Teen’s death apparent homicideFairfax County police are investigating the death of 18-year-old who died after seeking medical treatment at Inova Springfield Healthplex.
Police said Wyatt Campbell’s death is an apparent homicide.
Campbell, of Alexandria, went to the hospital at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday with trauma wounds from an altercation earlier that day, police said. He died at about 11 p.m.
An autopsy will be conducted. Police have not identified any suspects in the case.
‘Silver Spring rapist’ gets life sentence
The rapist thought to have terrorized Silver Spring in the 1980s and ’90s and convicted of sexual assaults in New York and New Jersey has been sentenced to life in prison.
The so-called “Silver Spring rapist,” 63-year-old Fletcher A. Worrell was sentenced Friday in Montgomery County Circuit Court.
Prosecutors believe he may have as many as 20 victims in the Silver Spring area, but has only been charged in this case. Worrell was convicted of raping at knifepoint in April 1991 a Silver Spring woman that he found sleeping in a bed with her 7-year-old son.
Sex offender, 79, accused of fondling girl
A 79-year-old registered sex offender was arrested on sexual battery charges for inappropriately touching a teenager he lured into his car, Prince William County police said.
Police said James R. Leonard, of Flotilla Way in Woodbridge, approached a 15-year-old girl at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday as she was walking to Freedom High School. Leonard allegedly told the girl he would give her a ride and fondled her while she was in the vehicle.
The girl does not know Leonard and it’s unclear why she got into the vehicle, police said.
Leonard was convicted in 1997 of abduction for immoral purposes, according to the Virginia sex offender registry.
– Emily Babay
