A man has been taken to the hospital after being shot in the Arlington Mill neighborhood.
The shooting was reported around 7:30 p.m. at an apartment complex on the 5100 block of 8th Road S. Several people called 911 to report gunshots, according to scanner traffic.
Overly aggressive tactics combined with an apparent lack of mental health responders may, according to policing experts, have contributed to a standoff on Columbia Pike escalating into a fatal officer-involved shooting.
In interviews with ARLnow, two public safety experts questioned a series of decisions leading up to officers’ final confrontation with 33-year-old Shawn Valn, who was armed with a knife and had barricaded himself in a back room of a convenience store on May 8.
Three teens are facing charges after allegedly robbing another teen of his shoes at knifepoint near Pentagon City.
It happened around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday on the 900 block of 15th Street S., on the border of Aurora Highlands and Pentagon City. The victim was outside when the three approached and demanded his shoes, police said. One of them pulled out a knife and threatened him before the group ran off with the shoes.
Arlington County police will be keeping a close eye on drivers at two spots in Arlington Ridge and Rosslyn next week.
ACPD has scheduled a pair of “high-visibility traffic education and enforcement activations” for next Tuesday, Nov. 10, as part of the region-wide fall Street Smart campaign.
A late-night brawl spilled into Columbia Pike outside a hookah lounge early Sunday, a night after a man was hit with a glass bottle inside a business on the same block.
Video of Sunday’s fight, posted (below) by local public safety watcher Dave Statter, shows a group of people grappling in the street near S. Walter Reed Drive as a crowd watches from the sidewalk outside the lounge.
A man has been found guilty of attacking a woman at a restroom in Pentagon City following a series of assaults in Reston last year.
Koby Berry, 28, was found guilty of assault and battery following a trial on Oct. 26 in Arlington County General District Court.
County leaders this week were criticized both for going too far, and not going far enough, in limiting the use of automated license-plate readers in the county.
Most who spoke on the topic at a town-hall meeting on Monday shared the view of Eric Lotke, who said county officials should permanently ban their use by local law enforcement.
A group of teenagers in a park near Washington-Liberty High School reportedly attacked a peer during school hours earlier this week.
The assault, which a local parent says follows other troubling incidents at Oak Grove Park, took place around 2 p.m. on Monday. It involved a group of teens trying to steal a boy’s shoes and jacket, police spokesperson Ashley Savage told ARLnow.
County leaders appear to be in an uphill battle trying to address community anger over a May police-involved shooting that killed a 33-year-old man along Columbia Pike.
Body-worn footage released last Friday was a “heavily edited, narrated theater piece designed to manufacture a narrative,” said Tia Alfred, one of several who voiced ongoing dissatisfaction at a town-hall meeting hosted by the County Board yesterday (Monday).
Arlington County police released footage today (Friday) of the fatal officer-involved shooting that took place on Columbia Pike in May.
Videos from officers’ body-worn cameras, released at a press conference this afternoon following repeated orders from the Arlington County Board, depict the hours-long standoff, confrontation and shooting death of 33-year-old Shawn Valn inside a 7-Eleven convenience store on the evening of May 8.
The Optimist Club of Arlington honored local law enforcement, courts and jail personnel at its annual “Respect for Law” luncheon this week.
“It means a lot to the public-safety community to have the recognition from the community,” Police Chief Andy Penn said at the event, held at Washington Golf & Country Club.
Police are investigating more gunfire on S. Lowell Street in Green Valley, less than a day after a shooting on the same block left a man injured.
Officers found evidence of shots fired in the 2400 block of S. Lowell Street tonight (Thursday), along with damage to several parked cars and a home, the Arlington County Police Department said in a post on X. No injuries had been reported as of 9:52 p.m., police said.
