four murders, all stabbings, were committed in Prince William County in 2017. That’s down 82 percent from the number of murders the county saw in 2016, which was 22. SOURCE: PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY POLICE INSIDE Calendars...........................................16 Classified............................................17 Lifestyle..............................................14 Opinion...............................................11

Prince William’s overall crime rate increased slightly in 2017, though murders were down dramatically, county Police Chief Barry Barnard announced Friday. Barnard released the police department’s 2017 Crime Report at a news conference July 13. The overall crime rate was 14 crimes per 1,000 Prince William residents in 2017, placing the county in the bottom third in terms of crime rates in the Washington, D.C., area, but up from 13.7 crimes per 1,000 residents in 2016. MurPublic Safety.........................................3 Puzzles...............................................12 Real Estate..........................................15 Sports.................................................13

ders, rapes, aggravated assaults, robberies, burglaries, car thefts and larcenies are used to calculate crime rates. “Prince William County is, and continues to be, a safe community,” Barnard said. There were four murders in the county in 2017, an 82 percent reduction from 2016’s 22. All of were the result of stabbings, and all but one resulted in arrests. (The offender in the fourth case committed suicide.)

See CRIME, page 2

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