The man charged in the fatal shooting of a southwest Virginia sheriff’s deputy and the wounding of another deputy earlier this month has died in a Tennessee hospital, a local prosecutor said.

Timothy Wayne Goodman, 65, of North Carolina, died early Friday at Johnson City Medical Center, according to a news release from Smyth County Commonwealth’s Attorney Phillip Blevins.

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Channel 9 confirmed Goodman was from Cherryville in Gaston County.

Goodman had been charged with aggravated murder in the Aug. 9 death of Smyth County Deputy Hunter Reedy and with four counts of attempted murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony, Blevins said earlier. The other Smyth County deputy wounded was released a day after the shootings and is recovering at home, news outlets reported.

Goodman was hospitalized after also being shot in an exchange with officers, according to police.

Goodman’s death “concludes a significant chapter in this matter, but our commitment to supporting Deputy Reedy’s family, the other officers involved, and the entire law enforcement community is as strong as ever,” Blevins said in the release.

According to authorities, the shootings happened during a traffic stop that Reedy participated in along with police officers from Marion. An investigation found Goodman was involved in a confrontation with Marion officers and the deputies before the shooting, according to Virginia State Police.

Reedy’s funeral was held Saturday at a church in Chilhowie, with Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Attorney General Jason Miyares among the speakers. Reedy. 28, went to high school in Chilhowie and was a police officer there before joining the sheriff’s department. He was married with three children.

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An apartment development that’s set to add hundreds of units near the transforming Virginia Center Commons site is underway following a multimillion-dollar land deal that’s been over a year in the making.

Bristol Development Group has started construction on a five-story, 279-unit apartment building at 10551 Telegraph Road after paying $6 million for the 3.3-acre parcel in a deal that closed last month.

The seller was Mohawk Investment Partners LLC, which purchased the undeveloped pad site in 2022 from National Financial Realty Holdings, the owner of the adjacent Colonial Place office park. Bristol’s 7-acre project includes part of the office park property.

The July 12 closing came 10 months after Bristol secured approval from Henrico County for a revised version of the project that it first proposed last summer. The revised plan works off a smaller footprint that provides more open space on the property, which is within the form-based overlay district that Henrico has established for the VCC area.

That area includes the former mall site, which Rebkee Co. and Shamin Hotels are redeveloping with restaurants, hotels and hundreds of apartments, condos and townhomes. The redevelopment is anchored by the Henrico Sports & Events Center, which the county opened last fall.

It was the overlay district that prompted Mohawk to market the pad site for multifamily development, said Thalhimer agent David Smith, who brokered the deal for Mohawk and has worked with Bristol on its other developments in metro Richmond.

David Smith (Photo courtesy Thalhimer)

Smith said the site had been meant for a third office building but was never developed before Mohawk purchased it from National Financial, which had bought the three parcels that make up the office park the previous year in separate deals totaling nearly $25 million. County property records show it sold the pad site to Mohawk for what it paid for that parcel: $50,000.

“This was a pad-ready office site that really became a multifamily site, and that was a good thing for the owner and in this case also a good thing for Bristol,” Smith said.

“It was the overlay that enabled us to build multifamily, and in particular, multistory multifamily, so in essence the deal was already zoned,” he said. “We went to market with that, and that was obviously very attractive to the parties we marketed it to.”

Smith said he marketed the site to five or six development firms that were identified as viable contenders, including Bristol.

“At the end of the day, Bristol did win the contest, but that wasn’t for any other reason than they just made the best proposal and came up with some of the very best ideas to launch a development transaction,” Smith said. “It was a very, very tough deal. But everybody pulled together and we got it done.”

The 303,000-square-foot apartment building will front Telegraph Road and wrap around a central courtyard with community amenities. A dog park, pocket park and additional courtyard are planned beside the building, along with 339 parking spaces.

The building would wrap around a central courtyard and include additional amenities beside it. Additional parking to the south is not shown. (County documents)

The one- and two-bedroom apartments will range in size from about 450 to 1,230 square feet. Rents have not been announced.

Fortune-Johnson is the general contractor for the apartments, which are scheduled for completion in June 2026. Poole & Poole Architecture is designing the project, and Timmons Group is handling engineering work.

The project is the seventh for Bristol in the Richmond market. The Tennessee-based developer’s other area projects include Tapestry West in Henrico’s Westwood area, The Canopy at Ginter Park in the city’s Northside, Artistry at Winterfield in the Midlothian area, and 2000 West Creek in Goochland. Each of those properties was later sold to Capital Square, a Henrico-based real estate firm.

Bristol’s latest local development, The Collective West Creek, opened last year. The $75 million, 335-unit complex is off Patterson Avenue at the southern end of West Creek Business Park.

In other VCC area news, Henrico’s Economic Development Authority announced last week it has purchased The Crossings Golf Club for $3 million as part of a public-private partnership to enhance the public course in a bid to keep PGA Tour Champions tournaments in Henrico after 2025, when the Dominion Energy Charity Classic is set to lose its title sponsor and host venue.

Virginia alumnus Lauren Coughlin secured victory at the Scottish open with a 3-under 69 on Sunday to allow her to finish 15-under par on the tournament, four strokes better than second place. The win is Coughlin’s second LPGA Tour win of the summer after her victory at the CPKC Women’s Open in July. To add, Coughlin’s performance has earned her a spot on Team USA at the Solheim Cup, the women’s equivalent of the Ryder Cup in which the best golfers from USA and Europe compete in a team based format.

The thirty-one year old came into the final day of competition with a one-stroke lead. Coughlin began the day on the wrong foot, recording bogeys on the third and fourth holes before recovering with a pair of birdies on the the fifth and seventh holes. After that, Coughlin maintained her composure, recording three birdies in the final five holes to secure the title with 15 under. German golfer and Olympic silver medalist, Esther Henseleit trailed close behind for the majority of the day but was unable to keep up with Coughlin, finishing second at -11.

Coughlin was born in Minnesota but grew up in Chesapeake, Virginia. At Hickory High School in Chesapeake, Coughlin was the first female to record a four-year tenure on the male golf team. Coughlin’s high school career culminated with a runner-up finish at the Girls Championship of the Virginia State Golf Association in 2009 and 2010. After that, Coughlin won the Virginia Women’s Amateur in 2012 and 2013 as well. The Virginia native then went on to play at the University of Virginia from 2011 to 2016. She captured an individual ACC championship and All-American Honors in 2016. The ACC championship victory propelled her to be ranked 31st in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.

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Coughlin began her professional career on the Symetra tour in 2016 before earning her first professional victory at the 2018 PHC Classic. The win led to her earning a spot in the 2018 Evian Championships, her first major. She then finished seventh at the LGPA Final Qualifying Tournament, allowing her to join the LGPA tour.

On the tour, Coughlin earned her first victory at the 2024 CPKC Women’s Open and has now followed that up with her second LPGA Tour title less than a month later.

Coughlin is married to former University of Virginia football player John Pond, who recently quit his job to serve as a caddy for his wife on the LPGA Tour.