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Murders double in a Va. county and a community scrambles for answers
Washington Post ^ | 12/30/2017 | Victoria St. Martin

Posted on 12/30/2016 11:52:12 AM PST by VanShuyten

... There have been 22 homicides in the Prince William so far in 2016, compared to 10 last year. In many communities, the prospect of 22 murders in a year might not seem like a cause for concern. This year the District has so far tallied 134 slayings and neighboring Fairfax County so far had 18 homicides. But the numbers in Prince William County are the highest in the county since authorities began tracking homicides in 1975. The next most deadly year was 2006, when 16 people were slain. ... Experts attribute the increase to a range of factors, including the prevalence of handguns and lethality of those weapons. They also cite gang activity and domestic violence.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; banglist; crime; gangs; guncontrol; homicides; illegals; murders; princewilliamco; princewilliamcounty; princewilliamscounty; va2016; virginia
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"...the prevalence of handguns and lethality of those weapons." This is Virginia, and neither of those has changed over the last year.

"They also cite gang activity and domestic violence."

Here's a list of those homicides. See if you can see a pattern that the WaPo can't. (List doesn't include Dec. yet, but it's easy to see the trend.)

http://www.insidenova.com/news/crime_police/prince-william-county-homicides/article_8c08f22c-2b39-11e6-aac5-4fc47d607fd6.html

Jan. 13-Three members of the MS-13 were charged with the robbery and murder of a man... the victim as 29-year-old Oscar Rene Andrade. Two 17-year-old boys and 18-year-old David Jonathan Pineda Argueta were charged in the case

Feb. 27-Ronald Hamilton, 32, is accused of shooting and killing his wife, 29-year-old Crystal Hamilton, at their home, and then shooting three officers who responded to her 911 call for help, killing Officer Ashley Guindon

March 18-The victim was identified as Javiel Rosado Santiago, 21, of Manassas. A 16-year-old boy, and two men, Carlos Fernando Lazo Rivera, 19, and Alexander Esau Flores Aguilar, 21

April 29-The body of 36-year-old Lizeth Yadira Lopez was found in a drainage ditch ..., Ronald Francis Dorsey Jr., a resident of a a private program for at-risk young adults, where Lopez worked as a counselor was charged in her death and the death of a second counselor, Erica Janelle Hickson

May 3-Jamal Hakeem Ahmad Joseph Bryant, 21, of Woodbridge, was shot and killed ... outside Dumfries. Detectives quickly identified Derick Dwabena Prempeh...

May4-Ali Jafar Alaiwi,, ; Henry Carabantes,; Malik Chiles, and a 17-year-old Woodbridge boy are all charged.... The victim was identified as Ishmael Mansaray of Dale City

May 12-A family member found 14-year-old Luis Erick Coca-Crespo dead... Police say the boy, an eighth grader at Mary G. Porter Traditional School, had been beaten with an object. The suspect, Colins Rodrigo Rodriguez Rodriguez, was later charged as an adult ...

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July 30-Police said Manuel Ernesto Gaitan, 35, of Chantilly, forced his way into an and stabbed a 35-year-old Jose Juan Portillo-Argueta, and a 27-year-old woman. Portillo-Arugeta died of his injuries; the woman survived.

Sept.23-Juan Manuel Polanco, 27, of Woodbridge, was charged with murder... Police said Polanco shot and killed 23-year-old Francin Jose Solano Campo,

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Jose Garcia Flores, 40, of Woodbridge was shot and killed

Edwin Ivan Chicas suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to an area hospital where he died of his injuries. Nine people were later charged in his shooting, which police said was gang-related.

Guillermo Estaban Urrego, 30, of Manassas, fatally stabbed Samuel Enrique Godoy-Figueroa, 27 ,of Manassas, multiple times...

Cordrey Douglas Jackson, 24, of Dumfries, was involved in an argument with Roberta Edlina Brandon...

I've left out a few, but you get the idea

1 posted on 12/30/2016 11:52:12 AM PST by VanShuyten
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To: VanShuyten

Ferguson effect the most likely cause.


2 posted on 12/30/2016 11:54:08 AM PST by marktwain
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To: VanShuyten

Show me the pictures of the victims and murderers and let’s see if they have any commonality.


3 posted on 12/30/2016 11:54:44 AM PST by D Rider
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To: VanShuyten

Prince William is heavily black.


4 posted on 12/30/2016 11:55:42 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: VanShuyten

Seems like the perps are mainly BLM candidates and some of them hard working Latinos we need so bad...


5 posted on 12/30/2016 11:59:12 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: VanShuyten

http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/23/news/virginia-concealed-carry-gun-permits/


6 posted on 12/30/2016 12:05:43 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: VanShuyten

Illegal aliens.

Deport, deport and deport some more.


7 posted on 12/30/2016 12:11:06 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Woodbridge is heavily Hispanic and has a lot of folks who look like they take meth. The black population used to be military and middle class government but it got a lot of trash in the 90s. The nickname is Hoodrige now. I had relatives there but we stopped going years ago. They had to meet us elsewhere.


8 posted on 12/30/2016 12:11:47 PM PST by stellaluna
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To: SauronOfMordor

PWC has been ground zero of the illegal immigration fight for quite some time. The proliferation of Salvadoreans, and that which always comes with them (MS-13), is likely the cause, as it is everywhere else they show up.

It’s like we imported 30 million cannibals and are confused as to why half-eaten corpses keep showing up all over the place.


9 posted on 12/30/2016 12:11:56 PM PST by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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To: VanShuyten

Memphis is 1 large city inside Shelby CO, TN, they have had over 225 murders with 1 day before the end of the year, the county has had like 4. Memphis is predominately black, and the majority of the killings were black on black.

Compared to Chi town’s over 600 that is peanuts. Haven’t seen NYC’s count yet.


10 posted on 12/30/2016 12:11:57 PM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump, not the hrc commie witch.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

It is also heavily Hispanic with lots of El Salvadorans, meaning lots of MS-13. Don’t know many law enforcement that live in the county, especially if they have kids. Once the Hispanics got a foothold things started going downhill. If you look at property values you can see that PWC has lower values than other counties in Northern VA. Manassas and Woodbridge (known as the Hoodbridge) are especially sketchy.


11 posted on 12/30/2016 12:14:07 PM PST by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: smokingfrog

That reciprocity curtailment was shot down before it could take effect.

From the VA State Police:

“Virginia Concealed Handgun Permit Reciprocity and Recognition
As of July 1, 2016, pursuant to Virginia Code Section 18.2-308.014, the holder of a valid concealed handgun or concealed weapon permit or license issued by another state1 may carry a concealed handgun in Virginia provided all of the below conditions are met:

The holder of such permit or license is at least 21 years of age.

The permit or license holder carries a valid photo-identification issued by a government agency of any state or by the U.S. Department of Defense or U.S. Department of State.

The holder displays the permit or license and the government issued photo-identification upon demand by a law-enforcement officer.

The permit or license holder has not previously had a Virginia concealed handgun permit revoked.

Although the law requires Virginia to grant recognition to all states that issue permits, those states may not authorize Virginia permit holders to possess a firearm in their state. “


12 posted on 12/30/2016 12:16:02 PM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: smokingfrog

Nah, that was cancelled very quickly, once the VCDL(Virginia Citizens Defense League) launched into the fight.


13 posted on 12/30/2016 12:17:08 PM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: marktwain

Seems like a nice little mix of Mexican, AA and jihadi-types with the occasional domestic dispute thrown in.


14 posted on 12/30/2016 12:20:30 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: stellaluna
Woodbridge is heavily Hispanic and has a lot of folks who look like they take meth. The black population used to be military and middle class government but it got a lot of trash in the 90s. The nickname is Hoodrige now. I had relatives there but we stopped going years ago. They had to meet us elsewhere.

One day, my Son-in-Law and I made the mistake of driving a U-Haul truck down Richmond Highway (US-1) through Woodbridge instead of taking I-95. At every single traffic light, we were accosted by dozens of illegals thinking we were looking for day work. Luckily we'd locked the rear door, because they kept trying to slide it open so they could hop in.

PW County is ground zero for the illegals in Northern Virginia.

15 posted on 12/30/2016 12:21:43 PM PST by COBOL2Java (1 Tim 2:1-3)
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To: stellaluna

day work = day workers


16 posted on 12/30/2016 12:22:44 PM PST by COBOL2Java (1 Tim 2:1-3)
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To: SauronOfMordor

It’s a mystery then.


17 posted on 12/30/2016 12:28:24 PM PST by aquila48
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To: VanShuyten
The best way to answer a problem is to first investigate the most obvious possibility. That would be BLM thugs being emboldened + a police being second guessed whenever they enter a challenged neighborhood. Thugs feeling entitiled + police having too much scrutiny and too many guidelines to get the job done = more murders. You think?

And then there's another factor in some places. The invasion from the south has created gangs competing for drugs and prostitution dominance. It all adds up to a perfect storm.

18 posted on 12/30/2016 12:32:35 PM PST by grania
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To: VanShuyten

I was going to say, “Has there been any Demographic changes” but I guess the question is answered...


19 posted on 12/30/2016 12:33:27 PM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: GailA

My good Brother-in-law lives in Bartlett and keeps us informed of the death rate in Memphis.
When I get an E-mail that says...”Well, another one bites the dust!” I know what he is talking about.


20 posted on 12/30/2016 12:39:02 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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