Crime & Safety

Murder Suspect Swabbed for DNA

Springfield resident Richard Hanson was apprehended in Pennsylvania two days after his father's shooting death.

Fairfax County Police have obtained a DNA sample from the Springfield man accused of killing his father on July 19.

In a search warrant request filed on September 9, Fairfax County Police Department homicide Detective Erik S. Stallings requested permission to take a DNA swab from Richard Hanson's mouth. In an affidavit filed with the request, Stallings wrote that DNA was needed to compare with evidence gathered at the crime scene.

Richard Hanson, 53, is , his father, four times in the head. The elder Hanson was shot in the Springfield home he shared with his son.

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