You people in Alexandria can now rest as Charles Severance is charged with murder!
http://www.wtop.com/41/3697533/Severance-charged-in-3-homicides
WASHINGTON - Alexandria police have charged a once-mayoral candidate with the deaths of three prominent city residents, whose homicides have gone unsolved.
Police issued a statement Monday saying Charles Severance is charged with murdering Ruthanne Lodato, Ron Kirby and Nancy Dunning.
Severance became the main focus of a police investigation after the death of Lodato in February. Investigators developed a sketch based on the bearded man who knocked on Lodato's door spurring a manhunt in Alexandria.
Ron Kirby, who was a transportation planner for the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, was shot as his door in November 2013.
Nancy Dunning was the wife of then-Alexandria Sheriff James Dunning and was killed inside her home in 2003.
Severance was extradited from West Virginia to Loudoun County where he was indicted on a weapons charge earlier this year. He remains in the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center.
Once a resident of Alexandria, Severance twice was a fringe candidate for mayor.
Police say Severance faces charges of first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony in connection with Dunning's death.
He is charged wtih capital murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by a felon in connection with Kirby's deah.
And he is charged with capital murder, two counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, possession of a firearm by a felon and malicious wounding for killing Lodato and for shooting and injuring another woman who was in the home at the time.
Capital murder charges can qualify for the death penalty. But prosecutors said Monday they will not seek the death penalty in the killings, according to the Associated Press.