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Two murders yesterday in Newport News. First shooting happened on the interstate in the Downtown area, a 24 y/o man was shot and crashed his car and died hours later. The second, a shooting outside of some apartments in the Denbigh area left a man dead. That puts them at 28 for the year, breaking the tie with Hampton and now has the second most murders in the state behind Richmond, which is at 44.
For comparison of prior years, these are previous totals through the entirety of August:
2022- 135
2021- 128
2020- 185
2019- 136
2018- 116
2017- 138
2016- 133
2015- 136
2014- 85
A 10-year-old girl was wounded in a shooting that saw her, her grandmother, and her sister shot- has died. The assassin was their neighbor, who then turned the gun on himself (not in the count given).
Victor Nieves, 34, had reportedly been binging on cocaine and over-the-counter drugs before he raced downstairs and opened fire, fatally shooting Fairbanks in the head, wounding her granddaughters, 10 and 12, and killing the family dog and himself, according to a Mass.Live interview with Nieves’ girlfriend.
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