A board tasked with reviewing appeals from Amherst County property owners during the county’s 2020 countywide real estate reassessment recently presented a report to county officials on its activities.
An Amherst County Sheriff s deputy was honored Tuesday for her actions during a September 2017 traffic stop that resulted in her shooting a Monroe man in a scuffle where another officer was shot and injured.Â
Investigator Erin Napier, the officer honored with the Medal of Valor, said she was surprised and honored to receive the medal. During a late-night stop at the Monroe Post Office on Sept. 22, 2017, she shot Trevor Dawson Ewers in the shoulder when Ewers quickly pulled out a gun while being removed from the vehicle by former Sheriff s Lt. Jason Meador.Â
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Ewers, who was intoxicated, stepped out of the vehicle and retrieved a handgun from his pocket, immediately causing a struggle with Meador, and the officer was shot. Meador recovered from the shot and his since left the department. Napier â whose surname at the time of the shooting was Karajankovich â and Meador both testified at Ewers 2019 trial in Amherst Circuit Court about the negative physical and me
An Amherst County Sheriff s deputy was honored Tuesday for her actions during a September 2017 traffic stop that resulted in her shooting a Monroe man in a scuffle where another officer was shot and injured.Â
Investigator Erin Napier, the officer honored with the Medal of Valor, said she was surprised and honored to receive the medal. During a late-night stop at the Monroe Post Office on Sept. 22, 2017, she shot Trevor Dawson Ewers in the shoulder when Ewers quickly pulled out a gun while being removed from the vehicle by former Sheriff s Lt. Jason Meador.Â
Ewers
Ewers, who was intoxicated, stepped out of the vehicle and retrieved a handgun from his pocket, immediately causing a struggle with Meador, and the officer was shot. Meador recovered from the shot and his since left the department. Napier â whose surname at the time of the shooting was Karajankovich â and Meador both testified at Ewers 2019 trial in Amherst Circuit Court about the negative physical and me
After a year of emergency suspension during the coronavirus pandemic, jury trials are on the brink of restarting in Amherst Circuit Court.
The first jury trial in more than a year, an aggravated malicious wounding case, is set to bring jurors into the courtroom the morning of April 14.
Jury trials were suspended at the beginning of the pandemic by the Virginia Supreme Court, which in the summer required all jurisdictions to develop and submit a plan for conducting those trials safely in the future. Once the plans were approved, the courts could restart trials at their discretion.
Most circuit courts in the Lynchburg area delayed jury trials despite getting the green light from the state in December and January. Judges in Lynchburg and the counties of Amherst, Bedford and Campbell â which all are in the 24th Judicial Circuit â signed orders that cited climbing COVID-19 infection rates in postponing jury trials.