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2004

Events that took place in Fairfax County in 2004:

January

• January 7 – 30-year-old Loan P. Nguyen and her 22-month-old daughter Ashley N. Ton are murdered by Dinh N. Pham following a botched burglary attempt at the family home at 2877 Lester Lee Court in Falls Church.^[1][2]
• January 26 – Lieutenant Colonel Suzanne G. Devlin is named acting Chief of Police by County Executive Anthony H. Griffin, replacing J. Thomas Manger.^[3]

February

• February 29 – 28-year-old Fitsum Gebreegziabher is struck and killed in Springfield by Josuel P. Galdino. Gebreegziabher becomes entangled with the Mitsubishi Montero driven by Galdino, who leaves the scene and drags Gebreegziabher 8½ miles to his home in the Lorton Station neighborhood of Lorton.^[4]

March

• March 5 – The resignation of Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Daniel A. Domenech becomes effective.^[5]
• March 5 – Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Kathleen H. MacKay sentences 31-year-old Marlo L. Small to 38 years in prison for murdering his ex-wife Michele I. Quiles as she sat in her car in Annandale on April 24, 2002.^[6]

April

• April 3 – Fairfax County Police Captain Jack Hurlock takes over command of the West Springfield District Station from Captain Dorian Portee.^[7]
• April 4 – 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.^[8][9]

May

• May 16 – 17-year-old Herndon High School student Jose Sandoval is shot and killed in Herndon by Alirio Reyes, a 26-year-old member of the MS-13 youth organization.^[10][11]
• May 20 – Mike Campbell is named the new principal of Westfield High School following the departure of Dale Rumberger to open the new South County High School.^[12]

June

• June 7 – 50-year-old Scott LeClaire settles an argument over money with his 52-year-old brother Randall by fatally shooting Randall in his home at 2506 Massey Court in Huntington.^[13][14]
• June 10 – 20-year-old Kathryn A. Southard is killed when her 1992 Subaru Legacy is struck by a 2003 Ford F-150 pickup truck driven by 25-year-old Oscar Rene Bonilla as she attempts to make a left turn onto Old Keene Mill Road from Byron Avenue in Springfield. Bonilla crashes into a tree and runs away from the scene.^[15]
• June 13 – Six-year-old Sean Campbell runs into the street on Tis Well Drive in the River Farms neighborhood of Alexandria, where he is struck and killed by a Fairfax Connector bus driven by Santos Ruiz.^[16][17]

July

• July 11 – An early morning fire at 6915 Mary Caroline Circle in the Victoria Crossings condominium complex in Alexandria kills 68-year-old Sadia B. Mohammad, her 36-year-old daughter Anisa A. Yassin, and 16-year-old Iftu J. Salah.^[18][19]
• July 12 – David M. Rohrer is appointed Chief of the Fairfax County Police Department.^[20]
• July 24 – 16-year-old Luke Tiahrt hangs himself at the family home at 9360 Tovito Drive in Fairfax.^[21]

August

• August 30 – While attempting to cross Richmond Highway near Fernedge Lane in Lorton, 25-year-old Marcus Bigsby is struck by three vehicles and mortally injured. Bigsby is taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital, where he dies.^[22][23]

October

• October 22 – After assaulting his former girlfriend at gunpoint, then stabbing her, 38-year-old security guard Esdibar Rosero commits suicide at the Tysons Corner Center by shooting himself in the back of the Lenkersdorfer jewelry store.^[24]
• October 22 – Josuel P. Galdino is sentenced to 16 months in prison by Judge Arthur B. Vieregg for unintentionally killing Fitsum Gebreegziabher on February 29.^[25]
• October 26 – Supervisor Gerry Connolly is found not guilty of leaving the scene of a May 14 accident in Tysons Corner.^[26]

November

• November 6 – Captain Susan H. Culin takes over command of the Fairfax County Police Department's Sully District Station from Captain Bill Gulsby.^[27]
• November 14 – A fire in his first-floor condominium at 1432 Northgate Square in Reston kills 53-year-old Jeffrey Kerrigan.^[28][29]
• November 25 – Darius T. Hicks fatally shoots 21-year-old Shawndre N. Fulton, who was eight months pregnant with his daughter, in the Mount Vernon Woods Park in Alexandria.^[30]

December

• December 4 – 35-year-old Glenn Donsanto dies in a fire at his father's home at 1925 Batten Hollow Road in Vienna.^[31][32]
• December 6 – 14-year-old Rody J. Phillips stabs and mortally wounds 60-year-old clerk Sun Ku Kwon at the 7-Eleven at 5638 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy in Alexandria.^[33][34] Kwon is airlifted to Inova Fairfax Hospital, where he dies.^[34]
• December 9 – 26-year-old Oscar Omar Ramos Hernandez pleads guilty in Circuit Court to the kidnapping, rape, and murder of 24-year-old Diana Garcia in Falls Church on August 13, 2001.^[35]
• December 23 – Macerich announces their planned purchase of the Wilmorite real estate investment trust, whose portfolio includes Tysons Corner Center.^[36]
• December 27 – A fire at the parsonage at the Maranatha Baptist Church at 3511 Annandale Road in Annandale kills 42-year-old Terry Maye.^[37]
• December 30 – 25-year-old James L. Ridley is shot to death in his car during a failed robbery by James A. Erby in the parking lot of the Subway in the Spring Mall Center in Springfield.^[38][39]

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