Crime

Dr. Cerina Fairfax was shot and killed by her husband, former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, in what police have labeled a murder-suicide.

Drug overdoses are down but the Charlottesville police are focused on continuing to reduce the flow of drugs into the community and the criminal enterprise that surrounds it.

Police are still searching for a 24-year-old suspect.

Officers responded to a report of shots fired near the 600 block of Lockesley Terrace.

The juvenile was arrested in connection to the shooting at the 1800 block of Solomon Road on Dec. 29, 2024.

Kevin Desjuan Anderson is wanted on two counts of malicious wounding, two counts of a use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon.

A heavy police presence around Monticello Ave. on Friday afternoon was due to a search for a suspect.

A man and a woman were shot early Friday morning, suffering non-life threatening injuries, according to CPD.

A Honduran woman has been arrested and charged with witness tampering in connection with her boyfriend’s sexual exploitation of a minor case.

Fairfax served as lieutenant governor under Ralph Northam.