This Day In Fractured Fairfax:July 30
- July 30, 1963 – Lorton teenagers Patricia Ann Ennis, 16, Mabel L. Ennis, 15, and Charlotte L. Jencks, 19, burn to death in their house on the ironically-named Furnace Road. Fortunately, the four male members of the household, William C. Ennis, Clarence Ennis, Vernon Ennis, and Floyd Jencks manage to escape; Jencks saving baby Cindy Ann Ennis by throwing her out a window to her father, Clarence.
- July 30, 1964 – 64-year-old store owner Hyman Meyers is pistol-whipped to death by 33-year-old George Adams during a failed robbery at Meyers' Garden Food Store in Oakton.
- July 30, 1980 – Judge Barnard F. Jennings sentences William Brown, III to two life terms plus 20 years in prison for the May 26, 1979 murder of Margaret E. Goehring.
- July 30, 1998 – At the instruction of a chess piece, 21-year-old Alfred L. Head drives his 1990 Pontiac into the front wall of the family home at 1319 Westhills Lane in Reston, then beats his 56-year-old mother Libby to death with a baseball bat.
- July 30, 2000 – 14-year-old Jose Rodriguez, a member of the MS-13 youth organization, fatally stabs 22-year-old Mario A. Rubio-Martinez in the parking lot of the Culmore Shopping Center in Falls Church. Rubio-Martinez is taken to Fairfax Hospital, where he dies on the operating table during surgery.
- July 30, 2013 – The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors permanently appoints Edwin C. Roessler, Jr. as Chief of the Fairfax County Police Department.
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