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I hate reading stories like this. I don't usually carry at home in the daytime, but you never know what might happen.
TFred
http://www2.starexponent.com/cse/news/local/crime/article/hunt_continues_for_man_wanted_in_connection_with_home_invasion/41994/
Hunt continues for man wanted in connection with home invasion
Nate Delesline III, ndelesline@starexponent.com , (540) 825-0771 ext. 110
Published: August 25, 2009
BRANDY STATION — One man is in custody, and the hunt continues for a second suspect after a violent home invasion Monday afternoon in the 21000 block of Mount Pony Road.
Authorities are seeking Gregory Lee Wallace, 27, whose last known address is in the 7000 block of Third Street in Remington. He is described as a black male, 6 feet, 3 inches tall and about 215 pounds.
Sgt. Jim Fox of the Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office said Wallace, who also goes by the name Michael Lee Ketterman, may be armed. Fox advised area residents to “use normal precautions and make sure their houses are locked.”
Wallace was last seen wearing a dark jacket or tan shirt, blue jeans and white shoes.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, Monday’s home invasion occurred around 1:40 p.m.; an unidentified male victim was treated and released at an area hospital for unspecified injuries.
About 10 minutes later, the two suspects were involved in a car crash with a Culpeper sheriff’s deputy on Brandy Road, just east of the U.S. 29 intersection with Alanthus Road.
Fox said Darryl Wallace, 18, of Washington, D.C., was detained at the scene and taken to headquarters for questioning; charges are pending against him. Police and witnesses say Gregory Wallace fled on foot across the highway.
Fox said the suspects are related but was unsure of their exact relationship.
Around the time of the crash, emergency dispatches indicated “shots fired” in the area of Bentley Lane off Auburn Road in Brandy Station. However, Fox clarified earlier news reports by saying the shots were not connected to this incident and were not of a criminal nature.
Meanwhile, northbound traffic on U.S. 29 near Brandy Station was at a standstill for several miles as Culpeper and Fauquier county sheriff’s deputies, along with state troopers, tracking dogs, a Fairfax police helicopter and a police airplane circled overhead.
By Monday night, authorities were still searching west of U.S. 29 in fields surrounding the Brandy Station carnival area.
“They have shut down the perimeter search, but we are continuing to do saturation patrols,” Fox said, adding that the search would likely continue overnight and into today.
Fox said the motive for the home invasion is still under investigation.
Witness reaction
Jimmy Howell, owner of Jimmy’s Auto Repair & Trailer supply, and employee Charlie Gochenour were working when they saw the crash, just down the street on Brandy Road.
“I was in the trailer welding and I saw them,” Gochenour said. “Cop cars were everywhere.”
The men said none of the vehicles appeared to be travelling faster than 25 mph before the crash occurred.
Daryl Wallace was taken into custody after the white Cadillac sedan he was in collided with a Dodge Magnum driven by Culpeper Deputy Christopher Tash.
After the crash, as both men watched, Gochenour said it appeared one of the suspects pulled a television and a sawed-off shotgun from the sedan. He said one of the men fled just a few feet from the shop, running between the business and a home.
“We had an eye on him the whole time,” Howell said, adding that he grabbed two large wrenches from the shop for protection in case the suspect approached.
The home invasion, chase, traffic backup, aerial search and investigation on the ground caused at least two other traffic accidents.
Star-Exponent correspondent Greg VanNostrand reports that a state trooper was involved in a three-vehicle crash while investigating the incident. The trooper’s unmarked sedan was rear-ended on U.S. 29, causing his vehicle to hit a third car.
And a Dominion Virginia bucket truck had to be pulled out of the median on U.S. 29 after the vehicle left the road for unknown reasons.
Criminal record
Records show Monday was not Gregory Wallace’s first run-in with law. Last month, town police charged him with burglary and malicious wounding following an incident in the 300 block of Duke Street. He was also charged in a 2008 incident where police say he fired a gun near Culpeper Head Start school.
I hate reading stories like this. I don't usually carry at home in the daytime, but you never know what might happen.
TFred
http://www2.starexponent.com/cse/news/local/crime/article/hunt_continues_for_man_wanted_in_connection_with_home_invasion/41994/
Hunt continues for man wanted in connection with home invasion
Nate Delesline III, ndelesline@starexponent.com , (540) 825-0771 ext. 110
Published: August 25, 2009
BRANDY STATION — One man is in custody, and the hunt continues for a second suspect after a violent home invasion Monday afternoon in the 21000 block of Mount Pony Road.
Authorities are seeking Gregory Lee Wallace, 27, whose last known address is in the 7000 block of Third Street in Remington. He is described as a black male, 6 feet, 3 inches tall and about 215 pounds.
Sgt. Jim Fox of the Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office said Wallace, who also goes by the name Michael Lee Ketterman, may be armed. Fox advised area residents to “use normal precautions and make sure their houses are locked.”
Wallace was last seen wearing a dark jacket or tan shirt, blue jeans and white shoes.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, Monday’s home invasion occurred around 1:40 p.m.; an unidentified male victim was treated and released at an area hospital for unspecified injuries.
About 10 minutes later, the two suspects were involved in a car crash with a Culpeper sheriff’s deputy on Brandy Road, just east of the U.S. 29 intersection with Alanthus Road.
Fox said Darryl Wallace, 18, of Washington, D.C., was detained at the scene and taken to headquarters for questioning; charges are pending against him. Police and witnesses say Gregory Wallace fled on foot across the highway.
Fox said the suspects are related but was unsure of their exact relationship.
Around the time of the crash, emergency dispatches indicated “shots fired” in the area of Bentley Lane off Auburn Road in Brandy Station. However, Fox clarified earlier news reports by saying the shots were not connected to this incident and were not of a criminal nature.
Meanwhile, northbound traffic on U.S. 29 near Brandy Station was at a standstill for several miles as Culpeper and Fauquier county sheriff’s deputies, along with state troopers, tracking dogs, a Fairfax police helicopter and a police airplane circled overhead.
By Monday night, authorities were still searching west of U.S. 29 in fields surrounding the Brandy Station carnival area.
“They have shut down the perimeter search, but we are continuing to do saturation patrols,” Fox said, adding that the search would likely continue overnight and into today.
Fox said the motive for the home invasion is still under investigation.
Witness reaction
Jimmy Howell, owner of Jimmy’s Auto Repair & Trailer supply, and employee Charlie Gochenour were working when they saw the crash, just down the street on Brandy Road.
“I was in the trailer welding and I saw them,” Gochenour said. “Cop cars were everywhere.”
The men said none of the vehicles appeared to be travelling faster than 25 mph before the crash occurred.
Daryl Wallace was taken into custody after the white Cadillac sedan he was in collided with a Dodge Magnum driven by Culpeper Deputy Christopher Tash.
After the crash, as both men watched, Gochenour said it appeared one of the suspects pulled a television and a sawed-off shotgun from the sedan. He said one of the men fled just a few feet from the shop, running between the business and a home.
“We had an eye on him the whole time,” Howell said, adding that he grabbed two large wrenches from the shop for protection in case the suspect approached.
The home invasion, chase, traffic backup, aerial search and investigation on the ground caused at least two other traffic accidents.
Star-Exponent correspondent Greg VanNostrand reports that a state trooper was involved in a three-vehicle crash while investigating the incident. The trooper’s unmarked sedan was rear-ended on U.S. 29, causing his vehicle to hit a third car.
And a Dominion Virginia bucket truck had to be pulled out of the median on U.S. 29 after the vehicle left the road for unknown reasons.
Criminal record
Records show Monday was not Gregory Wallace’s first run-in with law. Last month, town police charged him with burglary and malicious wounding following an incident in the 300 block of Duke Street. He was also charged in a 2008 incident where police say he fired a gun near Culpeper Head Start school.