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Prince William outs officers names, patrol areas despite being cleared of wrongdoing
Updated at December 30, 2020 - Uriah Kiser
Five Prince William County police officers involved in a shooting outside Dumfries did nothing wrong, the county’s Commonwealth Attorney determined.
The officers were dispatched to the Four Seasons, a gated retirement community just off Route 234 at 7:15 p.m. December 10, after a woman reported her husband Kurtis Kay Frevert, 79, was armed with a gun and was threatening suicide.
With the information that the man fled his home, officers initiated a search, calling for assistance from a helicopter crew from neighboring Fairfax County, which located the man in some nearby woods.
In the aftermath of a deadly police shooting in the Four Seasons community last week, a Prince William County supervisor wants to take advantage of police reform measures passed by the Virginia General Assembly this year to appoint a police civilian oversight committee.
The new law grants localities âclear authorityâ to establish civilian committees to investigate and issue findings on complaints against police, as well as officer use-of-force cases, Occoquan District Supervisor Kenny Boddye said in a news release.
The legislation was among many police reform bills finalized by state lawmakers last month, prompted by the May death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the protests that followed. The bills touch every aspect of the stateâs criminal justice system, from traffic stops to prison sentences.