Police shot and killed 61-year-old Paul G. Behan Jr. in the stairwell of his apartment building at 5101 Maris Avenue. Police were responding to a call from a coworker that Behan was armed and suicidal.
Police said Behan had a weapon with him in the stairwell and was shot by officers after he made a threatening action toward police, though interim Alexandria Police Chief Raul Pedroso would not elaborate more on the incident pending investigation.
With an eye on becoming Virginia’s next lieutenant governor, Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney says he’ll be spending a lot of time in and around Alexandria before next year’s election day.
With just five months left in office, the 43-year-old two-term mayor of Virginia’s capital city says that his statewide strategy to “dominate the landscape” with his presence has worked in the past, and will work again.
Ahead of the start of the school year, the Virginia Department of Education has released a draft of new guidelines for restricting student cell phone use, though for the most part this aligns with the pre-existing cellphone policy in Alexandria schools.
Alexandria City Public Schools approved regulations governing cell phone use in schools last year, effective for the 2023-2024 school year.
Alexandria’s popular Tons of Trucks event is returning next month to Chinquapin Park (3210 King Street).
The annual event brings all of the big city vehicles out to the park for attendees to see and explore. Tickets were previously $5 per person, but this year the event is free.
More details have been released regarding an alleged sexual battery last month that put a Lyft driver behind bars without bond.
The victim told police that she was drunk when Lyft driver Ahmad Reshad Nasseri picked her up in his red Toyota Highlander outside a D.C. restaurant on Friday, July 19, according to a recently released search warrant affidavit.
Good Friday morning, Alexandria!
⛈️ Today’s weather: Expect a mostly sunny day reaching a high near 91, accompanied by a calm wind transitioning to a southern breeze at 5 to 8 mph in the morning. The night will bring scattered showers and thunderstorms before 4am and again after 5am, with a mostly cloudy sky and a low temperature around 72. The southern wind will remain at about 9 mph, and there will be a 30% chance of precipitation.
The City of Alexandria could be moving forward with regulations on short-term rental properties like Airbnb this fall, but a staff report on the topic revealed interesting statistics on who rents in Alexandria.
There are around 725 short term rentals operating in Alexandria. There are 460 registered with the city and another 265 are probably unregistered units — either not registered with the city or granted an exemption. That’s 0.88% of the available housing stock, which the report said isn’t enough to affect housing prices.
Here’s a roundup of all the events, live music, and entertainment happening around Alexandria this weekend, Friday, August 16, through Sunday, August 18, 2024.
Are you organizing an event? Submit events to ALXnow.
The Alexandria Police Department identified 61-year-old Paul G. Behan, Jr. as the man who was fatally shot by an officer on Monday night (Aug. 12).
Behan was shot and killed by a police officer after a 35 minute standoff in the stairwell of his apartment building at 5101 Maris Avenue. One of Behan’s coworkers called 911 at around 10:45 p.m. to warn that he’d threatened to shoot himself, and relayed to police that Behan owned at least two guns.
Who is a 3-year-old, black and white puppy that will melt your heart?
Meet Ava, an adorable girl who is up for adoption at the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria!
New federal funding could be coming to Alexandria, particularly to programs boosting affordable housing and pre-k programs for low-income families.
The funding is in the Senate’s draft government funding bills, which just passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
