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In a tragic incident in Virginia, police fatally shot a man who was reportedly attacking his family with a 10-inch dagger reminiscent of a meat cleaver.
The victims included a woman in her 30s, identified as the man’s daughter, and another woman in her 50s, believed to be the attacker’s wife.
Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis reported that the department received two emergency calls shortly after 5 a.m. on Monday. One call came from a neighbor alarmed by the noise from the apartment, while the other was from a resident who discovered his father-in-law assaulting his wife—who is also the man’s daughter—and his mother-in-law.
“The son-in-law was outside, clearing snow from his car when he heard the disturbance,” Davis explained. “He rushed back inside to find his wife had been stabbed.”
Upon entering, the son-in-law witnessed his father-in-law attacking his own wife. The attacker then turned his aggression toward the son-in-law.
The chaos — the “bloodbath,” as Davis described it — was surrounding the younger couple’s 1-year-old baby, who was not physically harmed in the vicious attack.
Officers arrived minutes later and found the father-in-law stabbing the younger man. When he refused multiple commands to drop his knife, one of the officers opened fire, killing him.
The daughter was pronounced dead on the scene, while the man’s wife and son-in-law were rushed to a hospital in “grave, grave condition.” The wife was pronounced dead at the hospital.
“Thankfully the baby was unharmed,” Davis said. “To desxrive this scene as bloody is an understatement.”
Davis said there have been no prior calls for service at the apartment, and officers are working to make next-of-kin notifications and locate family members to take custody of the baby.