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By Damien Sharkov
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Police in Virginia found a husband and wife fatally shot in their home on Friday. A 17-year-old boy, hospitalized with apparently self-inflicted gunshot wounds, is suspected of being behind their deaths. Here is what we know about the incident.
Found at the scene of the crime were Scott Fricker, 48, and his wife Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, 43, of Reston, who were both dead, and another person who was injured, according to the Fairfax County Police Department. The injured teenager sustained life-threatening injuries according to the police.
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His relationship with the couple is not a matter of public record but according to The Washington Post, which interviewed relatives and friends of the victims, the boy was apparently dating the couple's 16-year-old daughter. Both the girl's and the suspect's names have been officially withheld because they are minors.
"The preliminary investigation determined the suspect, who knows the residents of the home, got inside and was then confronted by the couple," the report stated. "The suspect shot them both and then himself."
The Reston community, located about 20 miles from the nation's capital, was understandably shocked by the event. "It's amazing, because the loudest thing that happens around here is the occasional barking dog," Bill Aylward, a neighbor of the couple, told NBC Washington.
The motive for the attack and suicide attempt is also unknown. Press reports have suggested that the boy had a history of associating with neo-Nazi elements. The report in the Post claimed that the family discovered tweets sent out by someone they thought was the suspect, including a comment on a picture of a candy shop with a Jewish toy inside, in which he threatened to "run in there with my swastika armband right now."
"My daughter and her husband found out about a lot of the Nazi stuff just this past week, and they forbid their daughter to see him again," Janet Kuhn, the mother of one of the victims, told NBC Washington, on Sunday. The Post report claims the couple became worried when their daughter started parroting anti-Jewish sentiments about the Second World War.
According to a friend of Kuhn-Fricker's, who spoke to the Post on the condition of anonymity, the couple recently said: "We can't allow her to see someone associated with Nazis... We don't associate with hate groups in our house."
The shooting took place with four other family members in the house, however they were not injured, according to the police report. The survivors have not been named and the police said that a local Victim Services Section is assisting those in need.
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