August 1998
Events that took place in Fairfax County in August, 1998:
- August 3 – 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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[1] Reha is taken to the Inova Fairfax Hospital, where she dies of her injuries on August 5.[2]
- August 7 – Judge Michael P. McWeeny sentences 19-year-old Saeed Sheikh to 17 years in prison for his role in the murder of 17-year-old David C. Albrecht outside George C. Marshall High School in Falls Church on February 27.[3]
- August 10 – 22-year-old Michael A. Bailey shoots his 29-year-old girlfriend Rosa M. Tenorio in the head in his Reston apartment.[4][5] Tenorio is taken to the Inova Fairfax Hospital, where she dies.
- August 14 – Judge Arthur B. Vieregg, Jr. sentences 17-year-old Peter Hanvichid to 20 years in prison for his role in the murder of 17-year-old David C. Albrecht outside George C. Marshall High School in Falls Church on February 27.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Melillo, Wendy, and Erica Beshears. "Man Kills Wife, Son, Self, Police Say; 11-Year-Old Daughter found Dazed and Bleeding in Herndon House." The Washington Post: 01. Aug 04 1998. National Newspapers Core. Web. 26 Sep. 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Melillo, Wendy, and Brooke A. Masters. "Lone Survivor of Father's Shootings Dies; Va. Girl, 11, Succumbs to Complications; Dad was $10 Million in Debt, Officials Say." The Washington Post: 01. Aug 06 1998. National Newspapers Core. Web. 26 Sep. 2012.
- ↑ Beshears, Erica. "Teen Gets 17 Years in Slaying Outside High School." The Washington Post: 0. Aug 08 1998. ProQuest. Web. 16 Aug. 2014.
- ↑ "CRIME AND JUSTICE: Woman Shot in Domestic Dispute." The Washington Post: 0. Aug 11 1998. ProQuest. Web. 11 Aug. 2014.
- ↑ Jackman, Tom. "Reston Man Convicted of 2nd-Degree Murder in Girlfriend's Death." The Washington Post: 0. Dec 11 1998. ProQuest. Web. 11 Aug. 2014.
- ↑ Melillo, Wendy. "Third Teenager Sentenced in Slaying Outside School." The Washington Post: 0. Aug 15 1998. ProQuest. Web. 16 Aug. 2014.
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