This Day In Fractured Fairfax:August 3
- August 3, 1980 – The fifth annual Herndon 10-Mile Run inadvertently becomes the first annual Herndon Death Race when two runners, 31-year-old Patrick Reilly and 49-year-old Henry J. Kronlage, die of heat stroke suffered during the 10-mile race.
- August 3, 1987 – The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors votes 8-1 to accept a scheme to build the Fairfax County Government Center, with only Supervisor Audrey Moore dissenting.
- August 3, 1992 – Fairfax County police are led to the partially buried skeletal remains of Victor A. White at a location in the 8500 block of Ox Road near Lorton. White had been shot several times in the back of the head. White had previously been sought in connection with several pipe bombs that had been found in his 1984 Nissan Sentra on April 8, which had been parked for several days in the staff parking lot of White Oaks Elementary School in Burke.
- August 3, 1998 – 40-year-old Natarajan Ramachandran fatally shoots his 36-year-old wife Kalpara and 7-year-old son Raj and mortally wounds his 11-year-old daughter Reha before committing suicide in the bedroom of the family's home at 12376 Clareth Drive in the Crossfields neighborhood of Herndon. Unable to process the horror of the act, which she believes is "just a bad dream", the mortally wounded Reha stumbles from the bedroom and falls asleep in another room. The scene is discovered the following day by Nagaraja Thyagarajan, Ramachandran's business partner, when the door is answered by the bloody and dazed Reha. Reha is taken to the Inova Fairfax Hospital, where she dies of her injuries on August 5.
- August 3, 1999 – 42-year-old Gloria Prudencio pleads guilty to second-degree murder for beating, stabbing, and finally setting her 18-year-old daughter Yiti Arevalo on fire at the family condominium at 3100 Manchester Street South in the Woodlake Towers Condominium complex in Falls Church on December 22, 1998.
- August 3, 2007 – Charles Caprino, an independent salesman of recreational agricultural products, is sentenced to 15 years in prison by Judge David T. Stitt for the murder of Orator W. Hall in Burke on December 10, 2006.
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