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MANASSAS, Va. A Virginia man went on a shooting rampage Wednesday, wounding three family members and killing two other people before taking his own life, according to police and reports.
Asa Mitchell, 21, opened fire inside the family’s home in Manassas shortly before 6 p.m., wounding his 76-year-old grandmother, his 56-year-old mother, and his 16-year-old brother, according to NBC Washington.
The suspect’s father, Eric Mark Mitchell, 55, was killed in the home, the station said.
Asa then jumped into a Toyota Camry and fled the scene, crashing about 35 miles away from the house in Delaplane.
Photograph by Evy Mages
At a press conference earlier today, a reporter asked DC Mayor Muriel Bowser to characterize the Capitol Police’s response to yesterday’s insurrection at the US Capitol Building. She described it with one word: “failure.”
Bowser is now taking several measures of her own. She has called for a nonpartisan Congressional commission to investigate the security failures at the Capitol building. She’d also like the commission to examine why the federal law enforcement response was so much stronger during this summer’s George Floyd protests than it was yesterday.
Additionally, Bowser asked that control of the DC National Guard transfer to her. When the Capitol was finally secured yesterday, it was with the assistance of several factions of law enforcement: Virginia State Police, Arlington County Police, Prince William County Police, Fairfax County Police, Maryland State Police, Montgomery County Police, Prince George’s County Police, New Jersey St
Prince William County Commonwealthâs Attorney Amy Ashworth has found the police departmentâs use of deadly force in the Dec. 10 shooting of a 79-year-old Dumfries-area man as âboth justified and reasonable.â
According to an investigation conducted by her office, the five officers involved faced âimminent bodily harmâ as Kurtis Kay Frevert âraised his gun at the officers while walking towards them and saying, âshoot me.ââ
The Prince William County Police Department on Monday morning released the names of the officers involved and a detailed timeline of what happened that night.
Officers were called to Secret Grove Court in the Four Seasons community off Va. 234 at 7:14 p.m. after Frevertâs wife reported her husband was suicidal, making concerning statements and armed with a handgun.
Prince William outs officers names, patrol areas despite being cleared of wrongdoing
Updated at December 30, 2020 - Uriah Kiser
Five Prince William County police officers involved in a shooting outside Dumfries did nothing wrong, the county’s Commonwealth Attorney determined.
The officers were dispatched to the Four Seasons, a gated retirement community just off Route 234 at 7:15 p.m. December 10, after a woman reported her husband Kurtis Kay Frevert, 79, was armed with a gun and was threatening suicide.
With the information that the man fled his home, officers initiated a search, calling for assistance from a helicopter crew from neighboring Fairfax County, which located the man in some nearby woods.