He told her he was 17, just a few months shy of 18. In reality, the “boy” she had been talking to was a 28-year-old sheriff’s deputy from Virginia named Austin Lee Edwards. “The Washington County’s Sheriff’s office gave Austin Lee Edwards a gun, a badge and cloaked him with the authority of the law,” Perry said in a statement. …
A memorial outside the burned Riverside home where three people were found dead Friday. Edwards resigned from the Virginia State Police on Oct. 28 and started with the sheriff’s office about three weeks later. He completed training with the Virginia State Police Academy in January, officials said, and was hired as a patrol deputy with the sheriff’s office in rural, …
