N.Va. Stabbing Tied to Killings In Richmond

Gray and Dandridge are also being investigated in connection with a home invasion Jan. 3 in Chesterfield, a Richmond suburb, law enforcement sources said.

Members of the other slain Richmond family -- Percyell Tucker, 55, his wife, Mary Baskerville, 47, and her daughter Ashley Baskerville, 21 -- were found dead Friday night in their home, which had been ransacked, police said.

Gray and Dandridge are charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the Richmond slayings and are being held without bond. Monroe accused the men yesterday of "robbing people in a vicious manner."

Arlington police have not determined a motive for the stabbing of the 25-year-old man about 8:30 p.m. in the 5100 block of North 25th Street, a quiet and relatively safe area of the county. His name was not released because police consider him a witness.

Matthew Martin, an Arlington police spokesman, said information about the stabbing was sent in an e-mail to the Yorktown Civic Association's members, who live near the scene of the attack. A news release on the incident was not issued.

Catherine Som, who lives next door, said the victim's father went outside to check on his son after hearing him arrive home and saw him stumbling toward their front door. "They have knives," Som said the man told his father before collapsing.

The victim's mother declined to talk about her son or the attack yesterday.

In Alexandria, Circuit Court records show that Gray and Dandridge took part in several armed robberies in October 1995, when they were both 19. Along with a friend, they robbed two Georgetown University students of their watches and backpacks, records show.

The group then committed several robberies in Alexandria, taking a dollar, a pager and sunglasses from one man, a leather hooded coat from another man, and a wallet and watch from a cabdriver. Dandridge served 10 years in prison, records show. Gray was sentenced to four years.

Staff writers Sari Horwitz, Carol Morello and Del Quentin Wilber and staff researcher Meg Smith contributed to this report.