Park Police

Seven members of Congress are asking U.S. Attorney Gen. Merrick Garland to reopen the investigation into the U.S. Park Police shooting of Bijan Ghaisar, a driver killed in Fairfax County in 2017.  Lawmakers cite statements made in a civil suit as the reason the case should get another look. They argue Garland has already reversed decisions made by the...

State and local prosecutors in Virginia are asking the Justice Department to reconsider its decision not to prosecute two U.S. Park Police officers who fatally shot a motorist after a stop-and-go chase in 2017

A federal judge has agreed to hear evidence in the deadly shooting of Bijan Ghaisar at the hands of U.S. Park Police. The hearing is set for August, and it will look at whether the two officers who shot Ghaisar are entitled to immunity. News4’s Paul Wagner has the story.

The pursuit began in Alexandria and ended after a crash in Southeast D.C. Cory Smith reports.

A man fired shots at security guards at a U.S. Secret Service facility in Maryland Thursday evening, according to the Maryland U.S. attorney’s office. Jeremiah Peter Watson, 22, of Hyattsville pulled up to a gated entry at the facility in Beltsville, got out of the car and aggressively approached the security guard, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. He...

Bijan Ghaisar’s mother is still looking for answers about why officers shot her son after a chase in 2017.

A judge has set a November trial date for a civil lawsuit in the 2017 fatal shooting by U.S. Park Police of a Northern Virginia motorist, but government lawyers say the trial should be delayed because the officers involved in the shooting aren’t talking about what happened

A new prosecutor in Virginia says he is investigating the death of a motorist killed by U.S. Park Police after a chase

Fairfax County prosecutors are now pursuing criminal charges against the two U.S. Park Police officers who shot and killed Bijan Ghaisar. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

Park Police believe the same is responsible for sexually assaulting two women in Rock Creek Park. Shomari Stone reports.

Clara Barton Parkway has reopened Wednesday morning following a crash.

A man shot a woman during an argument at her apartment in Takoma Park, Maryland, police say. News4’s Chris Gordon reports the woman met the man on social media.

A meeting between a Takoma Park woman and a man she met online ended in gunfire.

More than four years after 8-year-old Relisha Rudd disappeared from D.C., the search for the child continues, and investigators have a new idea of how she may look.

A lawyer who burned himself to death in a grisly protest against ecological destruction was a nationally known gay rights advocate and lead attorney in a famous case involving transgender murder victim Brandon Teena.

A well-known attorney died Saturday morning after setting himself on fire in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park in a reported protest against pollution.

A U.S. Park Police officer shot and killed his wife and himself with his work-issued weapon, Charles County police said.

Two members of Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton and Don Beyer, are frustrated that Park Police canceled a meeting that was scheduled after an officer shot and killed 25-year-old Bijan Gaiser. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

The FBI took the lead in an investigation of a shooting by a U.S. Park Police officer in northern Virginia that critically wounded a driver.

The Lincoln Memorial has been vandalized again, and this time a U.S. Park Police officer caught the vandal in the act, officials say.