August 1975
Events that took place in Fairfax County in August, 1975:
- August 10 – 20-year-old Dorothea Burton drowns in the swimming pool of the Belle Haven Apartments in Alexandria.[1]
- August 10 – 30-year-old Maxwell G. Courtney drowns while swimming in Lake Anne in Reston.[2]
- August 12 – 62-year-old retired Army colonel Leroy Thompson, Jr. shoots and kills 18-year-old Charles B. Finney, Jr. and mortally injures 21-year-old Leslie R. Summers when Thompson catches the two men burglarizing his house at 6450 Overlook Drive in the Pinecrest neighborhood of Alexandria. Summers is taken to the Alexandria Hospital, where he dies.[3][4]
- August 26 – 13-year-old Anita Cunningham is sexually assaulted and strangled to death by William M. McGinty in the Rose Hill neighborhood of Alexandria.[5][6]
- August 28 – 31-year-old Judy C. Mills is killed when she is thrown 45 feet from a motorcycle driven by 39-year-old Joseph C. Deaton and lands in front of a car driven by 20-year-old Gerald C. Randall at the intersection of Ox and Portsmouth Roads in Fairfax. Mills is taken to Fairfax Hospital, where she is pronounced dead.[7]
References
- ↑ "Visitor Drowns at Pool Party." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Aug 13 1975. ProQuest. Web. 18 Jan. 2017 .
- ↑ "Smithsonian Employee is Drowned." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Aug 12 1975. ProQuest. Web. 21 Aug. 2014.
- ↑ Grubisich, Thomas. "Ex-Colonel Kills 2 Intruders in Home." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Aug 13 1975. ProQuest. Web. 3 July 2014.
- ↑ Grubisich, Thomas. "Killing of 2 Night Intruders Called Justifiable by Horan." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Aug 21 1975. ProQuest. Web. 3 July 2014.
- ↑ Grubisch, Thomas. "Body found in Fairfax." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Aug 28 1975. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1996). Web. 8 Feb. 2013.
- ↑ Seaberry, Jane. "Fairfax Youth Gets 20 Years in Murder of Girl." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Jul 29 1976. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1996). Web. 8 Feb. 2013.
- ↑ "Cyclist is Killed After Fall." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Aug 29 1975. ProQuest. Web. 17 July 2017.
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