This Day In Fractured Fairfax:April 11
- April 11, 1959 – 41-year-old Joseph B. Matthews interrupts breakfast in the family home at 6505 Highland Avenue in Springfield by beating to death his 3 children, 14-year-old Susan and 13-year-old twins Sharon and Steven, and attempting to murder his 43-year-old wife Helen with a baseball bat. He then commits suicide by slashing his own throat with a butcher knife.
- April 11, 1965 – 19-year-old Nicholas C. Finamore kills 15-year-old Catherine M. Atkinson, 14-year-old Amelia A. Shepard, 17-year-olds Gregory P. White and John H. Williamson, and mortally injures 16-year-old Chris Drury when he runs a red light at the intersection of Dolley Madison Boulevard and Old Dominion Drive in McLean, smashing the dump truck he is driving into a compact car carrying the five teenagers. Drury is taken to the Fairfax Hospital, where he dies on April 19.
- April 11, 1978 – The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors votes 7-2 to express its intent to move the county's administrative headquarters out of the City of Fairfax.
- April 11, 1988 – 71-year-old Joseph Bula fatally shoots his 68-year-old wife Concetta, then commits suicide at the couple's home at 10320 Rein Commons Court in the Burke Centre Station Commons neighborhood of Burke.
- April 11, 2011 – The Congressional Bank at 1800 Michael Faraday Drive in Reston is robbed by Edward M. Andrews.
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