
Ken Plum: Gun violence epidemic
Three people were shot to death in Herndon last week — a mother and her two children, in an incident the police termed “horrific.”

Three people were shot to death in Herndon last week — a mother and her two children, in an incident the police termed “horrific.”

The Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Appomattox Field Office is investigating a fatal shooting involving Virginia State Police personnel that occurred Wednesday evening in Amherst County.

Kevin Alexander Linares DeGiron, 20, of Charlottesville, has been charged in connection with the May 16 robbery at the Waynesboro Neighborhood Market.

A federal jury convicted a Norfolk man last week on charges of participating in a conspiracy to manufacture and distribute fentanyl, acetyl-fentanyl and heroin in the Hampton Roads region.

Deonte Laron Harris, 31, was released from the hospital and arrested by UVA PD on the outstanding warrants.

Virginia State Police has identified the man killed in an officer-involved shooting in Augusta County on Friday as Jeffrey J. Bruce, 48, of Grottoes.

A Newport News man is in custody in connection with a shooting into an occupied vehicle that apparently stemmed from a dispute in a parking lot in the Fishersville area Thursday night.

George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes, died because America is being overrun with militarized cops

While public attention has been focused on the COVID-19 pandemic many missed the epidemic surge in gun violence that has been occurring in this country.

Virginia Democrats won majorities in the House of Delegates and State Senate in 2019 on a platform heavy on gun violence prevention measures. What we’ve seen in the two legislative sessions since buttresses the case that elections matter.
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