Virginia murder suspect in bus stop stabbing had lengthy criminal history, multiple dropped charges

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A Virginia execution fishy accused of fatally stabbing a pistillate astatine a autobus halt earlier this week has a lengthy transgression past filled with aggregate arrests, but was fto backmost onto the streets astir each time.

Abdul Jalloh, 32, is charged with the Monday nighttime sidesplitting of Stephanie Minter, 41, of Fredericksburg, astatine a autobus halt shelter, the Fairfax County Police Department said.

Minter was recovered by officers with stab wounds to her precocious assemblage and pronounced dormant astatine the scene, constabulary said.

Stephanie Minter, 41, and Abdul Jalloh, 32

Abdul Jalloh, 32, is accused of sidesplitting Stephanie Minter, 41, astatine a Virginia autobus stop. (Fairfax County Police Department; provided)

Jalloh, 32, who was seen connected surveillance cameras exiting the autobus with Minter astatine Richmond Highway and Arlington Drive, was arrested the adjacent day.

He was arrested astatine a liquor store aft an worker called 911. At the time, officers arrested him for allegedly shoplifting. Investigators linked him to the execution a time later.

Authorities were inactive trying to find a motive for the sidesplitting and what led to the deadly stabbing.

A hunt of online tribunal records revealed Jalloh has much than a twelve arrests successful bluish Virginia, including connected charges of petty larceny and malicious wounding.

In astir of the cases, prosecutors dropped the charges, FOX D.C. reported.

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Abdul Jalloh seen connected a autobus successful Virginia. (Fairfax County Police Department)

Laura Birnbaum, the main of unit for Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano, said Jalloh was known to the territory attorney's bureau and was "acutely alert of the hazard helium posed to the community."

"That is wherefore we convicted the suspect of a 2023 malicious wounding charge, and person since made each effort to clasp him accountable each consequent clip that helium has travel successful interaction with the transgression justness system, including asking him to beryllium held successful custody whenever possible," Birnbaum said.

"Unfortunately, the suspect successful this lawsuit besides had a past of selecting victims with nary fixed code – immoderate of the astir susceptible members of our community," she added. "In aggregate cases, we were incapable to determination guardant with prosecution due to the fact that victims could not beryllium located oregon contacted."