This Day In Fractured Fairfax:August 22
- August 22, 1974 – 26-year-old Felix K. Rorls is shot to death by Fairfax County Police Officer John R. Mueller at a 7-Eleven in Herndon. Rorl's death precipitates a civil disturbance centered around the nearby Dulles Park Shopping Center, with a crowd estimated at 300 people breaking windows and throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails. 75 officers of the FCPD, the Herndon Police Department, and the U. S. Park police are called in to deal with the situation, which is defused by negotiations by police officials, Acting County Executive Douglas Harman, and Commonwealth's Attorney Robert F. Horan, Jr..
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