A Mount Vernon man will serve more than three decades in prison after being convicted of murder for a 2022 fatal shooting in Woodlawn.
Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David Oblon sentenced Kyjuan Trott-McLean, 45, this morning (Friday) to 40 years in prison for second-degree murder and an additional three years for using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
One man is dead and another is battling life-threatening injuries after an early-morning shooting in Woodlawn on Thursday (April 3).
The Fairfax County Police Department responded to the Mallard Courts Apartments in the 8400 block of Madge Lane around 1:31 a.m. for a report of shots fired.
A crash in Centreville that killed a teenager last Thursday (Feb. 27) was the result of a drunk driver, Fairfax County police say.
Officers responded at 10:28 p.m. that night to the 5600 block of Pleasant Valley Road for the two-vehicle crash.
Two teenagers are facing criminal charges after reportedly brandishing a gun at Mount Vernon Woods Elementary School in Woodlawn yesterday (Thursday).
Officers responded to the school at 4015 Fielding Street at 2:53 p.m. after “several” students reported seeing two men on the property, one of whom displayed a gun, the Fairfax County Police Department says.
Local law enforcement is still on the lookout for one suspected serial burglar, despite arresting two others in recent days.
The Fairfax County Police Department is seeking help from the community to identify a man believed to have perpetrated two burglaries and two larcenies in nine days.
An Alexandria man believed to have shot another man in Woodlawn yesterday (Wednesday) has been arrested.
According to the Fairfax County Police Department, Dominique Witaker, 36, was engaged in a verbal argument with another man — who was known to him — when he allegedly shot the other man in the lower body.
An apparent dispute between a customer and the employees of a nightclub in Woodlawn took a dangerous turn last weekend, police say.
Officers were dispatched to Club One in Woodlawn Shopping Center (8786 Richmond Highway) at 12:58 a.m. on Sunday (Oct. 13) after a caller reported a man brandishing a gun, according to the police scanner.
Mount Vernon Woods Park is getting an arena for skateboarding.
The Fairfax County Park Authority will discuss and present the design concept for the proposed skate park at a virtual meeting this Thursday (Sept. 26) at 7 p.m.
The Fairfax County Police Department is seeking a suspect possibly connected to three robberies in which the man used pepper spray against store employees.
Police said the latest incident occurred on Tuesday in the Rose Hill neighborhood.
Fairfax County police have made an arrest in one of two fatal pedestrian crashes that occured on Richmond Highway this past weekend.
Kelechi Uzodinma, 61, of Woodbridge was arrested on Sunday (Feb. 18) after allegedly hitting a pedestrian in the Richmond Highway and Brevard Court intersection in Mount Vernon’s Woodlawn neighborhood around 10:40 p.m., the Fairfax County Police Department reported today.
