Press Release — Shooting Incident

WARREN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

200 SKYLINE VISTA DRIVE · FRONT ROYAL, VIRGINIA 22630

Mark A. But­ler, Sher­iff

PRESS RELEASE – SHOOTING INCIDENT

Inves­ti­ga­tion into sin­gle vic­tim shoot­ing inci­dent 05/01/2023.

Front Roy­al, VA – On May 1st, 2023, the War­ren Coun­ty Sher­if­f’s Office received a report from an out-of-state res­i­dent con­cern­ing the alleged sex­u­al abuse against two minor chil­dren, involv­ing a rel­a­tive of theirs. The Sheriff’s Office was also informed that the father of one vic­tim was enroute to con­front the alleged abuser, with con­cerns raised about the poten­tial involve­ment of firearms. Based on the poten­tial for esca­lat­ing vio­lence with weapons, Sher­iff Deputies were dis­patched to the sus­pec­t’s address.

War­ren Coun­ty deputies arrived at the scene near the 4000 block of Remount Road, where they dis­cov­ered a soli­tary vehi­cle parked by the prop­er­ty’s edge. A cur­so­ry search of the prop­er­ty led to the dis­cov­ery of an injured male with head wounds con­sis­tent with a gun­shot. Emer­gency med­ical ser­vices were imme­di­ate­ly sum­moned, and deputies attempt­ed life-sav­ing mea­sures. The injured indi­vid­ual was trans­port­ed to War­ren Memo­r­i­al Hos­pi­tal, where he was pro­nounced dead.

The War­ren Coun­ty Sher­if­f’s Office is active­ly inves­ti­gat­ing this case as a death inci­dent. Evi­dence sug­gest this to be an iso­lat­ed occur­rence, and at present, inves­ti­ga­tors sus­pect  the death like­ly to be a self-inflict­ed response to the sex­u­al abuse alle­ga­tions, with no evi­dence indi­cat­ing oth­er­wise. Due to the nature of the ini­tial report of abuse involv­ing minors and the ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion, no fur­ther details will be released.  If any­one has any rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion about this case, please con­tact Inves­ti­ga­tor Clark McDaniel at 540–635-7100 ext. 3.

Approved for released on May 2, 2023, by Lieu­tenant M. Glavis, CID

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