This Day In Fractured Fairfax:October 5
- October 5, 1931 – 28-year-old well digger Melvin Stevens is unintentionally shot to death near his home in Vienna while searching for the assailant that had been firing shots at his house and that of a neighbor.
- October 5, 1949 – Two-year-old Michael E. Miller is killed at the Oakton home of his grandmother, Ethel Mauck, when an abandoned stove falls over on him, breaking his neck.
- October 5, 1984 – Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Barnard F. Jennings sentences Nancy L. Kantarian to 20 years in prison for killing her daughters on May 23, but suspends the sentence on the condition that Kantarian enter a mental hospital. During the sentencing, Judge Jennings tells Kantarian that "There is no need to punish you. You've been punished severely and will be for the rest of your life."
- October 5, 1989 – While his bus is stuck in traffic on Interstate 66, 12-year-old Longfellow Intermediate School seventh grader Stephen T. Carmichael suffers a cardiac arrest and is trapped for 25 minutes before he can be taken to an emergency clinic. He dies that afternoon.
- October 5, 2011 – 20-year-old Carol N. Lutsky beats and mortally injures her girlfriend's son, 11-month-old Nehemiah Williams, in her home in Vienna. Nehemiah is taken to the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he dies the next day.
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