Convicted felon arrested in fatal shooting in Petersburg

By The Associated Press
November 15, 2019 | 7:32 PM

PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — Police in Virginia say a Petersburg felon convicted last year of robbery has been arrested in a fatal shooting.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports Petersburg police said in a news release that a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force apprehended 20-year-old Marvin Wilkins Jr. on charges that include first-degree murder. Wilkins is accused of killing 20-year-old Brandson Williams of Petersburg, who died after being found with gunshot wounds on Thursday.

Wilkins was found guilty in October 2018 on two counts of robbery and was sentenced in January to 10 years in prison, with all but one year suspended. It wasn’t immediately known why Wilkins was free after having been sentenced in January to serve a year in prison.

Wilkins is jailed without bail. It’s not known if he has an attorney.

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Information from: Richmond Times-Dispatch, http://www.richmond.com

Va. health dept. improves nursing home inspection backlog, reforms sanction criteria for facilities

By Virginia Mercury
August 22, 2026 | 8:37 PM

Stories of neglect in care or unsanitary living situations have plagued several of Virginia’s nursing home facilities in recent years and data backs up a lapse in oversight by state agencies. With reform efforts underway, the Virginia Department of Health officials said they aim to adopt sanction criteria by the end of the year to rein in bad actors and get troubled facilities back on track. As of July, 58% of Virginia’s nursing homes were overdue for inspections and 68 of Virginia’s 289 nursing homes were found to have serious deficiencies, according to ProPublica. Several of the state’s flagged facilities with numerous deficiencies also had high staffing turnover rates. The issue has been salient among various healthcare spaces, including VDH.

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