Two shot at Lorton gun range
A man shot his adult son and turned the gun on himself Wednesday night in what investigators believe was a murder-suicide attempt in the parking lot of a shooting range in Fairfax County, Va., police said.
Officers responded shortly before 9 p.m. to a report of a shooting at the Sharpshooters Indoor Range on Terminal Road in Lorton on Wednesday and found the two men with life-threatening injuries, Fairfax County police said. Both were rushed to the hospital, where they were being treated Thursday.
A preliminary investigation has determined that the father bought a gun at the range, then used it to fire on his son, who was in a car outside the range building, police said. Police said the man then shot himself.
Police have not identified the men involved and said they are continuing to investigate whether the gun was purchased legally.
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Sharpshooters referred questions to police and said it wasn’t commenting on the incident.
The shooting capped an unusual spate of violence for Fairfax County.
Police said they are continuing to investigate the shooting of a 17-year-old male who was found Wednesday in a home in the 10300 block of Steamboat Landing Lane in Burke. The teenager suffered life-threatening injuries and is in a hospital.
Police have not described the circumstances of that shooting but said alcohol is believed to have been a factor. An 18-year-old man, who was known to the victim, also was in the home and is cooperating with the investigation, police said.
Police also are investigating a fatal shooting at a Motel 6 in Springfield on Tuesday night. They said the victim, whose identity was not released, was a male juvenile.
Police said the death has been ruled a homicide and that investigators are examining the possibility that a conflict occurred in the room where the youth’s body was found. Investigators think alcohol also was a factor in that shooting.
Justin Wm. Moyer and Dana Hedgpeth contributed to this report.
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