Child dies after drowning in a pool in Fairfax

By Veronica Canales
May 25, 2025 | 9:11 AM

A child is dead after drowning in a pool in Fairfax, Virginia, Saturday morning.

Police said first responders responded to a call in the 5300 block of Harrow Lane near Ashleigh Road around 10:30 a.m. in the Braddock area.

When they arrived on the scene, they found a child who had drowned in a residential pool.

The child, who was transported to a hospital, later died.

Police are investigating the drowning.

Aa map of the area where the drowning took place is below.

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Virginia man charged with impersonating a police officer at a police station

By Ian Crawford
August 22, 2026 | 4:17 PM

Police in Prince William County, Virginia, have arrested a man who they say was trying to pass himself off as a cop. And he picked the one place his story was least likely to fly: at a police station. Officers said the man, later identified as Matthew Bailey Thompson, 45, of Manassas, showed up at the gate to a secure parking lot at their central police station on Davis Ford Road in Woodbridge around 7 p.m. Wednesday. He tried to get into the lot by telling them that he was an officer, too.

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