Westgate became an armed camp around 5:30 Friday night. Sirens screamed, a chopper swarmed overhead, Rescue squads streamed down the street as well as fire trucks. Prince William County police are searching for a man, David Marcelis Frye, age 37 and have issued warrants for him for aggrevated assault and malicious wounding. Meanwhile, his ex-girlfriend was transported from the 96oo block of Lafayette Avenue to an area trauma unit with life-threatening injuries from knife wounds.
Frye is also wanted for making threatening phone calls and for failure to show up for court. Meanwhile this man is not in custody and is being sought by the police. He is black, with short hair, around 220 pounds and approximately 6 ft. tall.
Ask me, it was entirely too cold last night to be out stabbing people.
Good reason to keep doors locked. No one wants this toad coming in from the cold and holding someone hostage. To my knowledge, this guy has not been apprehended yet.
Thank you, thank you! Some nut cracks in Prince William County
and you don’t do a WaPo and call it “in Manassas”.
I might have a little better lay of the land than the post does. You gotta remember, the post office lists the 9600 block of Lafayette as Manassas. No town of Westgate that I know of. Maybe in the next census……
If the City of Manassas is going to get bad press because
a bad chunk of PWC has a mailing address of Manassas, hopefully
we could also get a cut of the tax revenue from the area
to pay for a PR person.
I would not say Westgate was a ‘bad chunk’ of PWC. Horrible things can happen anywhere.–even in the best of neighborhoods.
PR, I am going to laugh if this toad turns out to be a city resident who crept over the border to the county.
Your sarcasm escapes me!!
PR,
Can we get tax revenue from the City of Manassas, for decades of the crimes of GTS? Some would call it a “bad chunk”. I’m really speechless over your comments. Let’s not forget there is a woman fighting for her life.
I think it is fabulous that PR promotes the city. However the promotion should not be at the expense of tearing down the county. The City should not forget from whence it came. We are all one community. The borders are man-made.
First, no one is forgetting that a woman is fighting for her life as the result of
a scumbag’s terrible actions. Hopefully the perp will be quickly chaptered
and the young lady will soon recover.
Second, my point is that Prince William County and the City of Manassas are
two separate jurisdictions. Close, connected, but not the same and when
lazy reporting labels every vile thing that happens twenty miles around
the City as “Manassas”, then we suffer. My goal is not to rundown PWC
or claim perfection for Manassas, but a desire for accurate information
being reported.
PR, thanks for the clarification. It took our local paper years before they got consistant with reporting crimes in the Manassas portion of PWC as the “Manassas area”. I think WE will have to continue to education the other local media. It’s a fine line sometimes with the pesky jurisdiction borders. Prime example my neighborhood of WestGate abuts both cities. I can understand why it would be confusing to newcomers and media that don’t live in the immediate area.
I just felt your comments were a little out of character for you today. It’s important to remember as Moon said “we all are one community”.
I have no knowledge of Westgate in particular, but I do not think that this is the sort of crime which ought to be reflected back on the Manassas area just because it may have taken place there. It looks like a crime of passion. These can happen anywhere — Park Avenue;West Hollywood; Malibu; the Gold Coast of Chicago’s Northside,; Langley, Virginia; ad infinitum I am not from PWC, but I would think that one crime of passion does not turn Westgate into a no-man’s land. Anyone who might imply that in their journalistic crime reporting ought to be taken to the proverbial woodshed.
@Moon-howler
>>> Good reason to keep doors locked. No one wants this toad coming in from the cold and holding someone hostage.
Good reason to arm yourself too. Bad guys have a habit of breaking in doors and windows.
I feel I live in Manassas and have for many years, even though I don’t live in the City. Close enough. I tell people I live in Manassas, without apology. If they want specifics I say the county. In general people don’t care.
Crime can happen anywhere. Wolverine is correct. I hope the poor woman who was stabbed makes a full recovery.
Its probably safer for me to get a security system. I might shoot the wrong person.
@Moon-howler
>>> Its probably safer for me to get a security system. I might shoot the wrong person.
Okay. But think about that (security system) for a second. It’ll take at the very least 3 to 5 minutes for the best police force to get to your house after an alarm is tripped. In reality, it will be A LOT longer.
When does your security system alert the police? When a bad guy is ALREADY AT YOUR DOOR. So what will you do between the time the police are notified (via the alarm or phone call) and they actually show up? A bad guy can do a lot in 5 minutes!
I realize that guns aren’t everyone’s forte. But one should have a plan in the event that something bad happens.
Something to think about.
What is scary, is that this woman was probably living in fear JUST such a violent rage,and really, even if there was a protective order, they really don’t do much. On this, I’m RingDan, take firearm lesson, self defense lessons, and be prepared.
I am a gun owner. It probably isn’t a good idea for me to say too much here. You make a good point and it is something to consider, as are alarm systems.
I also have 4 legged alarm systems.
According to insidenova, the stabbing victim is still in critical condition and the perp still has not been apprehended.
Some 4 legged alarm systems are probably better than the electronic ones. However my 4 legged system would probably wag her tail at any potential intruder.
Actually, in my old neighborhood – there was a shocking amount of domestic abuse crime in recent years. Also, a murder occurred within sight of my old house – and it was domestic abuse – believe it or not a man killed his ex-wife while she and her children (and I suppose other children) were waiting at the school bus stop! He also went a few days before either being apprehended or turning himself in, I forget which. But not a month went by where there weren’t several police calls to the neighborhood for some kind of domestic violence situation. I don’t know why it was so prevalent there in recent years, but it was.
Mine sound like the hounds of hell. Not sure how sharp the teeth are. Wouldn’t want to put it to the test.
GR, the county seems to be getting more urban kinds of crime than it used to get. That is a shame.
Indeed, the trend toward urban types of crime is very disturbing indeed. I never thought I’d have a murder that occurred in a spot that I could see from the front door of my house. It happened though after I had already left to go to work that day.
Multiple dogs barking probably is a better deterrent than some alarm systems.
I have a dog that sounds like nails on a chalk board. This high pitched dreadful bark. I can’t imagine anyone willingly coming in to my house with that yapping going on.
Let me first say that I live in Manassas, I raised my children in Westgate, without fear, one of which is a happy healthy adult, the other is on his way as he’s still a minor. This crime did not take place in Westgate, but in the Sudley area of Manassas, and if any of you reading this knows Manassas at all will testify to the good reputation that the Sudley area has had for many years. I know both of the people involved in this, have known them for a few years, and this was in fact a crime of passion. With that being said, burglary, assault, rape, etc. CAN happen anywhere no matter how affluent or destitute the community appears to be. As a resident of Westgate of many years I take offense to the statement deeming Westgate a “bad chunk of PWC” just because this was REPORTED to have happened there.
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I hate to tell you but the 9600 block of Lafayette is most definately in the subdivision of West Gate of Lomond(a/k/a WestGate). Lafayette does run throgh both WestGate and Sudley. However, the stabbing took place in WestGate, unfortunuately. Look my name, trust me, *I* know that this did in fact happen in WestGate. As a native of WestGate you can bet that I’m right there with you with taking offense to “bad chunk of PWC”.
The suspect was arrested early this morning. Thanks to the US Marshals.
http://www2.insidenova.com/isn/news/crime/article/man_arrested_in_new_years_stabbing/50224/