Sep 29, 2021 · When the Martinez family moved into their new home in Virginia Beach, Virginia, five years ago, they had dreams of raising their children and making a life in their new neighborhood cul-de-sac.
Oct 07, 2021 · Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) says his office is investigating reports of a Virginia Beach house playing recordings of racial slurs and monkey noises near a Black family's home.
Sep 30, 2021 · A family in Virginia Beach, a coastal community of half a million people where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean, is alleging that their neighbor is harassing them with blinking lights, loud music and recordings of racial slurs and monkey noises. Jannique Martinez told CNN her clan loved their home when they first found it.
Sep 28, 2021 · Families living in a cul de sac in Virginia Beach are "desperate" for ways to stop monkey noises and a racial slur coming from a speaker inside a neighbor's home. Jannique Martinez said ...
Contact. Jane Harper covers courts and crime in Virginia Beach for The Virginian-Pilot. A native of Southeast Texas, she earned her journalism degree from The University of Texas, and worked at papers in Texas and Maryland before moving to Norfolk in 1994. Recommended on The Virginian-Pilot.
In the end, the jury chose to only convict King of misdemeanor assault and battery. They gave him the maximum sentence of one year and a $2,500 fine. Because he’d been in jail awaiting trial for more than a year, he was released that day. “I felt like I had failed society,” Jones said after hearing the jury’s verdict.