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SIGNS, OH SO MANY SIGNS
Man fatally shot in North Stafford TRACY BELL
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Supervisors to form committee to study signs in county TRACY BELL
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he Stafford County Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday by a vote of 4-3 to form a subcommittee to form a sign committee with members of the Stafford County Planning Commission. The commission would address sign-ordinance regulations within the county.
The signs discussed include subdivision signs, model home signs, temporary sale signs, school signs, political signs, historic signs and others. But some board members weren’t thrilled to serve on the committee or how the sign situation has been handled. Supervisor Jack Cavalier, RGriffis-Widewater, said that he is concerned about how small
26-year-old North Stafford man was shot Sunday evening in the 300 block of Madison Court in Stafford. Jorge Leonardo Melo, 26, of Vista Woods Road, later died of his wounds, police say. The shooting occurred about 6:30 p.m., according to M.C. Morris Moncure, public information officer for the Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office. Patrol units arrived JORGE MELO on the scene and found a wounded man lying on the ground. CPR was administered to the victim until emergency medical services arrived and transported him to a local hospital, where he succumbed to his injury, according to Moncure. Witnesses reported hearing multiple gunshots and saw two men, wearing all black, fleeing the area on foot. A black SUV also left the area after the incident. A perimeter was established and dogs attempted to find a track. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office at 540-658-4400. Stafford Crime Solvers is sharing resources with this investigation. Crime doesn’t pay – but Crime Solvers does. Contact Crime Solvers (where callers may remain anonymous) at 540-659-2020 or TEXT “Stafford” + your tip to CRIMES (274637).
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Stafford man charged with murder TRACY BELL
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Stafford man was charged with murder Monday after he was involved in a physical altercation with another man who died of his injuries. Clint Alan Hill, 41, was arrested just before 1 a.m. Monday at his residence in the 2000 block of Green
Tree Road in Stafford. He and Bryan George Hinckley, 35, of Lake View Drive in Stafford, were involved in a fight two days earlier outside an apartment building in the 1900 block of Green Tree Road about 7 p.m. When patrol units arrived at the apartment complex, Hinckley was
unconscious, according to M.C. Morris Moncure, public information officer for the Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office. He was transported to a local hospital where he died of his injuries. Hill was charged with murder, incarcerated at the Rappahannock Regional Jail and held on no bond.
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