Skip to main content

Fairfax Co. woman dead, husband hospitalized after shooting

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to clarify the location where the shooting happened.

A woman is dead and her husband is in the hospital with serious injuries Sunday morning after a double shooting in Fairfax County, Virginia, police say.

Officers were dispatched to a home at Central Park Circle in Mount Vernon, around 3:15 a.m.



They found a husband and wife both with life-threatening gunshot wounds. The woman died at the hospital and the man has life-threatening injuries, police say.

It’s not clear yet who fired the gun, but police tell WTOP they believe the incident to be domestic in nature. Police said there’s no threat to the community.

March through Falls Church honors MLK Jr. and the city’s Black history

Hundreds marched through Falls Church, Virginia, on Monday morning to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and the city’s own part in civil rights history. “I believe that putting feet on the ground is the way to honor Martin Luther King,” Edwin Bancroft Henderson II, founder of the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation, told WTOP.
Read Next Story