17-year-old charged with shooting teen in Fairfax County

By WTOP Staff
May 20, 2015 | 11:35 AM

WASHINGTON — Police have charged a 17-year-old in the shooting of another teenager Tuesday afternoon in Fairfax County.

Police say it happened after 5:30 p.m. on Holly Avenue near the Fairfax County Government Center. The victim is expected to survive; police say he and the two suspects originally sought in the case knew each other.

A 17-year-old from Manassas has been arrested and charged with malicious wounding and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, the police say. He’s in custody; police say there are no outstanding suspects.

Patients could see smaller incisions, shorter recoveries thanks to U.Va. Health robotic heart surgery program

By Neal Augenstein
August 24, 2026 | 3:15 PM

U.Va. Health has launched Virginia's first dedicated robotic heart surgery program as new technology and procedures offer patients less invasive alternatives to traditional open-heart surgery. "We're using a series of robotic instruments that are inserted into the patient and controlled by the surgeon, which allow us to access the heart and do operations that are traditionally done by opening the chest," said Dr. Michael Ibrahim, director of the robotic cardiac surgery program at U.Va. Health. Typically, after traditional open-heart surgery, "patients can't use their arms to get up and out of a chair, they can't carry more than 10 pounds for several weeks or months," Ibrahim said. Conversely, "There are really no restrictions after robotic cardiac surgery apart from what you feel able to do."

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