Former Fairfax Co. officer Wesley Shifflett made his first court appearance on charges related to the shooting death of a man ...

A Virginia Court of Appeals has blocked former Fairfax County police officer Wesley Shifflett's attempt to get his job back.

After nearly 12 hours of deliberation, a jury found a former Fairfax County Police Department (FCPD) sergeant not guilty of ...

Former Fairfax County Police Officer Wesley Shifflett's attorney spoke exclusively with FOX 5 just one week after a jury ...

Victim’s mother Melissa Johnson at the Fairfax NAACP Rally for Justice [File photo 2023] Photo by Mercia Hobson .

An officer was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter in Virginia after he was accused of killing an unarmed man who police said shoplifted sunglasses. The officer was, however, convicted on a charge ...

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Prosecutors argued that Shifflett, then a sergeant with Fairfax County Police, acted recklessly when he shot and killed an ...

A jury on Friday acquitted a former police officer in Virginia of involuntary manslaughter after he fatally shot a ...

But the jury did convict the former police sergeant, Wesley Shifflett, of reckless handling of a firearm in connection with the shooting. Prosecutors argued that Shifflett, then a sergeant with ...