October 1975
Events that took place in Fairfax County in October, 1975:
- October 4 – Following a fistfight with 44-year-old Annandale resident Wilfred D. Derepentigny, who had upbraided him for driving around Derepentigny's neighborhood at 4:00 AM while repeatedly blowing his car horn, 22-year-old former tow truck driver and sore loser William S. Javage has the last word when he runs over Derepentigny with his car and fatally injures him.[1][2] Derepentigny suffers a fractured skull, and dies of his injuries in the Fairfax Hospital on October 10.[1]
- October 20 27-year-old Allen Sands, manager of the recently-opened Cross Roads Books pornographic bookstore in the Glen Forest Shopping Center in Falls Church, is arrested and charged with two felony counts of selling obscene literature after he sells copies of two movies, "Succulent Housewife" and "Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite", to undercover agents of the Fairfax County Police Department.[3][4]
- October 22 – 17-year-old David M. Blake mortally wounds himself at the house of a friend at 7533 Republic Court in Alexandria when he jokingly places a loaded 9 millimeter automatic pistol to his head and pulls the trigger. Blake is taken to the Alexandria Hospital, where he dies eight hours later.[5]
- October 23 – 47-year-old Nancy A. Rockcastle unintentionally turns her own suicide into a familicide when she uses the family's Mercedes-Benz to asphyxiate herself in the garage of the family's rented home at 1433 Hardy Court in McLean. The running engine of the car fills not only the garage but the house with carbon monoxide, which kills her 49-year-old husband Charles and 6-year-old son Matthew and fatally injures her 13-year-old son Andrew.[6][7]
- October 28 44-year-old teacher Charles E. Bennett fatally shoots himself in the chest with a 12 gauge shotgun in a wooded area near Paul Spring Road in Alexandria.[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Injuries Fatal to Man Hit by Car After Fight." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 16. Oct 12 1975. ProQuest. Web. 31 Dec. 2013.
- ↑ "Man Guilty in Va. Death." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jan 21 1976. ProQuest. Web. 31 Dec. 2013.
- ↑ Axelrod, Susan. "A Spice Shop, Sure... But Not THAT Kind." Evening Star, 21 Oct. 1975, Two Star HOME FINAL, p. 26. NewsBank. Accessed 19 Feb. 2018.
- ↑ Grubisich, Thomas. "Fairfax Man Gets Obscenity Term." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Mar 04 1976. ProQuest. Web. 19 Feb. 2018.
- ↑ "Youth Slain at Russian Roulette." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Oct 24 1975. ProQuest. Web. 21 June 2016 .
- ↑ Seaberry, Jane and Bill McAllister. "Wife Slays Self, Son, Husband." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Oct 24 1975. ProQuest. Web. 18 Jan. 2014.
- ↑ "Fumes Fatal to Fourth in Family." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Nov 13 1975. ProQuest. Web. 22 Oct. 2016.
- ↑ "Teacher Shoots Himself." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Oct 30 1975. ProQuest. Web. 18 Jan. 2017.
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