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1999

Events that took place in Fairfax County in 1999:

January

• January 2 – 17-year-old Troy Wooten mortally injures 21-year-old Jason Baughman when he provides the coda to Baughman's assault on his pregnant ex-girlfriend Megan Craig by smashing Baughman's skull with a two-foot steel pipe.^[1] Baughman is flown to the Inova Fairfax Hospital, where he dies two days later.^[2]
• January 8 – Circuit Court Judge Robert W. Wooldridge, Jr. sentences Troy A. Demar to 40 years in prison for stabbing his 23-year-old girlfriend Christine Allen to death in her Alexandria apartment on February 28, 1998.^[3]
• January 13 – A failed business negotiation in a Fairfax parking lot results in the shooting deaths of 22-year-old Robert J. Davidson and 16-year-old Alexander D. Szymkowicz. The negotiation was in fact a ruse by recreational agricultural products salesman John P. Michaelangelo to steal $900 from a group of three youths which included Szymkowicz. When Davidson brandished a cigarette lighter shaped like a handgun in furtherance of the attempted rip-off, Szymkowicz reciprocated by brandishing a handgun shaped like a handgun and fatally shot Davidson in the chest. Michaelangelo then wrestled the gun away from Szymkowicz and shot him in the head.^[4][5]
• January 24 – 44-year-old Christine Wolf confronts her husband, 41-year-old Randy M. Kuklis, with a videotape of him with another woman, then shoots him several times before committing suicide in the couple's home at 8836 Camfield Court in Alexandria.^[6][7]

February

• February 2 – 29-year-old Ralph J. Caudill enters an Alford plea to the charge of second-degree murder for shooting and mortally wounding his 53-year-old mother Judy in their home at 6489 Windham Avenue in Kingstowne on June 23, 1998.^[8]
• February 12 – Circuit Court Judge Robert W. Wooldridge, Jr. sentences Dolly Parks to 25 years in prison for the murder of her estranged husband's girlfriend, Gwendolyn T. Jackson, in Jackson's townhouse at 4559 Southland Avenue in the Lincolnia area of Alexandria on November 25, 1997.^[9]
• February 13 – 19-year-old Kennell Alexander resolves a failed narcotics transaction by fatally shooting 23-year-old Alvin May and wounding another man in the Cedar Ridge Apartments in Reston.^[10][11][12]
• February 25 – 28-year-old Clifford M. Scheid beats his 76-year-old grandmother Lois G. Hampton to death in her home at 4504 Carrico Drive in Annandale.^[13][14]

March

• March 19 – Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Stanley P. Klein sentences 20-year-old Charlene C. Taylor to nine years in prison for the starvation death of her son Trevon in January 1998.^[15]

April

• April 19 – Edward L. Stinnette is appointed Chief of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department by the Board of Supervisors.^[16]

May

• May 7 – Matthew Harper is sentenced to 35 years in prison by Circuit Court Judge Michael P. McWeeny for the 1995 murder of his sister, Anne, and for subsequently setting the family home at 10985 Ryers Place in Fairfax on fire.^[17]
• May 11 – Sergey Ivanov and his wife Olga Yanovich capture a three-foot-long caiman living in Lake Accotink. Yanovich had first noticed the animal, a relative of the crocodile, in the lake on May 4. The family named him George.^[18]
• May 17 – 21-year-old Sean L. Robertson fatally shoots his girlfriend's other boyfriend, 20-year-old Michael T. Petruska, in Chantilly.^[19][20]
• May 26 – 63-year-old Fuad K. Taima, his 54-year-old wife Dorothy, and their 16-year-old son Leith are shot to death in the family home at 6808 Broyhill Street in McLean.^[21][22]

June

• June 12 – 16-year-old James H. Randall is mortally injured when he and 21-year-old Robert Clay are shot by Eddie Bennett at the Four Seasons community clubhouse at 1201 Herndon Parkway in Herndon. Randall and Clay had earlier crashed the graduation party of Bennett's daughter Shauntai and were involved in a fist fight that caused the party to break up. They returned later that evening and one of the pair started shooting in the clubhouse, upon which Bennett returned fire. Randall was taken to the Inova Fairfax Hospital, where he died early the next morning.^[23][24][25]
• June 25 – 17-year-old Troy Wooten is sentenced to 10 years in prison by Circuit Court Judge Arthur B. Vieregg, Jr. for mortally injuring 21-year-old Jason Baughman with a steel pipe on January 2.^[26]

July

• July 6 – 35-year-old Serena Yang is suffocated in her home at 14120 Wood Rock Way in Centreville by 43-year-old Ze Sheng Wang.^[27][28]
• July 11 – 19-year-old Micah O. Bohn, 23-year-old Joe Kern, and Timothy Jerman fatally beat 21-year-old burn artist Justin R. Rhatigan with baseball bats at the home of Bohn's 18-year-old girlfriend, Lisa A. Panko, at 7357 Springleigh Way in Kingstowne for selling them $1200 worth of aspirin pills as ecstasy. Rhatigan is taken to the Inova Fairfax Hospital, where he dies on the afternoon of July 12, becoming the county's 14th homicide of the year.^[29][30]
• July 19 – Toussaint E. Summers, Jr. becomes Chief of the Herndon Police Department.
• July 31 – 16-year-old Luis Ernesto Villanueva is fatally stabbed in the Lincolnia area of Alexandria. Villanueva is taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital, where he is pronounced dead.^[31]

August

• August 3 – 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.^[32]

September

• September 7 – 39-year-old Keith J. Gardner pleads guilty to murdering his 63-year-old mother Jannis, his 64-year-old father Jimmy, and his 90-year-old grandfather Elmer as they slept in their Lorton home on the night of April 30.^[33]
• September 13 – After extracting promises that they will upgrade the existing system, including an upgrade to allow customers to use their own cable-ready television sets, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors votes to allow Cox Communications to purchase the Media General Cable cable TV system.^[34]

October

• October 11 – 24-year-old Robin J. Kehrer is strangled to death by her boyfriend, 33-year-old Jason A. Morant, in the stairwell of the office building at 3975 Fair Ridge Drive in Fairfax where they both work.^[35][36][37]

November

• November 9 – 23-year-old Joe Kern pleads guilty to second-degree murder and abduction for the fatal beating of burn artist Justin R. Rhatigan at a Kingstowne townhouse on July 11.^[38][39]
• November 11 – 56-year-old Christian B. Hughes is mortally injured by his brother-in-law, 61-year-old Issa E. Mansour, who splashes gasoline on Hughes and sets it alight at Hughes' Franconia home at 4325 Upland Drive.^[40] Hughes is airlifted to the Washington Hospital Center, where he dies two days later.^[40][41]
• November 17 – 20-year-old Tim Jerman is convicted of second-degree murder and abduction for the fatal beating of burn artist Justin R. Rhatigan at a Kingstowne townhouse on July 11.^[42]

December

• December 3 – 29-year-old Clifford M. Scheid is convicted of first-degree murder for fatally beating his 75-year-old grandmother Lois G. Hampton in her Annandale home.^[43]
• December 6 – 29-year-old Michael D. Waits pleads guilty to second degree murder for killing David W. Rider on October 16, 1998.^[44]
• December 7 – 25-year-old Lamore S. Rowe ends his fourth trial by cutting a plea deal and is convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Joseph A. Robles during a botched robbery at Robles' Springfield home on October 12, 1994. Judge Dennis J. Smith sentences Rowe to 13 years in prison.^[45]
• December 14 – 20-year-old Micah O. Bohn pleads guilty to second-degree murder and abduction for the fatal beating of burn artist Justin R. Rhatigan at a Kingstowne townhouse on July 11.^[46]
• December 14 – 41-year-old Lien T. B. Ho is stabbed to death by her 46-year-old ex-husband Phuong at her home at 6534 Wheat Mill Way in Centreville.^[47]
• December 17 – Circuit Court Judge F. Bruce Bach sentences 43-year-old Gloria Prudencio to 14 years in prison for beating, stabbing, and finally setting her 18-year-old daughter Yiti Arevalo on fire in the family's Falls Church condominium on December 22, 1998.^[48]
• December 21 – 18-year-old Lisa Panko receives an early Christmas present in the form of a three-year prison sentence for abduction for luring 21-year-old burn artist Justin R. Rhatigan to her Kingstowne townhouse, where he was fatally beaten by Micah O. Bohn, Joe Kern and Tim Jerman on July 11.^[49]

References

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3. ↑ "Man Convicted in Girlfriend's Death." The Washington Post. WP Company, 09 Jan. 1999. Web. 03 Sept. 2017.
4. ↑ Jackman, Tom. "Fairfax Man, 19, Charged in Shooting that Left 2 Dead." The Washington Post: 0. Jan 15 1999. National Newspapers Core. Web. 27 Dec. 2012.
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16. ↑ Mustac, Frank. "Stinnette to Leave Office in May after Three Decades with Department." FairfaxTimes.com. Post-Newsweek Media, Inc./FairfaxTimes.com, 5 Mar. 2003. Web. 21 Aug. 2014.
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