WIFE OF GUNMAN IN VA SHOOTING FOUND DEAD

YESTERDAY, WHILE SEARCHING THE APARTMENT OF THE MOTORIST WHO SHOT THE ALEXANDRIA POLICE OFFICER TUESDAY NIGHT AND THEN KILLED HIMSELF, ARLINGTON COUNTY POLICE FOUND THE BODY OF THE HIS WIFE BEHIND THE BULLET RIDDLED DOOR OF A CLOSET.

AUTHORITIES SUSPECT THAT THE DECEASED MOTORIST, ROBERT K. HUI, 22, SHOT HIS WIFE, SARAH TEDROP, 19, TO DEATH BETWEEN MONDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. SOME TIME LAST MONTH, POLICE WERE CALLED TO THE SAME ADDRESS FOR A DOMESTIC DISPUTE. ACCORDING TO COURT RECORDS, THIS WAS ALSO THE TIME THAT THEY LEARNED HUI HAD "MULTIPLE FIREARMS" IN THE HOME.

HUI IS THE MOTORIST RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOOTING ALEXANDRIA OFFICER KYLE RUSSEL DURING A ROUTINE TRAFFIC STOP TUESDAY NIGHT, WHICH IN TURN CAUSED THE SHUT DOWN OF ONE OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA'S MAIN TRAFFIC ARTERIES, I-395.

ACCORDING TO REPORTS, HUI SHOT HIMSELF IN THE HEAD ABOUT TWO MILES NORTH OF WHERE HE WAS PULLED OVER AND WAS FOUND IN HIS LEXUS SPORT-UTILITY NEAR THE 14TH STREET BRIDGE.

THE INVESTIGATION OF THE DEATH OF TEDROP IS STILL UNDERWAY.

SOURCE: WASHINGTON POST

DC COP SHOOTS ATTACKER

AROUND 10 AM YESTERDAY MORNING, A D.C. POLICE OFFICER SHOT AND CRITICALLY WOUNDED A MAN AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED THE OFFICER IN THE 1500 BLOCK OF SEVENTH STREET NW.

THE ATTACK WAS SAID TO HAVE OCCURED WHILE THE FEMALE OFFICER WAS CHECKING FOR SQUATTERS IN THE VACANT APARTMENT COMPLEX OF KELSEY GARDENS ACCORDING TO ASSISTANT D.C. POLICE CHIEF ALFRED DURHAM.

"UPON ENTERING ONE OF THE APARTMENTS, ONE OF OUR OFFICERS ENCOUNTERED A MALE. THE MALE JUMPED UP AND CHARGED THE OFFICER, AT WHICH TIME SHE DISCHARGED SEVERAL ROUNDS, STRIKING THE INDIVIDUAL TWO TIMES," SAID DURHAM.

THE MAN WAS TAKEN TO HOWARD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION WITH WOUNDS TO THE FACE AND ABDOMEN. THE OFFICER WAS ALSO TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR A LEG INJURY THAT AUTHORITIES SAY SHE ENCOUNTERED DURING THE SCUFFLE.

AS OF NOW, THERE IS NO ANSWER AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THE MAN HAD A WEAPON.

KELSEY GARDENS IS SCHEDULED FOR REDEVELOPMENT, ACCORDING TO ADVISORY NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISIONER, ALEXANDER PADRO. THE WOMAN WHO PREVIOUSLY RENTED THE APARTMENT WHERE THE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE WAS EVICTED IN JULY OF THIS YEAR. PADRO COMMENTED SAYING THAT HE BELIEVES THE WOMAN'S SON, THE SHOOTING VICTIM, HAD BEEN STAYING THERE ILLEGALLY SINCE THEN.

SOURCE: WASHINGTON POST