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Zak Failla

Assistant Managing Editor

zfailla@dailyvoice.com

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Equal parts Lois Lane, J. Jonah Jameson and Vicki Vale, Zak! has traveled from coast-to-coast covering small and big town community news in both in print and online for nearly a decade since his graduation from the award-winning Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in 2010.

Before settling into the Hudson Valley, Zak! previously spent time in the New York Daily News newsroom and worked for hyperlocal digital news outlets on Long Island. He wrote sports for The Ithacan and The Ithaca Journal before taking his talents to the Pacific Northwest, where he served as the sports editor at the Shoshone News-Press until heading back east to work with Daily Voice.

Zak Failla's Contributions

Weather

Tornado, Hail Possible As Severe Storms Hit Maryland, Virginia Some severe weather is expected in DC, Maryland, and Virginia as storms approach the region, bringing potential hail and possibly even a tornado, forecasters warn. An alert was issued by the National Weather Service on Monday, March 31 advising that there is a risk in the DMV region for severe thunderstorms after an unseasonably warm day. Forecasters said that the primary risk is damaging wind gusts that could lead to isolated tornados and severe hail in some parts of the area. Wind gusts may near 60 mph, officials cautioned. Strong to severe storms are possible this afternoon and even…

by Zak Failla

03/31/2025

Police & Fire

Fredericksburg Woman May Have Broken Attacker’s Arm During Violent Home Invasion, Police Say A masked man who broke into a Fredericksburg home and strangled a woman until she passed out is on the run, according to police. It happened around 10:40 p.m. on Saturday, March 29, in the 1000 block of Hotchkiss Place, officials said. According to Fredericksburg Police, the suspect — described as a heavyset man, about 6-foot-2, wearing all black and a black balaclava — forced his way through the rear basement door of a townhome and attacked a woman inside. Police say the suspect strangled the woman until she lost consciousness. After she came to, another struggle broke out — and she may h…

by Zak Failla

03/31/2025

Police & Fire

Triple Shooting Leaves District Heights Man Dead Inside Maryland Business: Police Two men are dead and a third is recovering after gunfire broke out late Friday night in Prince George’s County, sparking a double homicide investigation and a reward offer from police. Officers were called to the 4000 block of Silver Hill Road in Suitland around 10:30 p.m. on March 28, where they found 32-year-old Antonio Magruder shot inside a business, according to the Prince George’s County Police Department. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A second victim, 56-year-old Darrell Mason of Suitland, was found inside a vehicle nearby with a gunshot wound. He was rushed to a hospit…

by Zak Failla

03/31/2025

Police & Fire

Teen Driver In Stolen SUV Causes Fatal Head-On Crash On I-70 In Howard County: State Police A 49-year-old Maryland man is dead and three teenagers are in the hospital after a stolen SUV going the wrong way slammed head-on into his car during a high-speed crash in Howard County, police say. Fred Eromosele Ehimen, of Columbia, was killed early on March 31, when a Ford Explorer driven by a 17-year-old from Baltimore hit his Toyota Camry on the ramp from westbound I-70 to southbound US-29 in Ellicott City, according to Maryland State Police. The crash happened just before 12:30 a.m. on Monday morning. Emergency responders arrived to find Ehimen unresponsive. He was pronounced d…

by Zak Failla

03/31/2025

Police & Fire

Man Found Bleeding In Stranger’s Virginia Home Was Murdered, Sheriff Says A mysterious death in a quiet Fauquier County neighborhood has turned into a full-blown homicide case — and now, the man accused of murder is behind bars. Jose Velasquez-Martinez, 27, of Verona, was arrested at a hotel in Front Royal early Sunday morning, March 30, after a days-long investigation into a bizarre and deadly scene that unfolded just east of Linden, officials said. Deputies say it started around 9:50 p.m. on Thursday, March 27, when a woman came home and found a man she didn’t know — bleeding and gravely injured — inside her house. That man, identified as 29-year-old Brandon P…

by Zak Failla

03/31/2025

Police & Fire

Driver Ditched Car After I-695 Hit-Run That Injured Pedestrian In Baltimore: State Police A Baltimore woman is facing assault and traffic charges after troopers say she struck a pedestrian in a hit-and-run crash on I-695 earlier this month and then ran from the scene. Crishawna Donteece-Chane Hall, 29, was arrested in Baltimore on Tuesday, March 25, nearly a week after investigators say she sideswiped a minivan and struck a motorist standing outside it along the shoulder of the interstate. The crash happened just before midnight on Wednesday, March 19, in the inner loop prior to I-95 near Exit 11 in Baltimore County, according to Maryland State Police. Troopers with the Golden …

by Zak Failla

03/31/2025

Traffic

Drunk Driver Crashes Into Truck, Strikes Stafford Home After Buying Booze: Sheriff A speeding Toyota launched a pickup truck more than half a football field and slammed into a house during a violent DUI crash in Virginia, authorities say. It happened just before 10:00 p.m. on Friday, March 28, in the 1000 block of Ramoth Church Road, the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies say 29-year-old Stafford resident Aiden Conn was speeding westbound along the roadway when he veered off the road and crashed into an unoccupied parked pickup truck with such force that it pushed the truck approximately 175 feet—into a neighbor’s house. Nobody inside the home was hurt, but …

by Zak Failla

03/31/2025

Traffic

Driver Killed Crashing Into District Heights Building Identified By Police A District man was killed in a single-vehicle crash after slamming into a building in Prince George’s County, police said. Officers with the Prince George’s County Police Department responded around 2 a.m. Saturday, March 29, to the 5800 block of Silver Hill Road in District Heights, according to investigators. There, they found the driver—62-year-old Tyrone Eugene Perry—dead at the scene. Police said Perry had been heading north on Marlboro Pike when, for reasons still under investigation, he veered off the road and struck a building. He was pronounced dead at the scene by first responde…

by Zak Failla

03/31/2025

Police & Fire

Potomac Man Confesses To Killing Grandmother At Police Station: Officials A Montgomery County neighborhood was stunned after a 27-year-old man reportedly walked into a local police station and confessed to murdering his grandmother inside their home, authorities announced. Spencer Dillon Hamilton, of Potomac, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder on Sunday, March 30, after he walked into the Rockville City Police Station and told officers he had killed a family member, according to the Montgomery County Department of Police. Officers rushed to the 12600 block of Tribunal Lane in Potomac around 8:08 a.m., where they found 87-year-old Pauline Yvonne Tit…

by Zak Failla

03/31/2025

Schools

20 School Staffers Charged With Abusing Students In Chester County Charter School Program: DA Dozens of vulnerable children were allegedly restrained, pinched, and physically punished inside a Pennsylvania charter school by the adults entrusted to protect them, prosecutors say. Twenty former staff members of Chester Community Charter School now face charges in what authorities are calling a sweeping abuse scandal that left more than two dozen students — some as young as 5 — traumatized. “This case is every parent’s nightmare,” Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said in a statement. “We send our children to school expecting the adults will keep them safe, not abuse t…

by Zak Failla

03/31/2025

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