Crime & Safety
Man Accused of Killing Vanessa Pham 'High on PCP' at Time of Attack
A Washington Post report says the man who goes on trial August 19 for the Falls Church college student's murder was also holding his 1-year-old baby at the time.
The man accused of killing Falls Church college student Vanessa Pham was high on PCP at the time, according to a news report by the Washington Post.
PCP, or phencyclidine, is a “dissociative” anesthetic that was developed in the 1950s as a surgical anesthetic, according to drugfree.org. Its sedative and anesthetic effects are trance-like, and patients experience a feeling of being “out of body” and detached from their environment.
In addition, Falls Church resident Julio Miguel Blanco Garcia, who will stand trial August 19, was holding his 1-year-old daughter at the time he asked Pham for a ride to the hospital, the news story says.
Police were able to match fingerprints from Garcia with fingerprints on a champagne bottle that was stolen from a Giant store in McLean, the Washington Post reports.
Garcia had stolen three bottles of Moet & Chandon from a Giant Food store in McLean, court records show. Police took his fingerprints after his conviction.
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