Posted on 10/10/2009 8:03:26 AM PDT by La Lydia
It was shortly after midnight, and the Fairfax County couple were fast asleep in their quiet Oak Hill neighborhood. That's when three shadowy figures suddenly began pummeling them -- and one was wielding a machete. The beating became bloody. Then the silent home invaders left. That's when the homeowner screaming for help out the window of his second-floor master bedroom sparked calls to 911, and then an intense police investigation that resulted in the arrests of two men and the ongoing search for a third, Fairfax police said Friday.
Police think that the couple's 23-year-old daughter complained to some friends after fighting with her parents. But they do not think she knew that her friends would burst into the brick colonial home on Cinnamon Oaks Court near West Ox Road and attack her parents...
The victims "sustained serious injuries . . . head and upper-body trauma," although they were not life-threatening, said a Fairfax police spokeswoman...
Because the victims weren't fatally wounded by the machete, investigators surmised that the attackers did not intend to kill them. Police do not think the invasion was gang-related.
Three Herndon men were charged with malicious wounding in the attack. Rolando Miranda-Perez, 18, of the 1000 block of Saber Lane, and Noe Eli Alvarado-Chopin, 22, of the 13300 block of Parcher Avenue, were arrested Thursday and are being held in the Fairfax jail without bond. A third suspect, Raul Antonio Aleman Argueta, 20, of the 13300 block of Parcher Avenue, was at large...
Gang-related machete attacks in Northern Virginia, involving gang members assaulting those from rival gangs, have been characterized by hacking off victims' fingers...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Northern Virginia, where I live, is overrun with these people, who are nearly all illegals who came here from Central American and have been granted “temporary special status” to stay, despite the fact they are known criminals. That status is only until they can be amnestied.
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Not in this case.
A relative just bought the Taurus Judge for home defense; has a couple of young children and wife at home. The 410 shotshells or .45 Colt will handle most “issues”.
“I am sure that makes them feel better, after being attacked with a machete, to be told by police that there was no intent to kill them!”
Yeah, especially when the attack was from a group notorious for bloody attacks with machetes. I keep one next to the front door for nuisance patrol, if I want someone (usually Greenpeace or such) away from the door I just pick it up and head out like I’m going to the garden...they tend to leave pretty quick...used it for cutting palm fronds and one day walked into the back yard and saw the gardener with one and thought “hmmmmmm...kinda scary looking”...so I got that going for me...
Saber Lane. Gotta love synchronicity.
"If you make machetes illegal, then only illegals will have machetes."
Investigators think that all three attackers were armed but that one wielded a machete and the others used blunt instruments, possibly baseball bats. Because the victims weren't fatally wounded by the machete, investigators surmised that the attackers did not intend to kill them.
If you break into my house in the middle of the night, you are guilty. That’s the verdict of Judge Mossberg, with pistol grip.
We willingly import a perpetually violent underclass that kills thousands of our fellow citizens every year because “they work cheap” and we don’t have the stomach for border enforcement because we don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings.
Where do you obtain them? I think I need one. It would coordinate nicely with my lovely wittle Glock.
If they are illegals it’s Bush’s fault for not really protecting Americans from terrorists.
It’s all Bush’s fault, including the Nobel Prize thingy.
Here is something to get you laughing.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/99370/the-tonight-show-with-conan-obrien-sesame-street-does-health-care
I had seen that before. What does it have to do with machete attacks in suburbia?
Was he read his own rights?
"Noe Eli Avarado CHOPIN...."
Machete-wielder with an apropos last name.
Yep, the synchronicity is sharply obvious.
Leni
I was trying to brighten up your day.
Thank you. My day will brighten up as soon as I get my own machete.
Three Herndon men were charged with malicious wounding in the attack.
Its impressive police work (or bad journalism) when an arrest is made between the first and fifth paragraph.
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