Fairfax County Police

One man died and a second man has life-threatening injuries after they argued and opened fire at each other in the Woodlawn area of Fairfax County, off Route 1, police say. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

Three teenagers broke into a gun store in Fairfax County, Virginia, early Monday. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder has surveillance video of the brazen burglary.

Two teenagers were arrested after a burglary left a gun store in Fairfax County with the front doors blown off its hinges and glass on the ground, according to police.

At 1 a.m. on Monday, a burglary took place at Dominion Defense in Fairfax County in Virginia, according to police. Video shows the door shattered on the ground and off its hinges inside the store. Two people are now in custody, according to police. News4’s Joseph Olmo reports. 

A Northern Virginia community is coming together after being hit by hate. Over the weekend, members of a youth group at Burke Presbyterian Church made a sign that reads, “You are loved” days after racist graffiti appeared on fencing feet from the house of worship. “You can’t just let silence or a shrug be your only response…” said Becca...

A 16-year-old was arrested after being suspected accused of going on a rampage destroying property and spray painting racist and antisemitic graffiti. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin commuted the prison sentence of a former Fairfax County officer who shot and killed an unarmed man suspected of shoplifting at a mall in Tysons in 2023.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin commuted the prison sentence of a former Fairfax County officer who shot and killed an unarmed man suspected of shoplifting at a mall in Tysons in 2023. He called the sentence “unjust,” as the ex-officer’s lawyer told News4 the commutation is “a tremendous relief.”

A man who opened fire on Fairfax County police after a high-speed chase will spend the next six years in prison for his crime. The hours long pursuit that started in Arlington when Ricardo Singleton displayed a gun at the courthouse. He raced away in a car, police said. Hours later he crashed into other vehicles at the busy intersection of Route 50...

A former Fairfax County police sergeant who shot and killed an unarmed shoplifting suspect outside a mall in Northern Virginia in 2023 was sentenced to three years in prison. News4’s Julie Carey tells what happened in court.

A former Fairfax County police sergeant who shot and killed an unarmed shoplifting suspect outside a mall in Northern Virginia in 2023 was sentenced to three years imprisonment.

News4’s Jummy Olabanji spoke to Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis about the 16-year-old charged with stabbing an officer, Connect Fairfax and the child exploitation travels operation that involves teachers. 

A Fairfax County Police officer in the Fair Oaks district was stabbed Monday afternoon, police said. The officer was responding to a call about a suspicious person on the 12800 block of Fair Lakes Parkway in Fair Lakes. The officer was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police. An adult male suspect was arrested on the scene,…

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.