Five Killed in D.C. Apparent Murder-Suicide

[Archae]

Why? :shrug:

Five Killed in D.C. Apparent Murder-Suicide
Sunday, December 25, 2005

GREAT FALLS, Va.

Police say five people have been found dead in apparent murder-suicide shootings outside Washington, D.C.

Officers found the bodies of three men and one woman in a house in Great Falls, Va., after responding to reports of gunfire this morning.

An investigation led officers to another house about ten miles away, where they found the body of a woman.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,179738,00.html

[gristy]

1. Here's a CBS link DUers might prefer

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/26/national/main1165380.shtml

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. "homes in two well-to-do suburbs of Washington"

What are the chances that they were in politics? 10-20% ?

[gardenista]

3. Very sad.

Looks like some kind of family dispute that got way out of hand.

[beam me up scottie]

4. Geez.

He even shot the dog several times.

[NJCher]

5. Merry Dysfunctional Christmas

Cher

[alfred e bush]

6. Guns dont kill people

crazy focked up dufus drunk doped u s citizens with easy gun access .....kill people

[UpInArms]

7. WP related: Man Kills Mother, 3 Others In Fairfax

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/25/AR2005122500771_pf.html

A man shot his mother to death in McLean yesterday, then headed for a secluded house in Great Falls, where he killed three more people before taking his own life, law enforcement sources said. The Christmas morning killings appeared to be the deadliest outbreak of violence in Fairfax County in many years.

The first shooting occurred on Lewinsville Road near Tysons Corner, and the subsequent killings were about eight miles away on Sycamore Springs Lane, a semirural neighborhood of large homes on heavily wooded five-acre lots, where neighbors cherish their privacy.

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Those killed at the Great Falls home, which is in the northwest corner of Fairfax near the Loudoun County line, were identified only as two men and a woman. Their relationships to each other and to Nathan Cheatham could not be learned last night.

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It was not clear which of the three people slain in the Great Falls house lived there. Neighbors said they believed that the owner was living overseas, possibly in the United Arab Emirates. They said they understood that one or more people had rented the house in the interim, perhaps several months ago. "There were a lot of cars coming and going," Alison De Wit said.

Records indicate that the owners of the house were or had been Peter and Kathryn M. McDevitt, who may have worked overseas. Property records indicate that the house was two stories and was built on a five-acre lot in 1977.

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[VADem11]

8. Sad

I live a minute away from the first victim and Great Falls isn't too far away. Crime is pretty rare around here so it's even more shocking.