Man dies six days after fight
A Stafford man who suffered a head injury in an April 5 hotel party fight, then refused family members’ requests to seek medical treatment, died six days later at his home Friday evening, the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office reported. When emergency crews responded to Casey Welbourn’s home, the 22-year-old had already died.
The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office charged Stephan Rodney-Tyler, 19, with first-degree murder and one count of robbery. Rodney-Tyler had some of Welbourn’s personal items at the time of his arrest Saturday, sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy said. – Dan Genz
Man held on arson charges in Woodbridge blaze
A Woodbridge man has been booked on felony arson charges for starting a fire at a neighbor’s mobile home trailer hours after he was asked to leave a party at the trailer, Prince William County police said.
Atilano Santos Sampoyo, 36, reportedly ignited a fire in the trailer as seven men were inside, including one who was severely injured and needed to be flown to a regional burn center. As men tried to escape the trailer, they tripped over the wounded man and pulled him outside.
Authorities charged Sampoyo with arson of an occupied dwelling, aggravated malicious wounding, five counts of attempted malicious wounding, and burglary with intent to commit arson. He is being held without bond pending a May 21 hearing. – Dan Genz
Another body found in canal
A body was found in the C&O Canal below the Whitehurst Freeway in Northwest, D.C. police said.
Police received a report of a body found in the canal near the 3600 block of K Street at 4 p.m. Monday. The body was transported to the medical examiner to determine the cause of death. Authorities have not released the sex or race of the body.
It was the second body found in the C&O Canal in less than a month. In March, the body of Joanne Peterson Robinson, 77, of Bethesda, was found near Chain Bridge and Canal roads in Northwest Washington.
