Baby injured by falling TV
A 1-year-old child was severely injured Wednesday afternoon by a falling television, Fairfax County police said. When officers responded to the 4100 block of Chantilly Lace Court at about 1 p.m., the baby was unconscious, said Officer Tawny Wright, a police spokeswoman. The child was hospitalized in life-threatening condition. Wright said she didn’t know how large the television was or how it fell. Police believe the incident was a “tragic accident” but are still investigating, she said.
Killer gets rehearing in 2008 slaying
The full Virginia Court of Appeals has agreed to review a panel decision that affirmed a man’s conviction in a 2008 Manassas shooting death. The court granted a rehearing for Sebastian Cortez-Hernandez, who was convicted in Prince William County of fatally shooting Omar Vasquez. A three-judge panel of the appeals court ruled in April that the trial judge did not make a reversible error in refusing to allow Cortez-Hernandez’s defense attorney to cross-examine a witness a second time after a prosecutor elicited new information during re-direct examination. Court records say the prosecutor didn’t ask a witness about the fight and shooting itself until re-direct examination.
Two other men pleaded guilty in Vasquez’s death.
– Emily Babay
