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Grand jury indicts Newport News police aide

NEWPORT NEWS — A police aide here was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday on charges in connection with a deadly crash last year.

Kirk Jones, 60 of Suffolk, is charged with one count of misdemeanor reckless driving and one count of involuntary manslaughter, according to Newport News Police.

He was originally charged with reckless driving, but that charge was dropped.

On Nov. 27, 2017, officers and emergency medical crews were dispatched to a traffic crash near the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Ivy Farms Road on a report of a two-vehicle collision.

An investigation indicated that a 2015 Hyundai sedan driven by Jones crossed the median and collided with a 2011 Volkswagen sedan driven by Jonquay Kyron Byrd, 23, of Newport News.

Byrd was taken to a hospital. He died of his injuries two days later.

Police said Jones was placed on administrative leave, without pay, pending the outcome of the case.

John Mangalonzo
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John Mangalonzo ([email protected]) is the managing editor of Local Voice Media’s Virginia papers – WYDaily (Williamsburg), Southside Daily (Virginia Beach) and HNNDaily (Hampton-Newport News). Before coming to Local Voice, John was the senior content editor of The Bellingham Herald, a McClatchy newspaper in Washington state. Previously, he served as city editor/content strategist for USA Today Network newsrooms in St. George and Cedar City, Utah. John started his professional journalism career shortly after graduating from Lyceum of The Philippines University in 1990. As a rookie reporter for a national newspaper in Manila that year, John was assigned to cover four of the most dangerous cities in Metro Manila. Later that year, John was transferred to cover the Philippine National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines. He spent the latter part of 1990 to early 1992 embedded with troopers in the southern Philippines as they fought with communist rebels and Muslim extremists. His U.S. journalism career includes reporting and editing stints for newspapers and other media outlets in New York City, California, Texas, Iowa, Utah, Colorado and Washington state.

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