Crime & Safety

Police Investigate Deaths at Skyline Towers

Fairfax County police responded to calls about shots being fired; two people are dead.

Fairfax County police responded to the Skyline Towers apartment complex just before 10 a.m. Monday on a report of the sound of shots being fired, according to a news release.

Officers arrived and found two bodies, one adult male and one adult female, in an apartment.

The initial investigation has led detectives to believe this was a murder-suicide and was possibly domestic in nature, according to the news release.

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Crime scene technicians and homicide detectives are on the scene.           

Investigators are asking anyone with information to contact Crime Solvers at 866-411-8477, email at www.fairfaxcrimesolvers.org or text “TIP187” plus your message to CRIMES/274637, or call Fairfax County police at 703-691-2131.

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