Author: Uriah Kiser

More than a week after a horrific domestic-related shooting and crash claimed the lives of two parents on June 3 in Fredericksburg, the community still knows shockingly little about what happened — and why.

Police responded to reports of shots fired around 5:32 p.m. A man pursued a woman in separate vehicles along Olde William Street and Emancipation Highway, firing multiple rounds at her car. She crashed near College Avenue after being shot several times and was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Last Tuesday night, May 19, 2026, I sat through a seven-hour Board of Supervisors meeting in Stafford County—the kind of marathon session that reveals exactly how local government really works. The main event was the approval of Virginia’s third Buc-ee’s mega travel center off I-95 at Exit 140. In a 5-2 vote, the board greenlit a project poised to become one of the county’s top taxpayers, bringing in an estimated $2 million annually.

That matters. Stafford just hiked property taxes—adding thousands to the burden on families already squeezed by higher grocery, gas, electric, and data center-driven costs. Commissioner of the Revenue Scott Mayausky noted Buc-ee’s could rank as the fourth-largest taxpayer in a county with a billion-dollar-plus budget. For residents footing the bill in one of Virginia’s fastest-growing counties, this is real relief.