THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, May 16, 1996 TAG: 9605160394
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY MIKE MATHER, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH LENGTH: Short : 42 lines
A man told police late Tuesday that he returned home to find an intruder stabbing his wife, so he shot the attacker, investigators said.
When detectives arrived at the apartment off Windsor Oaks Boulevard, they found the suspected intruder dead and the wife unconscious. She later died of stab wounds.
Late Wednesday, police were sorting out the details but said they had learned the wife and the suspected intruder were co-workers at Oceana Naval Air Station. It was not clear why the suspected intruder, identified as 31-year-old Quincy Brown, was in the couple's apartment.
Police said there were no signs of a break-in. Generally, detectives take that to mean that a home was not locked, or that a suspect was invited in.
A Navy spokesman said Brown knew the victim, Elise Makdessi, a 31-year-old air-traffic controller, but the spokesman did not know why or how the two ended up dead in the same apartment.
``The whole thing is kind of mind-boggling,'' said spokesman Troy Snead. ``I guess we won't know what happened until the investigators are done investigating.''
Snead said Navy investigators are assisting Virginia Beach detectives.
Police talked with the husband, Eddie Makdessi, for several hours on Tuesday and Wednesday, but they have not charged him with a crime. The area around the couple's apartment remained cordoned off Wednesday afternoon.
The Makdessis recently moved to the apartment from a home near Oceana, according to city and property records.
Police spokesman Don Rimer said Eddie Makdessi told police he had shot Brown shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday. Rimer said Brown, who worked in a supply department at Oceana, had been shot several times.
KEYWORDS: MURDER STABBING SHOOTING by CNB