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One Of Two Driver Involved In Deadly Virginia Hit-Run Crash Arrested: State Police One Of Two Driver Involved In Deadly Virginia Hit-Run Crash Arrested: State Police
One Of Two Driver Involved In Deadly Virginia Hit-Run Crash Arrested: State Police One of two drivers involved in a deadly hit-and-run crash in Fauquier County last week has been identified and apprehended, according to Virginia State Police.  On Wednesday, Nov. 13, state police investigators located and arrested Catlett resident Dennis Dunning, 54, who was found at his home in the 8000 block of Burwell Road in Fauquier, where he was taken into custody without incident. Late in the afternoon on Friday, Nov. 8, police say that 73-year-old Garland Heddings was walking along Elk Road to a mailbox when he was struck by an SUV that was heading north, then by a second vehi…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Death Of 19-Year-Old Struck By Train In Virginia Investigated As Suicide: Police Death Of 19-Year-Old Struck By Train In Virginia Investigated As Suicide: Police
Death Of 19-Year-Old Struck By Train In Virginia Investigated As Suicide: Police The death of a 19-year-old man who was fatally struck by a freight train on Monday, Oct. 9 in Prince William County, is being probed as a possible suicide, authorities said. Emilio Maurisio Rivas, of Catlett, was walking within the tracks as the train was approaching Gardner Manor Place and Hillcrest Farm Lane in Gainesville just before 3 p.m., county police said. The train engineer sounded the train horn to warn Rivas, who continued to walk within the tracks before being struck by the train. Fire and rescue personnel responded to the scene where Rivas was pronounced dead.  …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Two Dead In I-495 Crash Weren't Wearing Seatbelts: Police Two Dead In I-495 Crash Weren't Wearing Seatbelts: Police
Two Dead In I-495 Crash Weren't Wearing Seatbelts: Police Two unbelted men died and a woman was in critical condition following a head-on crash on Interstate 495 on Tuesday, May 17, authorities said. A Mazda 3 collided with a Buick Encore near the Chain Bridge Road exit in Fairfax, causing the Buick to burst into flames after the impact, Virginia State Police said. The Buick driver, Patrick Mullins, 32, of Catlett, Va., and Kaan Karabekir, 28, of Bethesda, Md., who was behind the wheel of the Mazda, died at the scene. Neither were wearing a seatbelt.  Paramedics rushed a woman who was in the Buick to Inova Fairfax Hospital with lif…

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by Josh Lanier