
                         THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
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DATE: SUNDAY, June 26, 1994                    TAG: 9406260196 
SECTION: LOCAL                     PAGE: B4    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: ARLINGTON 
DATELINE: 940626                                 LENGTH: Short

TEEN CHARGED WITH MURDER

{LEAD} A Fairfax County teenager has been charged with three counts of felony murder in the deaths a man and his daughters during a high speed chase more than a year ago.

Prosecutors waited until last week to charge the 18-year-old, who suffered brain damage in the wreck but was recently released from treatment, said Arlington County Commonwealth's Attorney Richard E. Trodden.

{REST} His name has not been released because he was charged as a juvenile.

The charges were filed June 14 after Falls Church police told Trodden that the young man was back home with his parents in Fairfax County. The charges were filed in Arlington County, where cases for the city of Falls Church are also tried.

The teenager was 17 when he allegedly drove a stolen 1980 Toyota Tercel into the side of a Subaru station wagon carrying Emory W. Burchett, 43, and his daughters, Kara, 12, and Rena, 8, on Jan. 17, 1993.

{KEYWORDS} MURDER ACCIDENT TRAFFIC AUTOMOBILE THEFTS VIRGINIA FATALITIES INJURIES

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