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An Arlington man faces up to life in prison after he admitted to stabbing his daughter and his wife in a psychosis-related episode in Pentagon City.

Leonardo Antonio Reyes, now 24, has pleaded guilty in Arlington County Circuit Court to one count each of second-degree murder and aggravated malicious wounding, both stemming from a Dec. 14, 2024 incident.


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On the fifth anniversary of an unsolved Ballston homicide, police are renewing requests for tips as the victim’s family continues to offer a $50,000 reward.

Today (Friday) marks five years since police were dispatched to an apartment building on the 800 block of N. Randolph Street in early 2020. They found 24-year-old Scott Ratigan inside his bedroom, “suffering from trauma to the upper body.”


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An Arlington woman has died after a double stabbing in Pentagon City the night of Dec. 14.

Iman Gaye, 26, died at the hospital early this morning, according to Arlington County police. A young child who was also stabbed and seriously injured that night, near an entrance to the Target store, was released from the hospital on Dec. 23, according to ACPD.


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An Alexandria resident has been arrested and charged in the murder of two people, including an Arlington man.

The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office announced that 18-year-old Marlyn Medrano-Ortiz, a suspected MS-13 member, has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder for a double homicide in Sterling in August.


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A long-time detective in the Arlington County Police Department retired this week.

Det. Rosa Ortiz served her last day on the force yesterday (Thursday) following decades of Arlington sex crime and homicide investigations, including the 2009 murder of Carl Diener and the 1999 murder of Eva Veliz.


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An Arlington man and his girlfriend were killed in a shooting in Loudoun County yesterday.

Diego Alexander Woollett, 22, was one of two people shot and killed in the area of Huntington Square in Sterling early Thursday morning, police said.


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A man has been convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend in a Virginia Square apartment last year.

The gruesome crime happened around 5 a.m. on June 19, 2023, at the Terwilliger Place apartments at 3445 Washington Blvd.


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A woman has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars for killing a man in the parking lot of an Arlington Burger King in 2022.

A judge on Friday sentenced 48-year-old April Puckett to seven years of imprisonment for second-degree murder and three years for using a firearm in commission of a felony. This was less than the maximum sentence of 13 years that Puckett agreed to when she pleaded guilty in November.


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An East Falls Church woman was killed by her husband in December in a murder-suicide, Arlington County police announced today.

Maria T. MacKnight worked as an acupuncturist, according to her website. Police say she and her husband, Gregory Cunningham, both died of “intentional carbon monoxide poisoning” in early December, at their house on N. Powhatan Street.


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(Updated on 3/7/24) Arlington police are investigating what might be the county’s first homicide of 2024.

Police were dispatched to the apartment building above the Whole Foods store on the 500 block of 12th Street S. in Pentagon City around 4:15 p.m. for a report of gunshots fired in a 15th floor apartment.


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A grim anniversary quietly passed last month: four years since the still-unsolved murder of Scott Ratigan.

The 24-year-old was found dead with “trauma to the upper body” in his Ballston apartment in January 2020. The 911 caller reported a strong smell of bleach in the apartment, according to scanner traffic at the time.


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