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NJ Bus Monitor Charged In Death Of 6-Year-Old With Special Needs: Prosecutor
A New Jersey bus monitor has been arrested following the death of a 6-year-old girl who died during a bus ride this week, authorities said.
Amanda Davila, 27, of New Brunswick, has been charged with second-degree Manslaughter, and second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, after fastening the harness of a child's wheelchair too tight, blocking her airway, Somerset County Prosecutor John P. McDonald said.
An investigation found that Davila, who was assigned as the school bus monitor, had fastened the girl's 4-point harness that secures her to her wheelchair too "to become tight a…
DUI Fredericksburg Driver Had 8-Year-Old In Back Seat: Sheriff
A Fredericksburg woman was arrested for driving drunk with a suspended license with a child in the car, police said.
Tinita Lee, 33, has been charged with DUI second offense in five years with a child in the vehicle, felony child neglect, obstruction of justice, and driving revoked, the Stafford County Sheriff's Office said.
The charges stem from an incident around 8:20 p.m. Tuesday, July 18, in which drivers spotted a Ford pickup speeding, swerving, and driving on the shoulder near Richmond Highway and Hospital Center Boulevard, authorities said.
Detective K.A. Lawrence found th…
Man Killed Passing Gun Around In VA Was Seeking Better Life In America
Support is surging for the family of a 21-year-old man who died when a gun accidentally fired while he and his friends were passing it around in Northern Virginia.
Reynaldo J. Villalobos Hernandez had moved to the U.S. in pursuit of his dreams, according to his aunt, Maria Hernandez, who launched a GoFundMe.
"Reynaldo was only 21 years old, he was a good, happy, hard-working, sociable, positive boy full of life and dreams and goals to achieve," Hernandez writes. "That is why a year and a half ago he decided to travel to the United States, leaving his parents and siblings to help them and h…
Wrongway Driver, 27, Killed In Fairfax Crash Was Working Toward Better Life, Best Friend Says
"We're destined for greatness."
That's what Mahdere Fassil would tell her best friend, McKenzie Wilson, in the hard times.
Even when things felt hopeless. Even with obstacles in the way.
Mahdere was convinced better things were on the horizon.
Mahdere, 27, was identified as the wrong-way driver who was killed in a crash on Jeff Todd Way Tuesday, July 18, near Telegraph Road in Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County.
She nearly hit two other vehicles before hitting the Pathfinder, police said, and was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.
The driver of the Nissan Pathfinder, a …
