1982
Events that took place in Fairfax County in 1982:
Contents
January
- January 1 - 18-year-old Susan Herzog is killed by 17-year-old drunk driver Kevin Tunell when he loses control of his silver Dodge station wagon and crashes head-on into Herzog's Volkswagen on Commonwealth Boulevard in Fairfax.[1]
- January 5 - 33-year-old Nicholas E. Tomlin is shot to death in the Jefferson Manor neighborhood of Alexandria.[2]
February
- The Burke Centre Mini-Library opens in Burke.[3]
- February 16 – Three-year-old playmates Gregory Liveris and Mercedes Lopes fall through the thin ice and drown in Huntsman Lake in Springfield. Both children are taken to Commonwealth Doctors Hospital, where they are pronounced dead.[4]
March
- March 2 - 6-year-old Michael Duhrkoop, a kindergartner at Lynbrook Elementary School, is crushed to death by his school bus driver when she knocks him down with her bus and drives over him.[5]
- March 4 - While whacked out of his mind on LSD, 15-year-old David C. Gerhardt commits suicide with a shotgun in the Long Branch Park in Fairfax.[6][7]
April
- April 25 – 31-year-old Anne Holmes becomes the first open lesbian ordained in the ministry at the Emmaus United Church of Christ in Vienna.[8]
- April 28 – 27-year-old Stanley Weinstein is murdered during a robbery at an Exxon station in downtown Springfield.[9][10]
June
- June 27 – 29-year-old Gary S. Belofsky and his 26-year-old wife Esperanza are killed by a fire in their home at 6304 Beryl Road in Alexandria.[11][12]
July
- July 19 – The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors creates the Southeast Fairfax Development Corporation, funding it with $130,000 from the county's coffers.[13]
- July 26 – The Board of Supervisors awards the county's cable TV franchise to Richmond-based Media General.[14]
August
- August 20 – Anthony Horton, a 20-year-old Baltimore man, is sentenced to life in prison by Judge Barbara Keenan for the April 28 murder of Stanley Weinstein during a gas station robbery in Springfield. His two accomplices, 24-year-old James Swinson and 18-year-old Jerry Prince, are each given 25-year prison terms for their participation.[15]
October
- The Fairfax County Juvenile Detention Center opens in Fairfax.[16]
- October 9 – 18-year-old Ray E. Novotny commits suicide in Springfield by sitting on the Accotink Creek Railroad Bridge and allowing a train to strike him.[17]
- October 28 – 18-year-old Clydel D. Diggs shoots 48-year-old David Thomas, Jr. in the head with a .32 caliber revolver after the two men have sex at Thomas' apartment at 3604 Derwood Lane in the Sulgrave Manor Apartments in Mount Vernon. He then steals $25 and Thomas' car.[18][19] Thomas' corpse is discovered November 1.[18]
November
- November 10 – 18-year-old dropout James Q. Stevens enters Lake Braddock Secondary School with a rifle and takes Principal John W. Alwood and several others hostage in a standoff that lasts 21 hours before Stevens finally surrenders.[20][21]
- November 20 – Whacked out of his mind from reading the Bible and smoking PCP, 22-year-old Thomas S. Jenkins walks into his nephew's room at the house at 7814 Thor Avenue in Annandale and throws 3½-month-old Jonathan O. Dyer into a ceiling light fixture, fatally fracturing the baby's skull. By way of explanation, Jenkins tells Jonathan's parents, Diane and Bruce Dyer, "I killed the devil."[22][23]
December
- December 29 – 41-year-old D.C. police officer Samuel A. Coombs is fatally injured by 32-year-old Cory F. McDaniel, III when McDaniel drunkenly crashes head-on into Coombs' car as he drives along Hooes Road in Springfield. Coombs is taken to Commonwealth Doctors Hospital, where he dies of his injuries on January 2, 1983.[24][25]
- December 31 – 28-year-old Albert Gardner kills himself at his home on Idylwood Road in Falls Church when he loses a drunken game of Russian roulette and shoots himself in the head.[26]
References
- ↑ Carlson, Peter, and Joshua Hammer. "Outrage Over Drunk Driving." PEOPLE.com. Time Inc., 25 July 1983. Web. 26 Dec. 2013.
- ↑ "Man Fatally Shot at Fairfax Home." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): A8. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995). Jan 06 1982. Web. 8 Feb. 2012.
- ↑ "Burke Centre Library Opens." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): VA4. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995). Feb 18 1982. Web. 26 Feb. 2012.
- ↑ Sargent, Edward D. "Two Children, 3, Drown in West Springfield Lake." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Feb 17 1982. ProQuest. Web. 6 Apr. 2017.
- ↑ Sargent, Edward D. "Springfield Boy, 6, Killed when Hit by School Bus." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): B4. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995). Mar 03 1982. Web. 3 Mar. 2012.
- ↑ Shiver, Jube, Jr. "Fairfax Student's Body Identified" The Washington Post (1974-Current file): D3. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995). March 8, 1982. Web. 23 Mar. 2012.
- ↑ "Student's Death Linked to LSD" The Washington Post (1974-Current file): C9. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995). March 10, 1982. Web. 23 Mar. 2012.
- ↑ Hyer, Marjorie. "United Church of Christ Will Ordain a Lesbian To Ministry on Sunday." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 24 Apr. 1982. Web. 17 July 2016.
- ↑ Boodman, Sandra G., and Jube Shiver, Jr. "Slaying at Gas Station Triggers Manhunt in Fairfax; 3 Arrested." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): C1. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1994). Apr 29 1982. Web. 13 Dec. 2011.
- ↑ "Handgun Recovered Near Va. Slaying Site." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): B6. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1994). Apr 30 1982. Web. 13 Dec. 2011.
- ↑ "Springfield Couple Die in Morning Fire." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): B4. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1994). Jun 28 1982. Web. 29 Jan. 2012.
- ↑ UPI. "Ghost Suspected as Cause of Fire That Killed 2 People." Google Archive. Montreal Gazette, 8 July 1982. Web. 31 May 2011.
- ↑ Hockstader, Lee. "Fairfax Votes $130,000 to Transform Rte. 1." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jul 20 1982. ProQuest. Web. 18 Dec. 2013.
- ↑ Hiatt, Fred, and Lee Hockstader. "Fairfax Picks Richmond Cable Firm." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Jul 27 1982. ProQuest. Web. 19 Apr. 2014.
- ↑ Associated Press. "Man Gets Life in Va. Slaying." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): A8. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1994). Aug 21 1982. Web. 16 Jan. 2012.
- ↑ "In Short: Juvenile Detention Center Opens in Fairfax" The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Oct 20 1982. ProQuest. Web. 21 Jan. 2018.
- ↑ "Teen-Ager is Killed by Train at Accotink." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): B10. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1994). Oct 10 1982. Web. 16 Jan. 2012.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 "Slain Man found by Residents in Franconia Area." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Nov 03 1982. ProQuest. Web. 8 Mar. 2016 .
- ↑ Moore, Molly. "Man, 18, Pleads Guilty to Murder In Shooting Case."Washington Post. The Washington Post, 9 Mar. 1983. Web. 08 Mar. 2016.
- ↑ Moore, Molly, and Patricia E. Bauer. "Hostages Held in Va. High School." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Nov 11 1982.ProQuest. Web. 5 Oct. 2016.
- ↑ "Man Holding 9 Hostages at High School Gives Up." New York Times (1923-Current file): 1. Nov 12 1982. ProQuest. Web. 5 Oct. 2016.
- ↑ "Man Held in Infant's Death." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Nov 21 1982. ProQuest. Web. 28 July 2016 .
- ↑ Moore, Molly. "Va. Fisherman Sentenced to 20 Years for Drug-Related Slaying of Infant." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jul 02 1983. ProQuest. Web. 28 July 2016.
- ↑ Michnya, Rosa. "Drunk Driving Charged in Crash Fatal to Officer." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jan 03 1983. ProQuest. Web. 5 Jan. 2017.
- ↑ "Annandale Man Charged in Death of Police Officer." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jan 14 1983. ProQuest. Web. 5 Jan. 2017.
- ↑ "New Year's Eve Russian Roulette Proves Fatal." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jan 05 1983. ProQuest. Web. 5 Jan. 2017.
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