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April 13, 2023 | Vol. 22, No. 15 | www.princewilliamtimes.com | $1.00 Covering Prince William County and surrounding communities, including Gainesville, Haymarket, Dumfries, Occoquan, Quantico and the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park.
Report: Violent crimes, fatal overdoses rise in 2022 By Anya Sczerzenie Times Staff Writer
Crimes reported in Prince William County, especially violent crimes and fatal drug overdoses, rose in 2022, according to the county police department’s 2022 annual report. The number of homicides in the county last year – at 20 – was double the number reported in 2021. There was also a trend of firearms being stolen from vehicles and a rise in fentanyl overdoses. The 20 homicides reported in the county in 2022 reflected the highest number since 2016, when there were 22. The deaths occurred in 15 separate incidents that included a quadruple homicide at a Dale City residence in October and a double homicide in Dumfries in November. The majority of the homicides were committed with guns by people who were known
to the victims. All but two of the homicides have been solved, according to the report. In an April 4 presentation to the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, Police Chief Peter Newsham called the rise in murders “concerning.”
Violent crime up 23.4%
Overall crime increased 15.2% in 2022, compared to 2021, while violent crimes, which include murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery, increased 23.4%. Violent crime accounted for 7.1% of the total crimes in the county in 2022. Aggravated assaults, which include shootings, rose to 954 from last year’s 737. In 2022, there were no reported hate crimes or bias-motivated crimes reported in the county. Hate crimes have been decreasing since at least 2018, the report said. See REPORT, page 2
Abducted N.Y. woman dies in officer-involved shooting on I-95
Supervisors Jeanine Lawson, R-Brentsville, and Victor Angry, D-Neabsco, at a recent board meeting.
By Shannon Clark
Supervisors OK speed, red-light camera enforcement plan Times Staff Writer
Be warned, Prince William County motorists: Red-light and speed-enforcement cameras are coming to several intersections and school zones starting this summer. The Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve a one-year pilot
York State Police press release. Davis was charged on Wednesday, April 11 with one felony count Virginia State Police are investiof abduction. He was injured in the gating the death of an Ithaca, New shootout with state York woman who was police and remained killed in police-inat the Inova Fairfax volved shooting on Hospital as of April Interstate 95 near 11 while also in the Quantico Wednesday, custody of the Prince April 5, following her William County abduction earlier in the day by a former Adult Detention Cenromantic partner, acter. cording to police. Additional charges Tatiana N. David, were pending this 34, was allegedly kidweek as the Virginia napped by Michael State Police Bureau Tatiana David Davis, 34, in Ithaca, of Criminal InvestiNew York, at 7:20 gation’s Fairfax Field a.m. on Wednesday, April 5, which Office continued its investigation, happened to be David’s 34th birth- according to Corinne Geller, a Virday. Davis was a former roman- ginia State Police spokeswoman. tic partner and the father of their 4-year-old son, according to a New See I-95 SHOOTING, page 4 Times Staff Writer
PHOTO BY JOHN CALHOUN
By Anya Sczerzenie
PHOTO BY JOHN CALHOUN
A Prince William County police officer strings crime tape around the scene of a robbery of an Apple Federal Credit Union in June 2022.
program that would place red-light and speed-enforcement cameras throughout the county starting sometime in July. The plan is designed to issue $100 infraction fees to motorists caught running red lights – or exceeding posted speed limits – that are handled outside the judicial process. See CAMERAS, page 2
OmniRide commuter bus fares on the rise, page 3
Fatty’s on the River plans summer opening in Potomac Shores, page 11
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