Sara J. Stanley, a 38-year-old White woman from Mineral, Virginia, was killed on July 31, 2022, after a night that turned from uneasy dread into sudden violence on West 8th Street. Deputies were called to the 300 block for reports of gunfire, and the scene they stepped into felt fractured—neighbors hearing shots, vehicles tearing away at speed, and blood left behind where someone had fallen. A set of keys with a lanyard bearing Stanley’s name was found, shell casings were recovered, and a ba
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