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He Was Playing Video Games When Bullets Flew. FBI Wants Help Finding His Killers
Justice still hasn't caught up to whoever killed Kingston Campbell. In Virginia, more than three years after the 6-year-old was fatally shot while playing video games in his bedroom in Lynchburg, the FBI is making a renewed push to solve the case, offering up to $30,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. Kingston Campbell was killed while playing video games in his bed. Lynchburg PD/GoFundMe photo Kingston was home on the evening of May 2, 2023, when multiple people believed to be involved in local gang violence opened fire in the area of the …
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Rhode Island Shooter Made It 500 Miles Before Marshals Found 'Miracle Baby' In Virginia
Tyquan Johnson made hundreds of miles from home. Then his run came to an end in Virginia. The manhunt for a shooting suspect ended in Virginia when a 19-year-old Rhode Island man was tracked down by federal investigators after two people were shot in Newport, authorities announced. Johnson was taken into custody around 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 29, by members of the US Marshals Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force in Newport News. Investigators with the Newport Police Department say Johnson fled south following a shooting on Sunday, July 19, that left two people injured. Off…
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Search Enters Third Day For Missing Potomac River Swimmer Near Sandy Landing
More than two days after one swimmer made it safely to shore and another disappeared beneath the river's powerful current, Maryland rescue crews were back on the water Thursday morning, July 30, hoping to bring the search to an end. The latest operation resumed around daybreak on Thursday near Spotzbergen Rock, just south of Sandy Landing in Montgomery County, where an approximately 25-year-old man vanished around 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 28. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue's Swift Water Rescue Team returned with boats equipped with sonar and search dogs after crews spent hours combing …
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Virginia Man Shot After Attempting To Disarm Officer During Hunt, Police Say
Nehemia Fuentes Banegas had already stabbed himself. Then he vanished into the woods. The bizarre chain of events ended Tuesday morning, July 28, when Fairfax County police say the 26-year-old Annandale man suddenly burst from thick brush, grabbed an officer's handgun and was shot during the struggle. It all began around 9:57 a.m. at a home in the 7000 block of Sutter Lane, where officers responded to a domestic dispute involving Fuentes Banegas. By the time officers arrived, investigators said Fuentes Banegas had armed himself with two knives, accidentally stabbed himself with one an…
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$20B Overhaul Planned At Dulles Airport: Here's What To Expect
Dulles International Airport is getting a makeover unlike anything in its history. Virginia's busiest international airport is set for a sweeping transformation under a new $20 billion-plus plan announced Wednesday, July 29, that promises new terminals, expanded flight capacity, faster security, improved baggage handling and the eventual retirement of some of the airport's oldest facilities. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority joined President Donald Trump, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and United Airlines executives at the White House to unveil the partnership, which offic…
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: Bodycam Shows Final Moments Before Maryland Man Dies In Police Custody
The moments leading up to a Maryland man's death while in police custody are now public. The Maryland Attorney General's Office on Wednesday, July 29, released body-worn camera footage from Greenbelt police officers who responded after 40-year-old Michael MacDougall crashed off the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Prince George's County earlier this month. The video, released by the Independent Investigations Division, captures officers arriving after US Park Police had already detained and handcuffed MacDougall following the crash. In the video, MacDougall can be seen lying in the grass no…
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Murder Fugitive Fled Maryland For California. Nearly Six Years Later, It Caught Up To Him
Raymond Garfield Campbell III made it all the way to California. He should have kept going. Nearly six years after a Hagerstown man was gunned down in broad daylight, the fugitive who fled across the country after the killing has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars. Raymond Garfield Campbell III received two consecutive life sentences plus another 35 years on Tuesday, July 28, after a judge sentenced him for the October 2020 murder of 40-year-old Daynard Johnson, the Washington County State's Attorney's Office announced Wednesday. Prosecutors said Campbell followed Joh…
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Maryland Mom Says She's 'Ready To
Fight
' After Life-Changing Diagnosis
The people who know Maegan Showalter all seem to tell the same story: she's the one who shows up. The Maryland wife, mother and friend has spent years celebrating others, lending a hand without being asked, and helping carry people through life's hardest moments. Now, after an aggressive breast cancer diagnosis turned her own life upside down, an entire community is trying to return the favor. Showalter received the news from her doctors in June. Since then, the Mechanicsville mother has begun weekly chemotherapy and immunotherapy, with multiple surgeries still ahead. The trea…
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Teen's Hair Slashed During Attack On Elementary School Basketball Court: Police
A robbery is one thing. Having your hair slashed with a knife is another. A 17-year-old boy was cut on the hand and had his hair sliced during an early morning robbery on the basketball courts at an elementary school, according to Prince William County Police. The attack happened around 10:08 a.m. on Sunday, July 26, at King Elementary School in the Woodbridge area. Police said the teen was on the courts when three acquaintances approached him. What happened next was unexpected. Investigators said two of the group assaulted and robbed the victim. During the attack, one of the suspect…
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Maryland Drug Bust Reveals One Tiny Detail That Triggered Machine Gun Charges, Sheriff Says
One search warrant. Two handguns. More than $10,000 in cash. That's what deputies say they uncovered Wednesday morning during a drug investigation in Maryland that ended with a Lexington Park man facing a slate of felony charges. The St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office executed search warrants on July 29 at a home in the 21000 block of Mary Margaret Court in Lexington Park, where investigators say they found suspected cocaine, suspected crack cocaine, drug paraphernalia, two firearms and bundles of cash. The suspect, identified as 45-year-old Ofori Holmes, was arrested after deputies allege…
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Car Thieves Thwarted By Technology After Maryland Theft Spree, Police Say
Their biggest mistake wasn't stealing from unlocked cars. It was taking electronics detectives could trace. In Maryland, what began as a string of overnight thefts from unlocked vehicles in Bethesda ended inside a Gaithersburg Motel 6, where Montgomery County detectives say they found two suspects, stolen property and firearms tied to a separate case. The thefts happened during the early morning hours of July 14 in neighborhoods along Broad Brook Drive, Enfield Road, Page Avenue and Locust Hill Road. Surveillance cameras captured two men walking from vehicle to vehicle, pulling on door ha…
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Married DC National Guard Major Built Double Life With Fake Divorce, Feds Say
One fake divorce. Two weddings to the same woman. And a stack of bogus government documents to keep the whole thing going. Collin L. Welch, a 40-year-old DC National Guard major from Arlington, pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington to an immigration fraud scheme that prosecutors say stretched from Mongolia to Virginia and was partly funded with $54,000 in stolen government money. Welch was already married when he began a relationship with a Mongolian woman in 2019 while posted to the US Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, according to court documents. So he created a divorce decree. The docum…
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