Female bandit strikes again
The female bank robber featured on Tuesday’s Crime & Punishment page in The Examiner has struck for a third time in less than two weeks, Fairfax County police said. This time the woman entered a BB&T bank in Centreville on Tuesday wearing a black and white scarf around her face. She passed a note implying that she had a weapon, demanded money and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash. She was described as being about 5 feet 4 inches tall and heavyset.
10-month-old girl dies
D.C. police are investigating the death of an infant in Northwest Washington. Around 6 p.m. Tuesday, a caretaker carrying the 10-month-old girl flagged down an officer on the 4500 block of 17th Street NW and said the baby girl wasn’t breathing. The officer called for medical assistance and began CPR. The girl was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead around 9:30 p.m. The woman told police the baby was found unconscious in the family residence in the Crestwood neighborhood.
