Jury selection began this morning (Monday) in the postponed trial against a Herndon man accused by prosecutors of concocting a scheme with his family’s au pair to frame a stranger in the fatal stabbing of his wife.
Brendan Banfield is charged with aggravated murder in the February 2023 killings of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at the Banfields’ home in northern Virginia. He has pleaded not guilty in the case.
The federal government is now leveling its own criminal charge against the man accused of a recent murder in Reston.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia has charged 23-year-old Marvin Fernando Morales Ortez with possessing a firearm as someone who is “illegally” present in the U.S.
A Reston man was released from the custody of the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday (Dec. 17) less than 24 hours before allegedly killing another man, police said.
After a nearly two-hour manhunt, 23-year-old Marvin Fernando Morales-Ortez was arrested Wednesday afternoon and charged with one count of second degree murder — a felony that carries a maximum of 40 years in prison.
A man was fatally shot in south Reston this morning (Wednesday), prompting an extensive police search for another man believed to be the suspect.
Fairfax County police officers were dispatched to the 12300 block of Fan Shell Court in the Cocquina Cluster around 11:49 a.m. after a 911 caller reported that his mother had arrived at the house and found it to be “a mess,” suggesting a possible break-in, according to scanner traffic.
More than four years after the body of Maryland resident Tafari “Trey” Nadhim was found in Hybla Valley, Fairfax County police are still searching for those responsible for his death.
Nadhim is believed to have been shot and killed in the early morning hours on July 5, 2021 — hours after attending an Independence Day block party. His body was located three days after his death in the 7800 block of Janna Lee Avenue.
Fairfax County police continue to search for a man accused of fatally shooting another man at a strip mall in Bailey’s Crossroads more than two years ago.
Javon Antonio Reid, a 34-year-old from Maryland, has been on the run ever since the May 7, 2023 shooting, the Fairfax County Police Department said Friday (Nov. 14).
A Virginia State Police trooper will not face criminal charges after a teen was shot with his gun in Kings Park West earlier this year.
There is no evidence supporting the idea that the trooper shot the teen. Rather, the teen appears to have disarmed the trooper during a scuffle and accidentally shot himself, Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano announced yesterday (Thursday).
The suspect behind a recent shooting in the Herndon area that killed a student from Herndon High School is also a juvenile, Fairfax County police say.
The unnamed “juvenile male suspect” has been charged with second degree murder, using a firearm in the commission of a felony and shooting from a vehicle, the Fairfax County Police Department announced on Saturday (Oct. 25).
Two men on opposite ends of the age spectrum pleaded guilty yesterday (Monday) to manslaughter for separate fatal shootings, the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano announced this morning.
Herndon resident Ismael Cruz Delcid, now 20, was arrested in March 2024 and charged with second-degree murder after shooting 14-year-old Michai Malave outside the Sonesta Extended Stay Suites in the McNair area south of Herndon.
An Alexandria man who shot another man during a botched robbery in Bailey’s Crossroads will spend the next decade behind bars.
Abner Neftali Selen Barrera, 26, was sentenced Friday (Oct. 17) to 10 years of active incarceration for his role in the incident, which left the other man with non-life-threatening injuries.
