OSBOURN PARK SOFTBALL SURVIVES WOODBRIDGE: Yellow Jackets move on to states. SPORTS, PAGE 9-10
June 1, 2023 | Vol. 22, No. 22 | 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.
3 dead in quadruple shooting in Dale City By Jill Palermo
Times Staff Writer
PHOTO BY JOHN CALHOUN
Prince William County police respond to a fatal quadruple shooting in the 14700 block of Birchdale Drive in Dale City.
A third man has died of gunshot wounds suffered Friday during a quadruple shooting in a Dale City home. Police released the victims’ identities Monday but have not yet announced an arrest nor a motive for the gunfire. On Monday, May 29, police identified the three fatalities as Edwin Geovanny Salmon, 37; Luis Alonzo Salgado-Rivas, 41; and Kevin Josue Vallecillo Mendoza, 23, all of Woodbridge, according to Master Police Officer Renee Carr, a Prince William County police spokeswoman. The police investigation has so far determined that the suspect -- who has neither been identified nor arrested -- opened fire during a gathering inside a home in the 14700 block of Birchdale Avenue at about 2:25 p.m. on Friday, May 26, striking four men. The home is located directly across the street from the Birchdale Park and Community Center in Dale City. See SHOOTING, page 5
Local GOP candidates vow to ‘tighten’ voting laws
Warrenton Town Councilman David McGuire, in blue shirt, greets Tim Cywinski, of the Sierra Club of Virginia, during a May 24 protest against the rapid expansion of data centers in Northern Virginia outside Bisnow’s DICE East data center conference at Tysons Corner.
By Cher Muzyk
Times Staff Writer
During a recent forum, Republican candidates for local state Senate and House of Delegates seats said they disagreed with Virginia’s law that allows 45 days of early voting and said they would work to shorten the length of early voting, reinstate a photo-identification requirement and do away with same-day voter registration if elected in November. “Too many people have easy access to voting” in Virginia, said John Stirrup, who is vying for the Republican nomination to run for the House of Delegates’ 21st District seat in the June 20 primary. “Voting needs to be tightened up.” Stirrup made the remarks during a Thursday, May 18 forum hosted by the Bull Run Republican Women’s Club and held at Out of the Blue Crabs & Seafood restaurant in Gainesville. “I think voting has gotten way too liberalized in Virginia,” Stirrup said. “Case in point, we now are engaged in 45 days of early voting, which frankly is ridiculous.” See GOP, page 4
PHOTO BY DOUG STROUD
Judge dismisses 2nd lawsuit challenging the PW Digital Gateway data center corridor By Cher Muzyk
Times Staff Writer
different judges in separate hearings held just a few weeks apart. Prince William County Circuit Court Judge James A. Willett summarily dismissed on Thursday, May 25, a lawsuit filed by the Oak Valley Homeowners’ Association and 10 individual community residents when he ruled from the bench that the “plaintiffs have acted prematurely” in bringing their lawsuit.
Opponents of the Prince William Digital Gateway were dealt another blow last week when a judge dismissed a second lawsuit challenging the data center development. Both lawsuits were filed by residents late last year in an effort to stop the 2,139-acre data center corridor proposed just north of the Manassas National Battlefield Park from moving forward. Both suffered the same fate: dismissals from two See SPRAWL, page 2
Expected revenue from ‘The Rose’ boosts Dumfries new budget, page 4
Prince William libraries adds foreign language films, page 7
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