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Shooting of Abby Zwerner. On January 6, 2023, American school teacher Abby Zwerner was seriously injured when a six-year-old male student shot her while she was teaching in her classroom at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia. The boy had brought from home, in his backpack, a 9mm semi-automatic pistol belonging to his mother.
Michael Joseph Swango (born James Michael Swango, [ 1] October 21, 1954) is an American serial killer and physician who is estimated to have been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues in the United States and Zimbabwe, although he admitted to causing only four deaths.
Newport News Police Department (Virginia) Officers arrived at the home of Henry Berry for abusing the 911 system. Following a struggle, Pearson shot Berry in the back. A second officer was acquitted of manslaughter. [23] Pearson was later sentenced to six years in prison. [24] 3 December 2019: Eric J. DeValkenaere 20 November 2021
Three men were found dead in a Newport News home early Tuesday morning. Police responded to the zero block of Stallings Court in the Epes neighborhood following a report of shots fired at 12:55 a ...
Date apprehended. February 4, 1984. Syvasky Lafayette Poyner (April 7, 1956 – March 18, 1993) was an American rapist and spree killer who killed four women and a teenage girl during a series of armed robberies in Hampton, Virginia in 1984. Convicted of multiple counts of capital murder and condemned to death, Poyner was executed in 1993.
List of people executed in Virginia. Between 1982 and 2017, a total of 113 people were executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia. All were convicted of capital murder; all but one were male. Between 1982 and 1990, all executions were carried out at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond. After the prison closed in 1991, all subsequent ...
Police respond to a shooting at Richneck Elementary School, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023 in Newport News, Va. A shooting at a Virginia elementary school sent a teacher to the hospital and ended with “an ...
GNIS feature ID. 1497043 [4] Website. nnva.gov. Newport News ( / ˌnuːpɔːrt -, - pərt -/) [6] is an independent city in southeastern Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 186,247. [5] Located in the Hampton Roads region, it is the fifth-most populous city in Virginia and 140th-most populous city in the United ...