Man assaulted at house in Barcroft Terrace
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A huge amount of police activity disrupted the quiet streets of Barcroft Terrace in Mason District Tuesday night, as dozens of police cruisers, firetrucks, and ambulances descended on Melvern Place, a neighbor reports.
According to a Fairfax County Police spokesperson, there had been a fight between two men, and a 28-year-old man was transported to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Joel Palacios Vasquez, 44, of the Alexandria area of Fairfax County was taken into custody and charged with malicious wounding.
According to a neighbor, the scene of the crime, 3904 Melvern Place, is an illegal boarding house, and one of the tenants was drunk and attacked a man with a machete. The police would not provide additional details beyond what is in the daily police blotter. The incident occurred Columbia Pike and Holmes Run Stream Valley Park.