Incidents

At approximately 8:00 p.m., Lynchburg Police responded to the Super 8 Motel on Candlers Mountain Road to serve an arrest warrant on 32-year-old Francisco J. Hernandez Jr., of Newport News. Hernandez barricaded himself inside his room with a hostage. After a 3 hour standoff Hernandez was shot by Lynchburg Police.

Virginia State Police hunted Christopher J. Martin while driving a Toyota Tacoma on Route 58 near Glendale Road in Carroll County at 12:53 p.m. They pursued him, then a local officer and Virginia State Trooper shot and killed him.

Travis Taurean Martin was pulled over by Roanoke Police. Police say Martin exited his vehicle with a weapon and advanced towards police, who then shot him.

Record is sealed (7/24/2024).

Hanover County Sheriff's deputy P. C. (Peter) Chapman violated the rights of Deshawn Eugene Taylor at a traffic stop, then engaged in reverse prosecution of his victim, according to a PACER entry for Deshawn Taylor v Commonwealth of Virginia dated May 2024.

Police responded to a call on the 1900 block of Cedar St. for "a disturbance with an armed person" by shooting and killing 20-year-old Kenneth Sharp, who had been asleep in his car prior to the attack by police. The perpetrator was Todd Wesley Hall, a white officer. He was not criminally charged.

On December 17, 2023 at roughly 22:33, "Officer G. G. Rathore and Officer B. M. Hager arrived at the Ramada Inn located at 21 Signal Knob Drive in reference to a disorderly female who was said to be behind of the front desk without permission, throwing cans of soda in the lobby area of the business, and running through the hallways carrying a fire extinguisher."

At some point, Office Rathore encountered Melissa Renee Tompkins in the rear parking lot of the hotel, where she allegedly "grabbed his baton and used it to hit him in the head". Rathore shot Tompkins multiple times.

Tompkins was taken to Winchester Medical Center where she died of her injuries. Rathore was treated at Shenandoah Memorial Hospital and released.

Deputy Andrew Simonetti was placed on administrative leave after tackling a 58-year-old man outside a storage facility.

Former trooper files suit against supervisors, alleging whistleblower retribution for filing misconduct complaints against trooper Fairley M. Blevins.

While off-duty, Christopher Newport University Chief of Police Daniel F. Woloszynowski, hit 58-year-old Shaine Deeleeoan Henderson, a pedestrian, with his vehicle and killed him.

Nearly eight months after Wesley G. Shifflett and James F. Sadler chased, harassed, cornered, and then murdered Timothy "Tim" McCree Johnson, a 37-year-old Black man leaving the mall, a special grand jury in Fairfax County indicted one of them for felony crimes.

Shifflett, a Fairfax County Police officer since 2016 up until April of 2023, will face a class-five felony charge of involuntary manslaughter and a second charge citing reckless handling of firearms. The special grand jury was the second to convene to consider prosecuting the February 22, 2023 murder of Mr. Johnson. The first grand jury failed to issue a true bill. Sadler, the other Fairfax County officer who shot Tim Johnson and was reportedly not in uniform at the time of the killing, was never charged with a crime.

Sgt. William Mikolay was accused of assaulting a man after a chase and was charged in Albemarle County with malicious wounding and misdemeanor assault and battery.

Off-duty officer arrested after DUI crash

Officer Babor was charged with felonies alleging he clocked into work at Suffolk Police while actually working a second job.

An officer shot 34-year-old Taylor Lee Drew on July 22, 2023 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Drew was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Sheriff Scott Jenkins indicted on federal bribery charges

Juette Renalds shot and killed Daniel Scott Meadows.