November 30th, 2010 – 4:10pm
The Washington Examiner
By Emily Babay
Neighbors of a 2-year-old Falls Church girl had no answers for why the toddler’s grandmother who often baby-sat the child would throw her from a six-story parking garage, killing her.
Fairfax police offered no motive for the actions of 50-year-old Carmela Dela Rosa. But they said they were sure that the child’s death was intentionally caused by Dela Rosa, and charged her with murder.
Angelyn Ogdoc was severely injured after being thrown from a walkway connecting the Tysons Corner Center mall with a parking garage at about 7 p.m. Monday, Fairfax County police said.
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November 3rd, 2010 – 4:28pm
The Washington Examiner
By Emily Babay
The man accused of killing federal intern Chandra Levy told a former cellmate that he was responsible for her death, but denied sexually assaulting her, the cellmate testified Thursday.
“I killed that bitch, but I didn’t rape her,” Ingmar Guandique allegedly told cellmate Armando Morales at a Kentucky prison in 2006.
Morales’ testimony about his conversations with Guandique while the two were cellmates at Big Sandy prison is the most incriminating evidence thus far in Guandique’s murder trial in D.C. Superior Court.
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November 2nd, 2010 – 5:50pm
When several D.C.-area military buildings were fired at in a series of overnight shootings, I created a map with the locations of the buildings, descriptions of the incidents and links to my stories.
View Military Shootings in Northern Virginia in a larger map
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