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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Community Discusses Recent Assaults, Proposed Woodson Security Fence

Officials provide information, receive community input after two sexual assaults in the Braddock District.

In response to two recent sexual assaults in the Braddock District, Supervisor John Cook held a community awareness meeting at Robinson Secondary School Monday. Representatives from the Fairfax County Police Department and Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) joined more than 100 concerned residents in a review of the incidents and discussion of safety procedures in place and proposed. A 24-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in the woods off Commonwealth Boulevard in Kings Park West on March 14. Less than a week later, on March 19, a 16-year-old W.T. Woodson High School student was assaulted while walking home from school near Frost Middle School. Capt. Joe Hill of the West Springfield District Police Station said increased police …

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Police Need Your Help in Kings Park West Sexual Assault

The victim was attacked along Commonwealth Boulevard.

A woman was walking along Commonwealth Boulevard near Richardson Drive Wednesday night when she was grabbed from behind by an unknown assailant and dragged into the trees. The man, described by Fairfax County Police as white, about 5-feet 7-inches tall, was wearing a sweatshirt. He used a knife to threaten the 24-year-old woman. He sexually assaulted her at around 10 p.m. The woman was able to go for help when her attacker heard a noise, got spooked and fled. Police need your help. Anyone with information about this crime can contact Crime Solvers by phone at 1-866-411-TIPS/8477, e-mail at www.fairfaxcrimesolvers.org or text “TIP187” plus your message to CRIMES/274637. You can also call Fairfax County Police at 703-691-2131.

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Westy

8:59 pm on Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The man in the video doesn't match the picture of Michael Cosgrove that they have on the sex offender site though........ &nbsp more ›

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