Virginia State Police

The Army second lieutenant is suing the officers for violating his constitutional rights. Brett Hall, from NBC affiliate WAVY-TV 10, reports.

Police responded to a shooting to find one person dead and eight injured. Then, police responded to a second shooting to find another victim dead in an unrelated incident.

A 35-year-old man was killed Saturday after his car was hit by another vehicle fleeing from the police

Maryland State Police and the Montgomery County Department of Police are searching Wednesday for a reckless driver who was being pursued by police in Virginia, crashed into cars in Maryland and then came to a final crash on Interstate 495, police said.

Authorities said Officer Dominic Winum had been with Stanley Police since 2016 before he was killed during a traffic stop. As seen on NBC Washington on Feb. 27, 2021.

A Virginia sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a man armed with a gun Thursday morning.  The Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office responded to a welfare check on a man who lives in the 12000 block of Horseshoe Drive about 9:40 a.m. When deputies arrived, they found Donald Francis Hairston, 44, in an agitated state, according to the sheriff’s office. Hairston...

Virginia State Police are phasing out their familiar silver-gray-and-blue police sedans

A family of five, including three children, was found fatally shot in their Culpeper, Virginia, home in what appears to be a murder-suicide.

A Northern Virginia teenager was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences in in the deaths of a young couple shot to death Feb. 8 on a rural Virginia highway hours from home, police said. Mohamed A. Aly pleaded guilty in Halifax County Thursday to the first-degree murders of 18-year-old Ayanna Maertens-Griffin and 21-year-old Joel Bianda. Bianda had agreed to drive…

The driver of a stolen car suffered life-threatening injuries Friday after speeding 90 mph on an exit ramp then crashing during a police chase, Virginia State Police say. The driver, a 29-year-old Connecticut man, is expected to be charged, police say. Virginia State Police say a trooper tried to pull over a stolen Audi Q5 SUV about 10:05 p.m. on…

A prosecutor has opted against filing criminal charges against a Virginia State Police trooper who played to the camera as he forcefully removed a Black motorist from his car during a traffic stop.

Two prisoners who fled from a Virginia juvenile facility through a hole in a fence have been arrested in Michigan nearly two weeks after they escaped, authorities say. Jabar A. Taylor, 20, and Rashad E. Williams, 18, escaped from Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center in the Richmond area July 13, the state Department of Juvenile Justice said. U.S. Marshals with…

Virginia State Police trooper is under investigation for a violent traffic stop of a Black driver caught on camera. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

Virginia State Police are conducting an investigation of a police stop on the Capital Beltway last year after video of the incident showed a trooper telling a Black driver “you’re going to get your a– whooped.”  Police say they launched a criminal investigation after video was published on social media this week of the traffic stop in April 2019....

A Virginia State Trooper is under investigation after video surfaced of a traffic stop in which he appeared to use force on a Black driver. News4’s Justin Finch reports.

Virginia State Police are searching for two young men convicted of violent crimes after they attacked a guard at a juvenile facility and escaped through a hole in a fence, officials say.  Jabar A. Taylor, 20, and Rashad E. Williams, 18, escaped from Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center in the Richmond area early Monday, the state Department of Juvenile Justice…

A Virginia State trooper assigned to Fairfax County has resigned after he claimed in a text message that he intentionally coughed on a driver to spread the coronavirus. A separate criminal investigation into the trooper also is underway.  Trooper Jacob P. Gooch was placed on administrative leave in early May and later resigned, state police told News4 on Monday. ...

Virginia State Police shot a man after an attempted traffic stop started a police chase. Virginia State Police tried to stop a 2017 Ford Escape that had been reported stolen on eastbound Route 50 about 7:30 p.m. Thursday, but the driver refused to stop, police said. The Escape reached speeds of 100 mph and rammed two state police vehicles during…

Virginia police shot a man after a chase on Thursday evening. News4’s Justin Finch reports the latest.

A driver was shot after leading police on a pursuit and crashing, Virginia State Police said. News4’s Cory Smith reports.