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Floyd Allen (July 5, 1856 – March 28, 1913) was an American landowner and patriarch of the Allen clan of Carroll County, Virginia.He was convicted and executed for murder in 1913 after a sensational courthouse shootout the previous year that left a judge, prosecutor, sheriff, and three others dead, although the validity of the conviction has been a source of debate within Carroll County for ...
The man shot and killed by an FBI agent on Monday in Carroll County has been identified as 25-year-old Jacob Bible.. Authorities still haven't released his name, and have disclosed little ...
The Sidna Allen House is a historic house located near the town of Fancy Gap, in Carroll County, Virginia.The house was built in 1911 for Sidna Allen, brother of Floyd Allen; however, he was arrested soon thereafter for complicity in the courthouse shooting of which his brother was accused, and never again lived there.
Carroll County, like neighboring Floyd, is a historical anomaly in being a solidly Republican county in “Solid South” Virginia, due to desertions from the Confederate army during the Civil War. It was the only county in Virginia to vote for William Howard Taft during the 1912 election, and the only Democrat to carry the county in a ...
Carroll County Sheriff Calvin Graham confirmed shortly after 7 p.m. in a briefing to reporters at the scene that the man involved in the standoff, whom he declined to identify, was found dead at ...
Massillon man, 20, charged with felonious assault, accused of shooting an arrow into chest of 17-year-old Saturday in Carroll County.
Beamer is a direct descendant of the notorious Allen clan of Carroll County, Virginia. In 1912, during a court trial, his great-uncle, Floyd Allen, fired rounds in a spasm of violence. The courtroom shooting left five people dead, including the judge, a prosecutor, and the county sheriff. [6]
Officers responded to a report of a shooting at the university south of Richmond around 12:30 a.m. and found four people who were shot, Chesterfield County Police said in a news release.