Fairfax County police charged a 52-year-old woman with murder Monday after finding her husband shotto death in their Vienna-area home.
Police were called to the 1438 Crowell Road house on a report of a domestic dispute at about 2 a.m., where they found the body of Ronald Giguere, 60, shot in the upper body, according to Fairfax County Police Department spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell.
His wife, Mary Susan Giguere, was arrested after “interviews and discussions and further investigation” Monday, Caldwell said.
The homicide was not only a relatively rare occurrence for affluent Fairfax County, but also was completely unexpected in the sedate suburban neighborhood, which has a Vienna address despite its location north of the Dulles Toll Road.
The couple had two children, reportedly ages 12 and 14, as well as numerous animals that required animal control officers to come to the scene. Police would not comment on whether the children were in the house at the time of the shooting or where they were taken afterward.
Horses, goats, dogs, cats and birds were taken to the county’s animal shelter on West Ox Road, Caldwell said.
Neighbor Carleton Cotting, who said he sold the couple some Washington Redskins tickets last year, was awoken by the commotion Monday morning in spite of the wide space between the houses, which sit on at least two acres each. He said he knew very little about the Gigueres but saw no hints of problems between the two, describing them as friendly people.
“It tends to be a very quiet area with very few incidents in that particular neighborhood,” Caldwell said.
It is the county’s first apparent homicide since January, when police found the body of 35-year-old Odis M. Reyes Lazo dead of a gunshot wound to the upper body inside a Huntington-area home.
