Fairfax County Police

News4’s Tony Perkins spoke to Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis about the new charges in the Fairfax County double murder case, traveling safe during the holidays and the police department offering exchange safety zones. 

Police in Fairfax County are touting two years of using license plate reader cameras as a crime fighting tool. News4’s Mauricio Casillas reports.

Federal investigators cleared the two U.S. Park Police officers who were charged after the 2017 police shooting of accountant Bijan Ghaisar after a chase on the George Washington Parkway.

News4’s Jummy Olabanji spoke to Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis about the seven teens charged in a crime spree, the arrests made in the daytime street racing in Tysons and how license plate readers make for smarter policing. 

Disturbing police body camera video shows a Virginia woman charging a Fairfax County police officer with a knife moments before he shot and killed her. Just after 10 a.m. Sept. 16, a 14-year veteran knocked on 33-year-old Sydney Wilson’s apartment door to perform a welfare check in Reston. As the officer identified himself, Wilson slammed the door shut, video shows….

Police body camera video shows the chaotic moments a Fairfax County officer was attacked at an apartment in Reston, Virginia, before shooting a woman armed with a knife. Nesws4’s Paul Wagner has the disturbing video.

Timothy Johnson’s mother expressed thanks for the verdict after a former police officer was convicted of reckless use of a firearm in the death of her son.

A jury acquitted a former Fairfax County police officer of involuntary manslaughter but found him guilty of reckless use of a firearm in the fatal shooting of a shoplifting suspect outside Tysons Corner Center. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

A former Fairfax County police sergeant who shot and killed an unarmed shoplifting suspect outside a mall in Northern Virginia last year was acquitted Friday evening of involuntary manslaughter. The jury convicted Wesley Shifflett of reckless handling of a firearm after the death of Timothy Johnson outside Tysons Corner Center. Melissa Johnson, Timothy Johnson’s mother, thanked the prosecution for...

Stephen Smerk confessed to killing 37-year-old Robin Lawrence at her home in Springfield. Her 2-year-old daughter who was at the home at the time was unharmed, but left alone for days.

The jury in the trial for a fatal police shooting outside Tysons Corner Center was sent home after being shown body camera footage they were not supposed to see.

The jury in the trial for a fatal police shooting outside Tysons Corner Center was sent home after being shown body camera footage they were not supposed to see. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

A former Fairfax County police sergeant who fatally shot an unarmed suspected shoplifter testified in his manslaughter trial Tuesday.

A former Fairfax County police sergeant who fatally shot an unarmed suspected shoplifter testified in his manslaughter trial Tuesday. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

The trial of Wesley Shifflett, a former Fairfax County police officer, continues today after he was accused of shooting and killing an unarmed man accused of shoplifting in February 2023. Opening arguments could start today after jury selection is complete. News4’s Joseph Olmo reports.  

A police officer and one other person are hurt after a shooting in Reston, Virginia, on Monday morning involving Fairfax County police, authorities say.

A police officer and one other person are hurt after a shooting in Reston, Virginia, on Monday morning involving Fairfax County police, authorities say. Here’s initial info.

News4’s Tony Perkins spoke to Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis about the Fairfax County after-school contractor who was arrested for unlawfully filming children, their summer crime prevention initiative and 9/11 remembrance events in the area. 

A man who worked for a contractor that provided afterschool programming at Fairfax County elementary schools faces 24 felonies related to unlawfully filming girls inside two schools. The suspect, 25-year-old Arturo Elmore-Adon, is already in custody for alleged crimes against a minor. Now, he’s charged with several more felonies. “Holding a really disturbing and sick man accountable for his actions…

A man who worked for a contractor that provided afterschool programming at Fairfax County elementary schools faces 24 felonies related to unlawfully filming girls between the ages of 6 and 8 inside two schools. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder has the story.