This Day In Fractured Fairfax:January 16
- January 16, 1969 – 22-year-old James D. Stover is convicted of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing Francis P. Koerner with a bayonet during a fight at a McLean gas station on July 25, 1968.
- January 16, 1987 – 5-year-old Jedidiah Law burns to death in a fire at the family's home at 9924 Oak Creek Court in Oakton. Both Jedidiah's father William and Fairfax County firefighter Konrad Kurtz attempt to rescue the child, but are driven back by the smoke and intense heat of the blaze.
- January 16, 1998 – While leaving her job at DesignTech International, 36-year-old Sherry A. Culp is fatally shot in the head by an unknown assailant as she sits in her car in the parking lot at Dynatech and Cameron Brown Courts in the Fullerton Industrial Park in Springfield. Culp, who was 8 1/2 months pregnant, is taken to the Fairfax Hospital, where her baby Kelsey is delivered by emergency caesarian section, but the little girl dies 2 days later.
- January 16, 2003 – While sleeping in his bed at his home at 3150 Cedar Grove Drive in Fairfax, 18-year-old Christopher Campero is beaten to death by Milton P. Jurado. Jurado, along with two accomplices, then steal marijuana, some jewelry, and a video game system from Campero.
- January 16, 2017 – 32-year-old Mohammad Azim Doudzai is fatally shot by a Fairfax County police officer when he lunges at the police with a knife at his townhouse at 13316 Covered Wagon Lane in the McNair Farms neighborhood of Herndon. Doudzai had shot his two brothers, aged 37 and 23, when they attempted to mediate an argument between himself and his 28-year-old girlfriend, took his 29-year-old roommate hostage, then set the townhouse on fire before finally confronting the cops
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