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2015

Events that took place in Fairfax County in 2015:

January

• January 19 – Following his State of Sully address, long-time Sully District Supervisor Michael R. Frey announces he will not seek reelection to a seventh term.^[1]

February

• February 2 – Mount Vernon District supervisor Gerald W. Hyland announces that, after 28 years, he will retire and not seek another term on the Board of Supervisors.^[2]
• February 3 – 37-year-old Natasha McKenna suffers cardiac arrest after being tasered four times while being removed from her cell and placed in a restraint chair at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center. After noticing that McKenna has died, Fairfax County Sheriff's deputies resuscitate McKenna and take her to the Inova Fairfax Hospital, where she dies for keeps on February 8.

March

• March 1 – Captain Ron Lanzo takes command of the Fairfax County Police Department's Reston District Station.^[3][4]
• March 16 – In what are believed to be unrelated incidents, the body of 22-year-old William Adolfo Rivas Leiva is discovered in a wooded area near Folly Lick Stream off the 1500 block of Hiddenbrook Drive in Herndon and the body of 19-year-old Milton Adonay Leon Angel is found in a creek behind an apartment building in the 4300 block of Ivymount Court in Annandale. Both men are found with upper body trauma consistent with homicide.^[5]
• March 19 – 56-year-old Paul W. Church dies in a fire at 5631 Southampton Drive in Springfield.^[6][7]
• March 26 – 64-year-old Santos Rafael Zelaya is shot and mortally wounded during a home invasion robbery at his home at 6103 N Kings Highway in the Huntington section of Alexandria when he confronts the three robbers with a machete.^[8] Zelaya is airlifted to a local hospital, where he dies.^[9]
• March 29 – 19-year-old Dilbar Noory unintentionally kills herself when she loses control of her 2004 Honda Accord, striking two other vehicles on Lee Chapel Road in Burke.^[10][11]

April

• April 2 – 31-year-old Ubaldo Lopez Yanez fatally stabs 36-year-old Jose Ramirez Guardado in a vacant unit in the Fairmont Gardens apartments in Annandale.^[12][13]
• April 13 – Former Lanier Middle School principal Scott F. Poole takes over as principal of W.T. Woodson High School.^[14]

May

• May 17 – 24-year-old Rashad Kejuan Daye is shot and killed during an attempted robbery at the apartment of 22-year-old Kevin M. Baldwin in the Shadowood Condominiums in Reston.^[15][16]
• May 22 – Annandale High School principal Vincent J. Randazzo announces his retirement, seeking to "spend more time with family and pursue new and different opportunities."^[17]
• May 25 – 7-year-old Fatmata Kamara drowns in the community pool in the Lorton Station neighborhood of Lorton.^[18][19]

June

• June 14 – A two-year-old boy drowns at the Pirate's Cove Waterpark at the Pohick Bay Regional Park in Lorton. He is resuscitated and taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital, where he dies four days later.^[20]

July

• July 16 – 25-year-old Mohammed Moshin Najim is fatally shot by 53-year-old Thomas R. Lienau outside Lineau's home at 8163 Curving Creek Court in Springfield. Najim is taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital, where he dies.^[21]
• July 21 – 19-year-old Brooke L. Lancaster commits suicide by jumping off a parking garage on Dulles Station Boulevard in Herndon.^[22][23]
• July 27 – Governor Terry McAuliffe appoints Circuit Court judge Jane Marum Roush to the bench of the Virginia Supreme Court.^[24]
• July 31 – Fairfax County Police officer Adam D. Torres is fired.^[25]
• July 31 – 33-year-old Eric J. LaRocque is shot to death in a bedroom of his home at 1822 Midlothian Court in Vienna.^[26]

August

• August 3 – 56-year-old Peter M. Kester is killed when he crashes his moped into a Toyota Camry that attempts a U-turn on Franconia Road near Thornhill Court in Springfield.^[27]
• August 5 – 42-year-old Khalid Aboumalik is robbed and murdered in the Huntington Park in Alexandria by 19-year-old Michael N. Powell.^[28][29][30]
• August 26 – 16-year-old Vladimir Antonio Perez Flores drowns in the Little Hunting Creek near where it flows into the Potomac River in Alexandria.^[31][32]

October

• October 1 – 49-year-old Alfredo R. Prieto is executed by lethal injection at the Greenville Correctional Center in Jarratt for the murders of Rachael A. Raver and Warren H. Fulton, III in Reston in 1988.^[33]
• October 4 – 34-year-old Jose Anibar Cisneros is fatally shot by Charles W. Kibler in the Groveton area of Alexandria.^[34][35][36]
• October 21 – 72-year-old Silvia Raquel Corella Erazo is struck and mortally injured by a 30-year-old Sterling-area man driving a 2005 Honda Accord as she attempts to cross Wiehle Avenue near Chestnut Grove Square in Reston. Corella is taken to the Reston Hospital Center, where she dies.^[37]
• October 30 – W. T. Woodson High School Chemistry teacher Susan Sharaf burns herself and five students, two of them seriously, while performing a demonstration for the class. Three of the injured students are taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital, while the two most critically injured victims, Sonya Garvis and Nolan Ward, are flown to MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. The fire also causes the school's evacuation, and is estimated to have caused $7500 in damage.^[38][39][40]

November

• November 1 – 69-year-old Zahoor Ali Khan is struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver as he attempts to cross Franconia Road in Alexandria.^[41]
• November 18 – 22-year-old Marquel L. Davis is shot to death by Andre C. Wilkins in his mother's apartment in the Colchester Towne Condominium complex in the Hybla Valley area of Alexandria.^[42][43][44]
• November 19 – 50-year-old prisoner Monty Roy Saito is found unresponsive in the infirmary of the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center. Saito is taken to the Inova Fairfax Hospital, where he dies the next day.^[45]
• November 21 – 91-year-old Mildred H. Bylund is mortally injured in a house fire at 7113 Sylvan Glen Lane in Fairfax Station. Bylund is taken to the Inova Fairfax Hospital, where she dies.^[46]

December

• December 18 – 18-year-old Lake Braddock Secondary School student Laween A. Akrawi unintentionally kills himself while driving on the Franconia-Springfield Parkway in Springfield when he loses control of the BMW 3-Series he is driving and crashes into the trees alongside the roadway.^[47][48]
• December 21 – 73-year-old Jae Hyun Cho fatally electrocutes 56-year-old Kum Yeon, then attempts to kill himself by the same method in his basement apartment at 7160 Pennys Town Court in Annandale. Cho is taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, and dies on January 9, 2016.^[49][50][51]
• December 25 – 34-year-old Santos Narcisco Osorio fatally stabs 23-year-old Edgar Armando Serrano in Falls Church to settle an argument at a party.^[52][53]

Crime

There were 13 murders or other homicides in Fairfax County in 2015.^[54]

References

1. ↑ Hobbs, Bonnie. "Sully District Supervisor Michael Frey Not Running for Reelection." Connection Newspapers. Connection Newspapers, 20 Jan. 2015. Web. 22 Feb. 2016.
2. ↑ Olivo, Antonio. "Fairfax Supervisor Gerry Hyland Will Retire after 28 Years in Office. Second Such Announcement in 2 Weeks." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2015. Web. 01 Mar. 2016.
3. ↑ Goff, Karen. "FCPD's Reston Station Has New Leadership." Reston Now. Local News Now LLC, 18 Mar. 2015. Web. 18 May 2016.
4. ↑ Goff, Karen. "'Back to Basics' for Police in Reston, Says New Leader." Reston Now. Local News Now LLC, 27 Mar. 2015. Web. 18 May 2016.
5. ↑ WTOP Staff. "Bodies Found in Wooded Areas Are Fairfax Co.'s First Homicides This Year." WTOP. WTOP, 18 Mar. 2015. Web. 17 Feb. 2016.
6. ↑ Fairfax County Emergency Information. "Fatal West Springfield House Fire."Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department News. Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, 19 Mar. 2015. Web. 17 June 2016.
7. ↑ Fairfax County Emergency Information. "Update: West Springfield Fire Fatality Identified." Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department News. Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, 20 Mar. 2015. Web. 17 June 2016.
8. ↑ Jouvenal, Justin. "Two Charged with Murder in Killing of 64-year-old Alexandria Man." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 19 May 2015. Web. 18 Feb. 2016.
9. ↑ FCPD Public Affairs Bureau. "UPDATE: Two Charged in March Huntington Area Homicide." Fairfax County Police Department News. Fairfax County Police Department, 19 May 2015. Web. 18 Feb. 2016.
10. ↑ FCPD Public Affairs Bureau. "Fatal Crash in the Burke Area." Fairfax County Police Department News. Fairfax County Police Department, 30 Mar. 2015. Web. 06 June 2016.
11. ↑ Reed, Sharon. "Police Seek Help in Investigating Fatal Crash in Burke." Burke, VA Patch. Patch.com, 30 Mar. 2015. Web. 06 June 2016.
12. ↑ Bensen, Jackie. "Victim, Suspect in Fatal Stabbing Were Homeless: PD." NBC4 Washington. NBCUniversal Media, LLC, 2 Apr. 2015. Web. 18 Feb. 2016.
13. ↑ FCPD Public Affairs Bureau. "Update: Police Identify Annandale Homicide Victim." Fairfax County Police Department News. Fairfax County Police Department, 06 Apr. 2015. Web. 18 Feb. 2016.
14. ↑ Shapiro, T. Rees. "New Principal to Take the Helm at Woodson High." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2015. Web. 28 Feb. 2016.
15. ↑ FCPD Public Affairs Bureau. "Update 2: Police Charge Two in Reston Robbery Attempt and Identify Deceased." Fairfax County Police Department News. Fairfax County Police Department, 18 May 2015. Web. 18 Feb. 2016.
16. ↑ WTOP Staff. "2 Charged after Fatal Reston Shooting." WTOP. WTOP, 18 May 2015. Web. 18 Feb. 2016.
17. ↑ Ashford, Ellie. "Annandale HS Principal Will Retire." Annandale VA Blog. Ellie Ashford, 22 May 2015. Web. 21 Feb. 2016.
18. ↑ Culver, David. "7-Year-Old Virginia Girl Drowns Despite Rescue Efforts." NBC4 Washington. NBCUniversal Media, 26 May 2015. Web. 16 July 2016.
19. ↑ Barton, Mary Ann. "Fairfax County Girl, 7, Drowns at Lorton Pool on Memorial Day: Report." Lorton, VA Patch. Patch.com, 27 May 2015. Web. 16 July 2016.
20. ↑ "2-year-old Found at Bottom of Waterpark Pool in Lorton Dies." WTTG. WTTG, 19 June 2015. Web. 07 Jan. 2017.
21. ↑ FCPD Public Affairs Bureau. "UPDATE: Springfield Man Charged with Second Degree Murder." Fairfax County Police Department News. Fairfax County Police Department, 24 July 2015. Web. 07 Jan. 2017.
22. ↑ FCPD Public Affairs Bureau. "Police Identify Deceased Woman from Herndon Area." Fairfax County Police Department News. Fairfax County Police Department, 22 July 2015. Web. 07 Jan. 2017. <https://fcpdnews.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/police-identify-deceased-woman-from-herndon-area/>.
23. ↑ Zauzmer, Julie. "Woman Found Dead near Parking Garage Identified." The Washington Post. WP Company, 22 July 2015. Web. 07 Jan. 2017.
24. ↑ Jackman, Tom. "Fairfax Judge Jane Marum Roush Named to Virginia Supreme Court." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 27 July 2015. Web. 04 Mar. 2016.
25. ↑ Jackman, Tom. "Fairfax Police Officer Adam Torres, Who Killed John Geer in 2013, Is Fired." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2015. Web. 01 Mar. 2016.
26. ↑ Jouvenal, Justin, and Matt Zapotosky. "Vienna Engineer's Death Investigated as Homicide." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2015. Web. 17 Feb. 2016.
27. ↑ Peterson, Tim. "Springfield-Franconia: Moped Rider Dies After Colliding with Camry." Connection Newspapers. Connection Newspapers, 6 Aug. 2015. Web. 03 Jan. 2017.
28. ↑ Jouvenal, Justin. "Police Identify Man Found Dead in Huntington Park in Apparent Homicide." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2015. Web. 15 Feb. 2016.
29. ↑ "Man Arrested for Body Found in Huntington Park." WUSA9., 13 Aug. 2015. Web. 15 Feb. 2016.
30. ↑ "17-year-old Boy Charged in Alexandria-area Slaying." Fox 5 DC. WTTG, 29 Oct. 2015. Web. 15 Feb. 2016.
31. ↑ Hedgpeth, Dana, and Julie Zauzmer. "Drowned Teen’s Body Found in Potomac River." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2015. Web. 26 June 2016.
32. ↑ "Teen Dies After Going Swimming in Fairfax Co. Creek." NBC4 Washington. NBCUniversal Media, 27 Aug. 2015. Web. 26 June 2016.
33. ↑ Jackman, Tom. "Triple Murderer Alfredo Prieto Is Executed in Virginia." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2015. Web. 02 Mar. 2016.
34. ↑ FCPD Public Affairs Bureau. "UPDATE - Death Investigated as a Homicide." Fairfax County Police Department News. Fairfax County Police Department, 05 Oct. 2015. Web. 17 Feb. 2016.
35. ↑ Hedgpeth, Dana. "Man Found Fatally Shot in Fairfax on Sunday Is Identified." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2015. Web. 29 Feb. 2016.
36. ↑ FCPD Public Affairs Bureau. "Update-Arrest Made in Homicide." Fairfax County Police Department News. Fairfax County Police Department, 28 July 2016. Web. 30 Sept. 2016.
37. ↑ FCPD Public Affairs Bureau. "Fatal Pedestrian Crash in Reston." Fairfax County Police Department News. Fairfax County Police Department, 21 Oct. 2015. Web. 22 Jan. 2017.
38. ↑ Leshan, Bruce, and Nikki Burdine. "5 Students, 1 Teacher Injured in Fire at Woodson High School." WUSA9. WUSA9, 30 Oct. 2015. Web. 29 Feb. 2016.
39. ↑ Ramirez, Stephanie. "Student Injured in Woodson HS Fire Needs Surgery, 'will Recover'"WUSA9. WUSA9, 31 Oct. 2015. Web. 29 Feb. 2016.
40. ↑ Reyes, Jeannette, and Suzanne Kennedy. "Woodson High School Students Head Back to School after Fire." WJLA. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., 4 Nov. 2015. Web. 29 Feb. 2016.
41. ↑ Davis, Jennifer. "69-year-old Man Killed in Alexandria Hit-and-run." WTTG. WTTG, 2 Nov. 2015. Web. 10 Mar. 2016.
42. ↑ "1 Man Dead, 2 Injured in Fairfax County Shooting." NBC4 Washington. NBCUniversal Media, 19 Nov. 2015. Web. 14 Nov. 2016.
43. ↑ Jouvenal, Justin. "Triple Shooting in Alexandria Section of Fairfax County Leaves One Man Dead." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2015. Web. 14 Nov. 2016.
44. ↑ MacDonald, Gregg. "Maryland Man Charged with Murder of Hybla Valley Woman." Fairfax County Times. Fairfax County Times, 11 Dec. 2015. Web. 14 Nov. 2016.
45. ↑ Jackman, Tom. "California Man Dies after Collapsing in Fairfax County Jail." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2015. Web. 10 Apr. 2016.
46. ↑ Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department. "Update: Fairfax Station Fire Fatality Identified." Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department News. Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, 24 Nov. 2015. Web. 17 June 2016.
47. ↑ Barton, Mary Ann. "Fairfax Station Teen Dies in Fatal Crash in Springfield Area: Police." Fairfax Station, VA Patch. Patch.com, 19 Dec. 2015. Web. 02 June 2016.
48. ↑ Nirappil, Fenit. "Va. Teen Who Loved Cars and Dreamed of Medical School Is Killed in Crash." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2015. Web. 02 June 2016.
49. ↑ FCPD Public Affairs Bureau. "Homicide Investigation in Annandale." Fairfax County Police Department News. Fairfax County Police Department, 22 Dec. 2015. Web. 15 Feb. 2016.
50. ↑ Ashford, Ellie. "New Details Emerge on Annandale Electrocution Homicide." Annandale VA Blog. Ellie Ashford, 5 Jan. 2016. Web. 15 Feb. 2016.
51. ↑ FCPD Public Affairs Bureau. "UPDATE - Annandale Homicide." Fairfax County Police Department News. Fairfax County Police Department, 14 Jan. 2016. Web. 15 Feb. 2016.
52. ↑ Hambrick, Greg. "Christmas Day Homicide: Suspect in Custody." Falls Church, VA Patch. Patch.com, 25 Dec. 2015. Web. 14 Aug. 2016.
53. ↑ "Argument Over Tattoo Sparked Christmas Killing in Va.: Police." NBC4 Washington. NBCUniversal Media, 28 Dec. 2015. Web. 14 Aug. 2016.
54. ↑ FCPD Public Affairs Bureau. "Victim's Wife Charged with His Murder." Fairfax County Police Department News. Fairfax County Police Department, 17 May 2016. Web. 17 May 2016.

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