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The fifth video in the Dustin Griffin shooting, the one that Augusta County Sheriff Donald Smith said Friday night would not be released “due to its graphic nature,” apparently doesn’t capture the moment a deputy shot Griffin in the back of the head.
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Almost everything about what happened the night of Dec. 17 in the shooting death of Dustin Griffin, 42, has been answered, with a Friday night media dump by the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office.
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A 21-year-old from Rockingham County sustained serious injuries in a crash Thursday night on Stone Spring Road.
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The family of an Augusta County man shot and killed by two sheriff’s deputies on Dec. 17 is “seeking transparency, accuracy, and basic human dignity” in the investigation into what happened that night.
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A bicyclist attempting to cross Interstate 95 this afternoon was struck by a tractor trailer, and the individual received serious injuries.
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Dustin Griffin was shot five times in the torso by one Augusta County sheriff’s deputy, before a second deputy who had been wrestling with Griffin during the service of an arrest warrant on the night of Dec. 17 shot Griffin in the head.
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We’re just supposed to take the word of Tim Martin, the Commonwealth’s Attorney in Augusta County, that the actions of two Augusta County sheriff’s deputies who shot and killed Dustin Griffin on the night of Dec. 17 were “not only justified, but entirely necessary.”
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Local media has largely ignored the slow walk investigation into the Dec. 17 shooting of an Augusta County man by a sheriff’s deputy, but, man, give ‘em a local jewelry-store heist to write about for clicks, and cue the feeding frenzy.
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A crash on Christmas on Interstate 495 in Fairfax County killed a 15-year-old juvenile and a 75-year-old woman.
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