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Virginia saw an uptick in the number of law enforcement officers slain by gunfire this year, a figure largely at odds with the sharp jump in such killings nationwide.

Two Virginia officers — one with Norfolk police and another with the U.S. Navy Security Forces in Norfolk — were fatally shot this year, compared with only one in 2013.

Records maintained by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund show that Virginia has had 25 federal, state, local or military security officers killed by gunfire in the line of duty since 2000, an average of 1.8 per year.

For all causes of death, 75 Virginia-based officers were killed in the line of duty from 2000 to 2014, memorial fund records show. Shootings were the leading cause of officer deaths during that period, followed by traffic-related fatalities, at 22.

The fund’s national report, made public Tuesday, found that 126 officers across the country were killed in the line of duty in 2014, or 24 percent more than the 102 on-duty deaths the year before. Fifty officers nationwide were killed by guns, compared with 32 in 2013.