7/12/2023 0 Comments Rest stop on i 95![]() ![]() "You never know when something like this will happen." "It puts a real sense of soberness into you," said Chuchik, who already restricts his family's car travel to daylight hours. He was headed toward Dulles International Airport and pulled into the Dale City rest area shortly after police reopened it at 10 a.m. It's something that is going to ratchet up everyone's uneasiness." "Incidents like this undercut that feeling of security we have. ![]() "People trust that because rest stops along I-95 are generally well-lit and near a road that is always busy, that they're relatively safe," said Lon Anderson, spokesman for AAA Potomac. It also prompted warnings that travelers shouldn't let their guard down at freeway rest areas. The slaying, which state police believe to be the first at an interstate rest area in Virginia, shook motorists as the holiday travel season got underway. Some remembered seeing a boxy silver or gray car, possibly a Toyota Camry or Chevrolet Cavalier, speed out of the rest area onto northbound I-95. Later, motorists told investigators they heard several pops that could have been gunfire but didn't realize that at the time. When he didn't come out after several minutes, another sister and the man's niece walked into the one-story brick building to find he'd been shot several times. The 51-year-old man, whose name was not released, helped his disabled sister get from his white Cadillac to the women's restroom, authorities said, and then went into the men's room. The four relatives were headed home to York, Pa., after visiting family in South Carolina and pulled into the rest area near Dale City about 3 a.m. By Steve Vogel Leef Smith December 19, 1996Ī Pennsylvania man was shot dead yesterday morning when he and family members stopped to use the bathroom at a rest area on Interstate 95 in Prince William County, in what police say was an apparent attempt to rob him. ![]()
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