Crime in the DMV

Starting Friday, September 19, all students, staff, and guests attending home high school football games at a Spotsylvania County Public Schools facility will be required to pass through a weapons detection system before entering the stadium.

Two teenage boys were injured in a shooting Thursday afternoon near KIPP DC Public Charter School, prompting a lockdown and cancellation of the school’s back-to-school night.

A congressional hearing is putting city leaders in the hot seat Thursday as lawmakers hear testimony on juvenile crime and policing policies in the nation’s capital. 

A daycare worker at Vinci School Alexandria North was fired after allegedly tying a 21-month-old child to a chair with a blanket, according to a report from the Virginia Department of Social Services.

A Maryland man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for fatally shooting his girlfriend’s husband inside a southeast D.C. apartment in 2022.

House lawmakers are set to vote Tuesday on a controversial bill that would allow 14-year-olds in Washington, D.C. to be charged as adults.

Prince George’s County Police are searching for a woman accused of fatally stabbing her grandmother and critically injuring another relative inside a Fort Washington home.

Prince George’s County Police are investigating a homicide after a woman was found dead and a man critically injured inside a Fort Washington home.

President Donald Trump says he’s ready to declare a national emergency and federalize Washington, D.C. after Mayor Muriel Bowser said she does not expect police to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Fairfax County Police say a man was shot and killed early Monday morning in what investigators believe was a targeted attack.

Nicholis Dorsey was convicted of sexually abusing five women at various metro stops, and had been convicted of sexual assault three times before

D.C.’s public safety communications center says that the issues with emergency calls not being answered have been resolved.

Montgomery County Police have released video showing the arrest of a man accused of impersonating a police officer and driving a van outfitted to look like a law enforcement vehicle.

President Trump’s emergency crime order for the District of Columbia has officially expired, but there may be big changes to D.C. laws if Republicans in Congress get their way.