Rescue crews search river in Stafford County for teen
Fire and rescue crews searched the Rappahannock River on Sunday for a teenager who reportedly drowned while wading or swimming during a Hyattsville church picnic in Stafford County.
“There’s nothing positive to report. We’re in full recovery mode,” county fire and rescue spokesman Lt. Mark Stone said Sunday evening. Other members of the picnic told rescue personnel the 17-year-old went under the water about 3 p.m.
“We’ve closed down the parks and we’re staying here until we are successful in the recovery,” Stone said. – Dan Genz
U.S. Marshals arrest three in Manassas homicide
U.S. Marshals arrested three men late Thursday in Meridien, Conn., is the death of a Manassas man outside a shopping center May 31. Marshals apprehended Sebastian Cortez Hernandez, Jose Antonio Ontiveros, 27, and Santos Ontiveros, 24, on charges of murder and use of a firearm in a felony. Hernandez had previously been deported in October 2003, after being arrested on gang charges, police said.
Police said a man in a group of about 10 people shot Omar Florencio Vazquez, 24, several times outside the Grant Avenue Shopping Center on May 31. Vazquez had been stopping for food with two brothers and a cousin, when he recognized a group of men as people who had beaten him up two weeks earlier. He was shot as he tried to walk away, Manassas City police said.
– Dan Genz
Man killed in search of Silver Spring home
A man was killed Friday during a police search of a Silver Spring apartment building.
Officer Nathan Kane entered a back bedroom, where he encountered Hector Jose Marinero, 25, of Gaithersburg, who was armed with a gun, police said. Marinero was shot; he was later pronounced dead at an area hospital.
Kane and fellow officer Cory Brodzinski have been placed on leave while an investigation into the incident is conducted. The Medical Examiner’s Office in D.C. will conduct an autopsy, police said.
– Dan Genz
