Jets force down pilot lost over D.C.
Fighter jets forced down a student pilot who flew into Washington’s restricted airspace Tuesday afternoon. Secret Service officials said they believed the pilot did not intend to harm the White House or any D.C. facilities. The student pilot of the Cessna plane was on his first cross-country solo flight. The plane was forced to land in Gaithersburg.
Teens charged with racial vandalism
Four teens were charged with vandalizing an elementary school with racially charged words and symbols. Prince William County police said the teens arranged squares of sod on a parking lot to form a 30-foot KKK and a swastika. The teens, ages 14 through 17, are both white and black. They attended Stonewall Jackson High School.
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Woman, child stabbed in Falls Church
Fairfax County police said a woman and a girl were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after they apparently were stabbed. Authorities responded Tuesday afternoon to a report of a stabbing on the 3400 block of Glen Carlyn Drive in Falls Church. A man was later taken into custody after being found in a nearby apartment building, police said.
3-year-old dies while ‘wrestling’
A 25-year-old Waldorf man was charged in the death of a 3-year-old boy he was wrestling with. Myron Gibson, the boyfriend of the child’s mother, was charged with child abuse resulting in death. Police said he was wrestling with DeSean Wade, and a teenager called authorities after the toddler “failed to wake up.”
– Compiled by Scott McCabe
