Peter Dujardin
Senior Reporter at Daily Press (Newport News, VA)
Journalist covering courts and criminal justice for the Daily Press and Virginian-Pilot, in Newport News and Norfolk, VA. [email protected], 757-247-4749
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2 weeks ago |
pilotonline.com | Peter Dujardin
A Norfolk home invasion and rape case has resulted in three defendants being sentenced to a combined 186 years behind bars. During the attack that began in Virginia Beach and ended in Norfolk, prosecutors say, one of the 18-year-old assailants forced a man to watch his own mother being raped at gunpoint. Then the other teen, also 18, raped the woman in a different bedroom, followed by the first assailant coming in and sexually assaulting her a second time.
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3 weeks ago |
pilotonline.com | Peter Dujardin
A jury in Newport News Circuit Court last week found a 32-year-old man guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting of his neighbor eight years ago. Jurors found that Donnell Anthony Howard shot and killed 27-year-old Eric Charles Blackshear Jr., on Aug. 17, 2017 with a 12-gauge shotgun. The men began arguing about 10 p.m. outside the Admiral Pointe Apartments, in the 7400 block of River Road near Newport News Shipbuilding.
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3 weeks ago |
pilotonline.com | Peter Dujardin
NEWPORT NEWS — Imani Parrish’s 10-year-old son had a strange feeling when his mom wasn’t responding to his calls and texts in the afternoon of April 30. “He felt that something wasn’t right,” said the boy’s grandmother, Nichole Parrish. “They normally FaceTimed together when he got home from school.”But Nichole had a key to her daughter’s apartment on Antrim Drive, off Adams and Dresden drives in Midtown Newport News. So she enlisted her longtime partner, Mavion Willis, to check on her.
In strangulation cases, assailants can leave DNA behind. It can later be used against them in court.
3 weeks ago |
pilotonline.com | Peter Dujardin
When someone is sexually assaulted and goes to a hospital for treatment, a forensic nurse examiner offers what’s called a “physical evidence recovery kit.”The nurse will attempt to collect any biological material left on the victim’s body. That can be tested for DNA and later used in court. Such testing programs have been utilized for more than 30 years in Virginia. But there’s a new kind of state evidence kit — to be used in strangulation cases.
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1 month ago |
pilotonline.com | Peter Dujardin
The days between Memorial Day and Labor Day are often said to be the “100 deadliest days” on the roads for teenagers. But the National Road Safety Foundation — a New York-based non-profit — and other organizations are pushing to make them the 100 safest. From 2012–2021, the organization said that more than 7,300 teenagers were killed on the roadways in the summer months, accounting for nearly half the total for that entire 10-year stretch.
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