This Day In Fractured Fairfax:November 16
- November 16, 1955 – The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors votes 5-1 to cancel the $950,000 purchase of the Annandale Water Company.
- November 16, 1974 – 20-year-old independent recreational agricultural products salesman and general scumbag Robert A. Poole fatally shoots 34-year-old Donald S. Monsky and seriously injures David Pitt in Great Falls when he decides to rob the two men rather than sell them four pounds of marijuana.
- November 16, 1979 – 25-year-old George Cooper is killed at the construction site of the Glenwood Manor townhouses in Springfield when the unshored 16-foot-deep trench he is helping to lay a sewer pipe in collapses, burying him under three feet of dirt. Despite frantic digging by rescue workers and other construction workers at the site, Cooper is dead by the time he is pulled out of the ground 75 minutes later.
- November 16, 1987 – While making a controlled buy of narcotics in a parking lot in Bailey's Crossroads, Fairfax County Police officer Irene M. Boyle fatally shoots 27-year-old unarmed recreational pharmaceutical salesman Jose Carlos Rodriguez in the head when he surprises her. Rodriguez is taken to Alexandria Hospital, where he dies.
- November 16, 2006 – 39-year-old Anthony L. Burdis is sentenced to life in prison plus 23 years by Judge M. Langhorne Keith for the November 3, 2005 attack that killed 53-year-old John M. Shirley and seriously wounded Mallori Scott in her condominium at 12731 Fair Crest Court in Fairfax.
- November 16, 2008 – 22-year-old Erika Yancey is stabbed to death outside her apartment at 2320 Dulles Station Boulevard in Herndon by Marcus Williams.
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