Amy Ashworth, Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney, has announced the successful prosecution of Daquan Artis Tinker arising from the Dec. 19, 2019, attempted aggravated murder, robbery, and malicious wounding of two victims in Woodbridge, Va.

On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 1:15AM, Prince William County Police officers responded to the Dale Forest Apartments in the 14300 block of Wrangler Ln. in Woodbridge (22192) to investigate an injured person call. Officers located the victim, a 43-year-old man, inside the apartment suffering from a laceration to the upper body. Fire and rescue personnel pronounced the victim dead at the scene.

County police investigate malicious wounding, indecent exposure, commercial burglaries.

A Prince William County jury found Devlon Crew-Hamilton guilty of one count of second-degree murder and one count of use of a firearm in commission of a felony nn September 27, 2023.

On September 27, the suspect, identified as Jeffrey Donelle HAMPTON, 34,of Woodbridge turned himself in to police without incident.

The investigation revealed that Fairfax County police contacted Prince William County police after their agency received information from police in Anne Arundel County, MD regarding a citizen residing in Laurel who reported recent suspicious and concerning online postings on Instagram from an individual later identified as the accused. In the postings, vague threats of violence were made, some of which included images of a location later determined to be Park Valley Church in Haymarket.

While the ask could vary between money for charity or an investment opportunity or limited access event and even love, it is always a scam. Remember, never share your personal information with or send money to someone you don’t know and have only communicated with online, no matter how supposedly famous they are.

Police said the driver of a 2014 Nissan Altima was traveling southbound on Smoketown Rd. at a high rate of speed when the driver lost control of the vehicle, crossed into the northbound lanes, and left the roadway before striking multiple trees and catching fire.