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Vehicle backfire mistaken for gunfire near Branch Drive, Warrenton VA

Weapons

Reported: 10/30/2025 03:07 PM

Near S Third St, Warrenton, VA 20186

Multiple callers reported gunfire sounds near the 600 block of Branch Drive and the Red Zone parking lots. Investigation revealed the sounds were likely caused by a vehicle backfiring as it drove through the 251 Wesley shopping center. Officers searched the area but found no evidence of gunfire.

Audio|Source: Warrenton Town Police

02:19

Transcript:

00:00

I'm sorry we're getting several different calls now in the area of the six-arm block-up branch drive for people reporting would sound like gunfire

00:12

this is near the area of red zone calls are coming off branch

00:17

Correct. In route,

00:20

127, divert to that also,

00:22

to this table vehicle for impending.

00:25

127, I'm direct.

00:26

This passage director is Wally Toney.

00:33

27-34. I'm going to make my way start right now.

00:38

Come again.

00:44

Report of one, two, seven, repeat.

00:49

I'm going to come up branch and start at red zone parking lots. I'm not listening to a left front.

01:00

127 I'm in the area.

01:01

1810.

01:07

I'm getting told that it was a vehicle backfire.

01:09

Dispatch copy.

01:11

He's being told it was possibly a vehicle back firing.

01:14

Many chances in relation to the disabled.

01:24

I'm being told that it was a vehicle,

01:26

drove through the shopping center, 251 Wesley,

01:30

possibly the exhaust.

01:31

That's that is right.

01:38

34, I'm direct.

01:40

I'm around near Wesley, just checking.

01:43

Check.

01:46

Okay.

01:50

3-4-1-2-7. Do you have anything?

01:56

We've gotten two reports now that it's a vehicle bearing by with a two-step on the vehicle, so possibly it's exhaust. I'm canvassing for casings right now.

02:11

2734, I'm getting information that he came up off branch and went through the 251 shopping center.

02:17

All right, I don't have anything out here.

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Near S Third St, Warrenton, VA 20186

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