It was a robbery. Here's the official FCPD blog entry about it:5727 Burke Centre Parkway (Safeway), 02/02/2019, 11:00 p.m. Two men entered the Safeway and filled a basket with merchandise. They left the store without paying for the merchandise. The manager confronted the men in the parking lot. One of the men displayed a black handgun, which is believed to have been an airsoft gun, and fired m
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Jessflower123 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > On Saturday night around 6pm. I saw 7 cop cars > outside the west Springfield T-mobile. There was > crime tape up all around the store. Does anyone > know what happend? Was it a robbery or something > else. Did anyone get hurt? Let me know l. > It was a robbery. According to reports, four suspects
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On the night of July 14, 2017, 63-year-old Pamela Denise Hansen Hargan and her 23-year-old daughter Helen Lorena Hargen were found shot to death in Pamela's home at 6708 Dean Drive in McLean. Fairfax County Police originally reported the deaths of the 2 women as a murder-suicide, with Helen shooting her mother, then herself. However, the investigation took a strange turn when it came out that th
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BTW Not A 1 Way Street Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They were racing is what I heard at the time from > the news , not from history books, not a single > car accident at fault, but young people racing so > what about the other guy huh ?? Racing or not ? If > the other guys totally innocent say it Reinemer was racing another car, a red Chevelle,
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Eric bennefield Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ironically, in the same neighborhood that the > shooting occurred lives a family named ROBLES > whose high school aged son answered the door to a > shotgun blast. > Murder was never solved. > Father runs USAA, yes, that USAA, as the CEO. > Murdered son attended lee high school and was said > t
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30-year-old Courtney A. Southern was fatally stabbed by his niece, 22-year-old Chardnay N. Southern, in the family home at 8015 Steadman Street in Alexandria late on Monday morning. Southern and his niece had been arguing when she stabbed him at about 11:00 a.m. in the home in the Mount Vernon Valley neighborhood in Hybla Valley. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. S
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RIP Tasha Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's not the only Madeira related murder...some > psycho kidnapped, raped, murdered and tied one of > the students to a > tree...https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a4239/r > emembering-tasha/ John S. Gilreath kidnapped and tortured Natalia "Tasha" Semler on the grounds of the Madeira School in McLean on
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Lake Barcroft was originally created as a reservoir for the Alexandria Water Company, which constructed a dam impounding the Tripps and Holmes Run near the old Barcroft Mill starting in 1913. In 1950, with the completion of its first dam on the Occoquan River imminent, Alexandria Water put the reservoir and the surrounding property up for sale. It was purchased and developed into the Lake Barcro
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Route 236 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When did route 236– little river turnpike—stop > being a toll road? 1896. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors accepted the deed for the road on May 11, at which point it became a public road, although the Little River Turnpike Company had sold all its toll houses earlier in the year. The state took over the Lit
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El Vez Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wine and dine Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > The first Anita's in Vienna was in that > building. > > It's the very good Maple Avenue Restaurant > these > > days. > > Wrong. The first Anita's was across the street > from the former Magruders ne
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Nice area eh? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I seem to remember last year a young Spanish boy > was found dead in this same park? You might be thinking of 16-year-old Christian Perez, a member of the Surenos youth organization, who was beaten to death in the Woodlawn Park by Mario Reyes and Francisco Gonzalez Sanchez, both members of MS-13, on March 19, 20
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native 1960 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Two drop outs from Lee High School named Allen and > Castanza shot and Killed Mr. Hunter. I've found two different names for the 17-year-old that shot and mortally wounded Herbert C. Hunter at the Hunter Motel on January 7, 1976. One source says his name was John Casanto, while the other says John Costanzo. His p
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Here's the press release from FCPD: DETECTIVES INVESTIGATING DOUBLE MURDER IN RESTONFair Oaks Police District – Homicide detectives are investigating a fatal shooting that happened around 5 am in the 2600 block of Black Fir Court in Reston. Our preliminary investigation revealed three people were shot. Two were pronounced dead at the scene. They have been identified as 48-year-old Scott Fricker
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The cops are pretty confident that the shooter was 23-year-old aspiring rapper* Yohannes Nessibu, but he's fled to Ethiopia and there's no extradition for citizens, as I mentioned in an earlier post. See also https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/after-a-young-couple-was-killed-the-alleged-gunman-fled-to-ethiopia-he-may-never-face-trial/2017/10/12/ee339320-a799-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d9
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Oakton Resident Bitter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And yet nothing from our board one we > pay $350 a month for I am not sure what! You're paying for ~25 years of deferred maintenance on the Summit Square apartments. When Orion Residential converted Summit Square to Four Winds of Oakton, they spent all the money on lipstick on a pig-type upgrades to co
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dkjnn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > The man was taken to the hospital, where he > died. The woman is living. > > Guess what? Marital homicide is still much more > common than criminal. > > The fact is he's dead and the women may be telling > stories to protect (each other / women). > > First establish who was wounded first
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A Springfield man committed suicide at his home in the 7500 block of Springfield Hills Drive with a chainsaw after attacking his wife with an axe. The 70-year-old man was discovered beating his 76-year-old wife with the blunt end of an axe by another family member. The woman was rescued by the family member, who struggled with the man over the weapon in the front yard of the home. Following the
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That's the former Northern Virginia Training Center. It was a residential facility for the seriously mentally handicapped that closed last year, after having been open for a touch over 40 years. (It opened in 1973 as the Northern Virginia Training Center for the Mentally Retarded, but lost the latter part of that appellation in the early 90s, IIRC.) The commonwealth sold the 78-acre site to Eric
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connection?? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Rosie Gordon and Melissa Brannen disappeared > around the same time. Rosie in Burke, Melissa in > Lorton. Both little girls around the same age. > That has always seemed like more than a > coincidence to me. 10-year-old Rhiannon Rose "Rosie" Gordon was kidnapped from the Lake Braddock neighborhood on
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LOL, "Schooly McSchoolface" got 44 points.
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Billy Sotero yne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why? You can but "fractured Fairfax" for like $23 If you want to overpay for a crappy Web site like Fractured Fairfax, who am I to tell you how to waste spend your money?
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Thom Devoltes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Get rid of judge that went to GMU law > school-that's like NVCC of Law school That's nearly a third of the bench, including all the female judges.
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The other party in the case was Sandra Ysabel Flores, and the case ID is CL-2016-0004947.
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I prefer to rely on half-assed research rather than speculation, so I looked up the victims' names on the Prince William County General District Court Web site. If I've got the right two people, then Gregory Le'Shai Dennis and Ryan Jonathan Cross were both black. More interestingly, both men were also on deferred disposition for possession of marijuana, which may be why there's speculation that
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Freq Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The developers just scored another old brick > Mclean rambler to tear down. Nope. 6708 Dean Drive is a 5,237 square foot home with 6 bedrooms and 5½ baths that was built in 2014. It's already gotten the McMansion treatment courtesy of New Dimensions.
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FCPD investigators have determined that the daughter, 23-year-old Helen Lorena Hargan, fatally shot her mother, 63-year-old Pamela Denise Hansen Hargan, then shot and killed herself. The 7-year-old was not at the house at 6708 Dean Drive in McLean during the murder-suicide. The family dogs have also been taken care of. See also https://fcpdnews.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/update-to-death-investiga
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Two dead women found at 6708 Dean Drive in McLean. Neighbors say that three people, a grandmother, mother and child, lived at the house. FCPD is investigating the case as a possible murder-suicide.
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WaPo's got an article on this at https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/2017/07/10/e25c1080-65af-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_story.html My takeaway is that despite really, really wanting a shiny new building, they just couldn't sell it to Congress. Even with all the shenanigans about trading the Hoover Building site to a developer, it still had a $2 billion price tag. I am curious as to wha
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Drunk one Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > WTF is a grain alcohol permit? How the hell do you > get one ? If you want to buy grain alcohol that's above 151 proof from an ABC store, you have to get a special permit. The enabling legislation is in Virginia Code § 4.1-119., section E:No Class 1 neutral grain spirit or alcohol, as defined by federal regulations
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My theory is that it's the renaissance of passenger trains that's at least partially responsible. They're specifically made to run smoother and they're much lighter than freight trains. These two factors mean they run quieter, which means less warning for someone who's walking on the tracks. If you're on the train tracks and you don't hear a train moving at 60 MPH until it's a half-mile away, yo
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