Tag: Alexandria crime

Police investigate Old Town shooting

By Catherine Kane | [email protected] The Alexandria Police Department is investigating a shooting incident that took place on the evening of July 8. Police were called...

‘Werewolf ’ killer released from mental hospital

By Catherine Kane | [email protected] The man who brutally stabbed an Old Town store manager to death has been released from the mental health facility...

APD arrests shooting suspect

By Olivia Anderson | [email protected] The Alexandria Police Department made an arrest in connection with a fatal shooting that occurred on Monday, according to a...

Our View: Ready for summer

The recent school tragedies – both the local stabbing death of an Alexandria City High School student and school massacre in Uvalde, Texas –...

Community reacts to death at Bradlee Shopping Center

By Olivia Anderson | [email protected] After a fatal stabbing incident on May 24 at Bradlee Shopping Center that left an Alexandria City High School student...

Your Views: Shooting raises questions

To the editor: I am writing in response to the article titled “Three arrested in 7-Eleven shooting,” published in your newspaper on Jan. 10, 2022....

Child injured in crash outside Jefferson Houston

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] A driver struck and injured a child outside of Jefferson Houston PreK-8 IB School on Tuesday. According to a news release...

APD investigates first homicide of the year

By Olivia Anderson | [email protected] The Alexandria Police Department is investigating the first homicide of the year, which took place on Wednesday in the West End,...

Police officer arrested for domestic assault

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] Richard Haynes, 30, an Alexandria police officer, was arrested for domestic assault and battery on March 16, according to a...

B.J.’s stabbing suspect indicted for murder

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] Rakibul Islam Fakir, 33, of Alexandria, was indicted for first degree murder on Monday for his involvement in a stabbing...