1992
Events that took place in Fairfax County in 1992:
Contents
January
- January 18 – 23-year-old Johnny Tart is stabbed to death outside a dormitory at Lorton Reformatory Youth Center I.[1][2]
- January 24 – Circuit Court Judge J. Howe Brown sentences Dwayne A. Wright to death for the murder of Saba Tekle on October 13, 1989.[3]
February
- February 2 – 28-year-old Jose C. Cano is found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in a burning car on Braddock Springs Road in Centreville.[4]
- February 2 – 22-year-old Alfredo Bonilla is found stabbed to death in the laundry room of an apartment building at 6134 Willston Drive in Falls Church.[5]
- February 3 – Barbara P. Beach, of the amusingly-named Alexandria law firm of Beach, Butt & Associates, becomes the Town of Herndon's first full-time town attorney.[6]
- February 5 – 53-year-old former aerospace executive Richard E. Brackeen is shot in the back of the head and mortally wounded by his wife Janet at their home at 148 River Park Drive in Great Falls. Brackeen is flown to Fairfax Hospital, where he dies.[7][8]
March
- March 18 – 45-year-old Marilyn M. Bandera is stabbed to death in her home at 6405 10th Street in Alexandria by Mack Reaves, III.[9][10]
- March 26 – 17-year-old Langley High School student Mary K. Kelley is killed in McLean when the 17-year-old driver of the Chevrolet Blazer she is riding in loses control and runs off an embankment on Old Dominion Drive.[11]
April
- April 2 – 19-year-old Victor A. White is shot to death by Michael V. Shepperson, who then dumps White's body in a ditch near Lorton.[12]
- April 7 – A referendum which would have imposed a 4 percent tax on restaurant meals and other prepared foods served in the county is defeated in a special election by a vote of 59,270 to 43,560.[13][14]
- April 8 – Fairfax County police remove seven pipe bombs from Victor A. White's 1984 Nissan Sentra, which had been sitting for a number of days in the staff parking lot of White Oaks Elementary School in Burke.[15][16]
May
- May 12 – Fairfax County Police Chief John E. Granfield announces that he will retire from the FCPD in June.[17]
- May 18 – The Centreville Regional Library opens.[18]
June
- June 9 – 45-year-old Miguel Martinez fatally shoots his 41-year-old estranged wife Sarah, then commits suicide in the apartment building where she worked at 2907 John Marshall Drive in Falls Church.[19]
- June 18 – 49-year-old Pam Hawver unintentionally kills her 14-year-old daughter Robyn and three other teenagers: Jeremy Daly and Kendra M. Kristiansen, both 15, and 16-year-old Scott Sloan, when she turns her Oldsmobile 98 into the path of a dump truck driven by Willis E. Brown, which strikes the car broadside and pushes it into another dump truck at the intersection of Route 7 and Lewinsville Road. Robyn survives the initial crash and is flown to Fairfax Hospital, where she dies.[20]
July
- July 1 – 48-year-old Dattaprasad R. Divgi fatally shoots his 42-year-old wife Dipa, then commits suicide in their townhouse at 7015 Leestone Street in Springfield.[21]
- July 18 – 4-year-old Amber L. Fisher drowns in the swimming lake at Timberlake in Oakton. She is flown by helicopter to Fairfax Hospital, but the staff there is unable to revive her.[22]
August
- August 3 – Fairfax County police are led to the partially buried skeletal remains of Victor A. White at a location in the 8500 block of Ox Road near Lorton. White had been shot several times in the back of the head. White had previously been sought in connection with several pipe bombs that had been found in his 1984 Nissan Sentra on April 8, which had been parked for several days in the staff parking lot of White Oaks Elementary School in Burke.[23][24]
- August 17 – The body of 30-year-old Dolores Mejia is found floating in Lake Barton in Burke by a passerby.[25][26]
September
- September 2 – 34-year-old convenience store clerk Mohammad Z. Kayani is shot in the head and mortally wounded during a robbery at the 7-Eleven at 7214 Beulah Street in Alexandria by Robert L. Ramdass.[27][28]
- September 18 – 33-year-old Anthony Jennings is fatally stabbed in his cell at the medium-security Central Facility at the Lorton Correctional Complex by Edward Jackson. Jennings is taken the DeWitt Army Hospital at Fort Belvoir, where he dies.[29][30]
October
- October 21 – 46-year-old Jerome W. McKagen is found shot to death in his Vienna home.[31]
November
- November 4 – 21-year-old Chester E. Grubic fatally shoots his 61-year-old father Clay as he sleeps at his home at 1907 Paul Spring Parkway in the Hollin Hall Village neighborhood of Alexandria.[32]
- November 23 – Fairfax County Sheriff Carl R. Peed fires a female deputy accused of sexually harassing three of her male co-workers.[33]
Crime
43 people were killed in 39 traffic crashes in Fairfax County in 1992. 12 of those crashes involved alcohol.
References
- ↑ Escobar, Gabriel. "Lorton Inmate Is Stabbed to Death." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 19 Jan. 1992. Web. 13 Nov. 2016.
- ↑ "Lorton Inmate Is Convicted of Killing Another Prisoner." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 16 Apr. 1992. Web. 13 Nov. 2016.
- ↑ "Death Penalty Set in Fairfax Killing." The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext): 0. Jan 25 1992. ProQuest. Web. 12 Sep. 2014
- ↑ "Fairfax Police Identify 2 Who Died on Weekend." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Feb 05 1992. ProQuest. Web. 15 Feb. 2017.
- ↑ "Fairfax Police Identify 2 Who Died on Weekend." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Feb 05 1992. ProQuest. Web. 15 Feb. 2017.
- ↑ Redding, Whitney. "NEWS NEAR YOU:New Town Attorney." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jan 23 1992. ProQuest. Web. 3 May 2014.
- ↑ Davis, Patricia, Steven Pearlstein and Bridget Roeber. "Aerospace Executive Shot to Death in Fairfax Home." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Feb 06 1992. ProQuest. Web. 30 Jan. 2014.
- ↑ Anderson, John. "Wife Says Husband was Shot by Accident." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Feb 09 1992. ProQuest. Web. 30 Jan. 2014.
- ↑ Seaberry, Jane. "Mount Vernon Woman found Slain at Home." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Mar 19 1992. ProQuest. Web. 6 June 2014.
- ↑ Pricer, Andrea. "Life Sentence given in Brutal Stabbing." FairfaxTimes.com. Post-Newsweek Media, Inc./FairfaxTimes.com, 3 Apr. 2001. Web. 06 June 2014.
- ↑ Davis, Patricia. "Fairfax Teen is Sentenced in Classmate's Death; Driver in Crash that Killed Langley High School Honor Student Receives 7 Days in Juvenile Detention." The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext): 0. Sep 04 1993. ProQuest. Web. 2 Sep. 2014 .
- ↑ Shepperson v. Com. 454 S.E.2d 5 (1995)
- ↑ Baker, Peter. "Meal Tax Rejected in Fairfax." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Apr 08 1992. ProQuest. Web. 15 June 2014.
- ↑ Official Returns - Special Election - April 7, 1992 - Fairfax County, VA Web. 15 June 2014.
- ↑ Davis, Patricia. "7 Pipe Bombs found in Car at Va. School; Vehicle was Parked on Lot for Days." The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext): b.03. National Newspapers Core. Apr 09 1992. Web. 8 Apr. 2012 .
- ↑ "Unemployed Man, 19, Sought in Fairfax Pipe Bomb Probe." The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext): b.02. National Newspapers Core. Apr 11 1992. Web. 8 Apr. 2012.
- ↑ "Around The Region: Fairfax County Police Chief Will End 7-Year Stint in June." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. May 13 1992. ProQuest. Web. 18 Jan. 2014.
- ↑ Redding, Whitney. "News Near You:Library Open House Tonight." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): BVA_4. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1994). Mar 26 1992. Web. 19 Dec. 2011.
- ↑ Davis, Patricia. "Man Kills Wife, then Himself." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jun 10 1992. ProQuest. Web. 6 June 2014.
- ↑ Davis, Patricia. "Four Va. Teenagers Die in Rte. 7 Crash." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 19 June 1992. Web. 19 June 2016.
- ↑ Davis, Patricia. "Springfield Man Kills Wife, Himself." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jul 02 1992. ProQuest. Web. 17 June 2014.
- ↑ "AROUND THE REGION: Girl, 4, Drowns In an Oakton Lake." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jul 19 1992. ProQuest. Web. 11 July 2014.
- ↑ "Unemployed Man, 19, Sought in Fairfax Pipe Bomb Probe." The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext): b.02. National Newspapers Core. Apr 11 1992. Web. 8 Apr. 2012.
- ↑ Davis, Patricia. "Skeleton of Suspect in Pipe-Bomb Case found in Woods." The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext): d.04. National Newspapers Core. Aug 11 1992. Web. 8 Apr. 2012.
- ↑ "Body found in Fairfax Lake." The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext): 0. Aug 18 1992. ProQuest. Web. 15 Aug. 2014>
- ↑ "Lake Victim Identified." The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext): 0. Aug 19 1992. ProQuest. Web. 15 Aug. 2014.
- ↑ Miller, Bill. "Two Alleged Members of Robbery Ring Charged with Slaying Va. Clerk." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 4. Sep 22 1992. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995). Web. 3 Sep. 2012.
- ↑ Sanchez, Carlos. "3 Sought in Slaying of Clerk in Robbery." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Sep 03 1992. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995). Web. 3 Sep. 2012.
- ↑ Weil, Martin. "Lorton Has 3 Stabbings in 3 Days." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 22 Sept. 1992. Web. 05 Nov. 2016.
- ↑ "Lorton inmate guilty of killing prisoner" The Washington Times, 24 Aug. 1993, 2, B - METROPOLITAN - LOCAL ROUNDUP - VIRGINIA, p. B2. NewsBank. Accessed 22 Dec. 2017.
- ↑ "Fairfax Man's Death Investigated." The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext): b07. Oct 22 1992. ProQuest. Web. 27 July 2016 .
- ↑ Davis, Patricia. "61-year-old Mount Vernon Man Is Found Fatally Shot at Home." The Washington Post. WP Company, 05 Nov. 1992. Web. 11 Jan. 2018.
- ↑ "Va. Sheriff to Fire Deputy in Sex Harassment Case." The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext): b.02. National Newspapers Core. Nov 24 1992. Web. 12 Mar. 2012.
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