Crime & Safety
Alexandria Police Release Sketch of Suspected Shooter in Lodato Murder
Suspect is described as having some gray hair, balding, with a beard and wearing a tan jacket; no age range was given.
Alexandria Police have released a sketch of the suspect in Thursday's shooting of Ruthanne Lodato. Police have described the man as balding with some gray hair, a beard and wearing a tan jacket. They have given no age range.
Police have said they are looking into whether there is any sort of connection between three unsolved deaths in Alexandria: Lodato, Ron Kirby last year, and Nancy Dunning in 2003.
Late Friday, a helicopter flew over the neighborhood where the shooting took place Thursday, at 2400 Ridge Road Drive.
Lodato left behind husband Norman and three daughters, Lucia Lodato, 32, Gina Lodato Pelusi, 29, and Carmen Lodato, 20, as well as Ruthanne’s 89-year-old mother, Mary Lucy Giammittorio.
The caregiver for Giammittorio was hospitalized, reportedly shot in the arm in the shooting Thursday.
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