GMU gun ban upheld
Virginia’s highest court has upheld George Mason University’s ban on guns in campus buildings and at sports and entertainment events.
In an opinion released Thursday, the Virginia Supreme Court affirmed a Fairfax County judge’s ruling that the university’s firearms policy does not violate the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Rudolph DiGiacinto, a gun owner who is not a GMU student or employee but used the campus libraries and other facilities, had challenged the policy. But the court ruled that the U.S. Supreme Court has said “the right to carry a firearm is not unlimited” and has permitted bans on guns in “sensitive places,” such as schools and government buildings.
14 months for attack on transgendered women
A D.C. man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison on charges stemming from a 2010 assault of two transgendered women.
Dimas Melgar, 45, also known as Carlos Chinchilla, approached the women near 14th and Shepherd streets Northwest around noon March 13, and shouted that he hates all gay people. He then picked up a metal pole and swung at one of the victims, striking her face, prosecutors said. The victim suffered cuts to the lower lip and chin.
Woman abducted in Fairfax, then assaulted
A 20-year-old Lorton woman told authorities she was pulled into a vehicle by a stranger and assaulted, Fairfax County police said.
The woman told police she was walking on Route 1 near Woodside Lane at about 3:20 p.m. Wednesday when a man in a vehicle yelled to her. She approached the car and the man grabbed her and pulled her inside, police said.
Police said the man fondled the woman while driving into Prince William County. In Woodbridge, the woman escaped from the car and fled.
Emily Babay and Scott McCabe
