16-Year-Old Dies After Apparent Accidental Shooting

Mount Vernon District – The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is conducting an autopsy of a 16-year-old boy. At about 7 p.m. Thursday, our officers were called to a home in the 8400 hundred block of Del Norte Court in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County after the apparent unintentional discharge of a firearm. Preliminarily, the investigation has found

UPDATE: DETECTIVES SEEK HELP FROM THE PUBLIC

  Homicide detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying suspicious graffiti found near the location of the suspicious death scene. Detectives continue to investigate the circumstances involving the death of 26-year-old James McDonald of Chantilly. We are awaiting final results from the medical examiner. Anyone who may have information about this case is asked to please call Detective J.

Detectives Conducting Suspicious Death Investigation; Requesting Information from Public

Homicide detectives this evening are investigating a suspicious death after a body was found in a wooded area of Clifton. An autopsy was conducted this afternoon on 26-year-old James McDonald of Chantilly, who was discovered last night with trauma to the upper body. Detectives are trying to determine the cause and manner of death. He was last seen by a

9 Year Old Boy Dies in Tragic Accident at his School

A 9-year-old boy has died after an accident at Franconia Elementary School. The boy, who was in the School Age Child Care (SACC) program at his school on Beulah Road, was in the gym at about 4:45 yesterday afternoon. The child, Wesley Lipicky, and a teacher, both simultaneously pressed a button to open a large, motorized room partition that splits

Missing 91-Year-Old Gerard Restaino Found Deceased

McLean District Station – After an intense two-day search for a 91-year-old man with memory issues, unfortunately our officers found his body today in a field in the 8900 block of Leesburg Pike in Vienna. Mr. Gerard Restaino disappeared from a car dealership in the 8600 block of Leesburg Pike in Vienna on Friday, January 19, at 4 p.m. Officers

UPDATE: MURDER SUSPECT IDENTIFIED

West Springfield Police District – Detectives now know through DNA who killed a 77-year-old Fairfax man on 4/20/17. Phuong Thanh Nguyen, 53, was responsible for the murder of his uncle, Cong Huu Nguyen. The killer fled to Vietnam the day after the homicide and was later found dead there of an apparent suicide. The motive in this murder appears to

Detectives Investigate Deadly Single Car Crash in Burke

West Springfield Police District – 46-year-old, Shahram Johanshad of Fairfax was killed when the 2010 Nissan Altima he was driving left the roadway and crashed into two trees. Officers were sent to the area of the Fairfax County Parkway and Waterline Drive shortly before 11:30 last night when the crash was reported. They located the car and Johanshad; the sole