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Two Dead After Eden Center Shooting

by ARLnow.com | July 15, 2012 at 12:17 am | 6,443 views | 54 Comments

(Updated at 5:40 a.m.) Falls Church police are investigating a shooting at the Eden Center.

We’re told the shooting happened around 10:00 p.m. According to Falls Church police spokeswoman Susan Finarelli, one male was shot and was pronounced dead on the scene. Another male died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Eden Center is located at 6751 Wilson Boulevard.

d

As long as I can still get pho
Jerome

Does this mean I can’t play illegal poker today? Damn man
NoVapologist

The last time I was at Eden Center was probably 10 years ago. But I remember it because I went to grab a little lunch and had to go through a metal detector to enter the restaurant.
Jason G.

Wow have you checked out their website?

http://edencenter.com/

“Washington DC’s Premier destination for Vietnamese Cuisine”

Uh….yeah.
- Jason S.
  
  Where else would you go for Vietnamese cuisine?
  - Jason G.
    
    Tons of place it seems
    
    https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=N&tab=lw&q=vietnamese+food
    - d
      
      Ur wasting time and money if u get Vietnamese food anywhere else
- Clarendon
  
  My virus SW says there was a trojan on that edencenter site, FYI.
Neutrino

This is a tragic event. These comments are horrific. I’m a little nervous to go to Seven Corners now.
- East Falls Church
  
  When I first moved to the EFC area back in the early 90′s there was at least one shooting per year at The Eden Center…
Tom Smart

Why don’t you leave the black humor where it belongs, inside you peahead brains. Is it possible/probable that these were not nice people and that we’re all probably better off without them? Yes, probably. But to joke about their deaths is uncalled for.
- Mike
  
  Sadly, this is typical. If you call someone dumb, that’s an attack and the comment is removed. Make jokes about someone’s death, or something else just as horrible, and the comment stays.
- Chris
  
  who joked about their death?
  - Mike
    
    d, Jerome, and I think there was one other that was removed.
    - http://cache.ohinternet.com/images/2/24/I_see_what_you_did_there_super.jpg BoredHouseWife
      
      maybe they weren’t joking. maybe they are naturally cold hearted people.
    - Joe
      
      soo…. they were removed then.
      - Mike
        
        Uh, no…. 1143pm and they’re still there.
CW

Close comments?
Arlington Neighbors

I am sad to see such negative comments (even if joking) about Eden Center, and they seem unjustified, given our experience.

Our family frequents Eden Center (aka, “Little VietNam” to the kids) at least a couple times each month, as we have for years. We take our out-of-town guests there as well, and it has been “all good”. Over the years we have regularly read police blotter-like reports of crime activity there, including violence, but I have yet to hear of an incident involving a “tourist” (as one might refer to us there). Of course, we are not hanging out in smokier areas long after the bubble drink shops have shut down, or playing dice or cards in the back of the arcades.

Enjoying a meal in any of the restaurants, shopping for grocery, and promenading among the crowds with bubble drink in hand are undoubtedly still quite safe, as they always have been. And we are ALWAYS parking around the back to avoid the crowded lot, and have never felt unsafe.
- T:GEOA
  
  What do I get for $10?
  - Your Mom
    
    Any ting u wan
- TJ
  
  Bubble Drink? Intrigued..please explain.
  - drax
    
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_tea
JohnB2

Ease up people, news sources are reporting this as a potential domestic violence case. Nothing to see here, move along.
Joe Hoya

Big trouble in Little Vietnam
Spoiler

I quit going there after I saw Christopher Walken with a red bandanna tied around his head in one of the gambling rooms.
Garden City

Is the shooting considered to be in Falls Church, Fairfax Co. or Arlington Co.? Is Arlington Co.’s murder-free streak still intact?
- drax
  
  It’s in Falls Church.
  - Healthy Canadian
    
    Why is it on ARLnow? Falls Church is a slum.
    - CW
      
      Truth bomb.
    - drax
      
      Is that why Forbes declared Falls Church the richest city in America?
      - Capitalist Tool
        
        Is that why Carlos Slim is the richest man in the world even though most people in Mexico are poor?
    - TJ
      
      Pretty sure many arlingtonians lay claim to everything this side of 7 corners, including BJs, Target, Home Depot and that brand-spanking new Chick-fil-a, which was also reported here. I probably spend more retail dollars there than any place inside Arlington proper.
      - Juanita de Talmas
        
        More than at the Ballston Common Mall? I find that hard to believe.
      - where?
        
        My google alerts went off at seeing “BJ” and “spanking” in the same post . . .
      - meh
        
        Ha!
      - Mary-Austin
        
        Where is there a new Chick-fil-a???
      - East Falls Church
        
        In between the new Safeway and Petsmart/Target
sifa

A couple of years ago I was hanging out in Hanoi, Vietnam, at an outdoor food court. My friends and I were having post-dinner beers and, being Westerners, stuck out a bit. We had been traveling throughout Vietnam for a few weeks, and given America’s history in the country, we were trying to be as respectful as possible. An older (Vietnam Era) gentleman noticed us and walked over to us intent on having a bit of an exchange. I was a little nervous due to the fact that he likely didn’t have terribly fond memories of Americans when he was younger and he was clearly inebriated.

“Where you from?” he gruffly asked.

I smiled nervously and shared, “USA, Virginia, Arlington.”

He nodded, and said approvingly, “Eden Center,” and turned around and walked off.
- Spoiler
  
  Charlie collecting intel.
  - Dude Where’s My Car
    
    lol
- KalashniKEV
  
  …and then he set punji sticks outside of your hotel room.
- MeLikeBuffet
  
  In Hanoi, isnt it always Viet Nam era?
  - Dude Where’s My Car
    
    +1 Insightful
- Bon Air
  
  Is that a true story?
  - sifa
    
    100%
Westover

The place has gone downhill ever since Zayre’s closed.
- ACDC Hack
  
  “The place has gone downhill ever since Zayre’s closed”
  
  I think that it was an “Ames”…..
  - Westover
    
    It was. But it was a Zayre’s before that.
    
    See, Ames was the first step of the decline.
    - East Falls Church
      
      So Ames is a “gateway” store leading to decrepitude ??
      
      Good thing they are not around anymore !!
JimPB

Eden Center is fine. The biggest problem for customers: A well filled and busy parking area.

The large space that Zayre’s once filled there will soon be occupied by a New York based Chinese grocery. Hmmmmm good.

The two persons who died there were targeted. No danger to others.
- drax
  
  Oh, if they were targeted, then nothing could go wrong!
  - faintly progressive
    
    well if the folks trying to take away our freedoms would only stop trying to ban telescopic sights
faintly progressive

“The two persons who died there were targeted. No danger to others.”

kind of like most homicides in DC.

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