A 28-year-old Virginia State Police trooper died on Friday night when his patrol car was struck at an intersection while he was responding to a call for assistance.
Adam M. Bowen, a resident of Warsaw, Va., was pronounced dead at the scene on Route 3 (Kings Highway) near the intersection with Madison Drive.
According to the police report, Bowen's Ford Crown Victoria patrol car was passing through the intersection westbound when it collided with a Hyundai Elantra. The patrol car left the road and struck a traffic light pole with enough impact to split the car in half. The front end continued into a parking lot and hit three vehicles.
The driver and passenger in the Hyundai Elantra that Bowen hit were transported to Mary Washington Hospital and treated for minor injuries.
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Very sad.
Appomattox shootings suspect's trial set for June 2012APPOMATTOX, VA -- A June 11, 2012, trial date has been set for a man accused of killing eight people in Appomattox.
Prosecutor Darrel Puckett said Friday that Circuit Judge Joel C. Cunningham allotted up to three weeks for Christopher Speight's capital murder trial. Speight will be tried by jury.
Speight is charged with three counts of capital murder.
He was arrested after an overnight manhunt near the home he shared with his sister, her husband and their two children. Those family members, two neighbors, their teenage daughter and a teenage boy were killed in the shootings.
A judge in December declared Speight mentally fit to stand trial after reviewing a report from Central State Hospital. The former security guard remains in jail pending trial.
Virginia State Police On the Look-Out for Missing VehicleFrom Virginia State Police:
State and local law enforcement are on the look out for a missing Ford Expedition belonging to the Virginia State Police. The black 2001 Ford Expedition was discovered missing from the parking lot of the state police Appomattox Division headquarters late Wednesday (June 8, 2011).
The headquarters is located off of Route 460 in Appomattox.
The Ford Expedition is a spare vehicle equipped with a blue light attached to the passenger-side sun visor and one blue LED light in the rear window. Its Virginia license plate is XPX 2447.
Upon the vehicle's disappearance, state police immediately initiated an investigation into the vehicle's whereabouts. Law enforcement statewide and throughout the region have also been notified of the vehicle's disappearance.
Anyone who might recognize the vehicle or know anything about its disappearance is asked to please contact the Virginia State Police toll-free at 1-800-552-0962 or (434) 352-7128.
Posted: Apr 26, 2011 11:23 AM EDT
Updated: Apr 26, 2011 3:10 PM EDTComputer Outage Hampers Virginia State Police Virginia state troopers are having a tough time filing reports and accessing their e-mails after a state computer failure last week. It's the latest problem for Virginia's troubled IT agency.The outage started last Thursday morning and affects Virginia State Police email, calendars and online folders. Those folders contain templates for more than 100 reports troopers and investigators use on a regular basis.The problem has hampered internal and external email traffic. A state police spokeswoman says although the outage has not affected troopers' ability to respond to emergencies, she says it has crippled online communication.The state police computer system is maintained by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) and by subcontractor Northrop Grumman. VITA says technicians have been working nonstop through the holiday weekend to try to resolve the issue.At this point experts believe the outage was caused by a hardware failure. A VITA spokeswoman says that the state police servers are old and are not designed to handle the years and years of emails currently stored there. VITA is in the process of planning the best way to upgrade that equipment.This outage is the latest in a long string of problems for the tech agency which has come under close and frequent scrutiny from state legislators. Last year, a massive failure affecting DMV computers disrupted driver's license operations for more than a week and caused major headaches at other state offices across the commonwealth.A VITA spokeswoman tells us that technicians expect to have the hardware problem fixed and state police computers back to normal by Wednesday or Thursday.
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A 28-year-old Virginia State Police trooper died on Friday night when his patrol car was struck at an intersection while he was responding to a call for assistance.
