This Day In Fractured Fairfax:April 4
- April 4, 1957 – Fairfax County Police Department Captain William L. Durrer narrowly escapes death or injury when several hundred pounds of wet cement crash through the ceiling of his office. The official cause given is that workmen were pouring a floor for a shower in the jail, but the date and nature of the event suggest it was in fact a prank gone horribly wrong.
- April 4, 1968 – Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Earl C. Funderburk imposes a ban on all field trips to Washington, D.C., because of rioting in the city following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.
- April 4, 2003 – 24-year-old Matthew Fisher unintentionally kills himself in Lorton when he attempts to pass a slower car, crossing the double yellow line on Furnace Road, and crashes his 1990 Honda Accord head-on into an oncoming 2001 Ford van. Fisher and his passenger, 23-year-old Richard Harbs, are taken by helicopter to Inova Fairfax Hospital, where Fisher is pronounced dead.
- April 4, 2004 – 19-year-old Cristian J. Aranzana-Vasquez, a member of the South Side Locos youth organization, is shot and mortally wounded in the parking lot of the Days Inn at 6100 Richmond Highway in Alexandria by 22-year-old Cory J. Wilkins, a member of the La Primera youth organization, to settle a dispute between Aranzana-Vasquez and 19-year-old Donnie A. Barnes. Aranzana-Vasquez is taken to Fairfax Hospital, where he dies.
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