Fredericksburg Free Press" A year after mass shooting, some Olde Greenwich residents ‘barely come outside’

A year after mass shooting, some Olde Greenwich residents ‘barely come outside’

by Joey LoMonaco | Jul 10, 2026 | , Public safety, Region

Juanita Shanks (left) and Gary Holland walk the 500 block of Olde Greenwich Circle in May. Through the Sounding the Alarm initiative, the two have plans to build a playground not far from the site of the April 2025 mass shooting that claimed three lives. (Photos by Jeff Kearney)

Usually, whenever Danielle and her sons pulled into their old neighborhood, the first row of townhomes off Farrell Lane in Spotsylvania’s Olde Greenwich community, they’d drive around the block a couple of times before parking.

“Because, that’s just our thing,” she said.

But one evening in April last year, they took a straight line home. Maybe it was the trunkful of groceries that influenced the route. Or, maybe, a child’s intuition.

“For some reason that day my boys were like, ‘No, mommy, let’s just go home and get in the house,’” she recalled. “It was just … it was a weird day. But that day I was just like, ‘OK, we’re just going to go in the house.’”

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