VIRGINIA BRIEFING

LOUDOUN COURTS

Bid to Dismiss Fatal Road Rage Case Rejected

A Loudoun County judge denied yesterday a request to drop the case against a Gaithersburg man charged with second-degree murder in a road rage incident last month that killed a Sterling man.

Indeshaw Adenaw, 32, was charged Aug. 5 with striking and killing Charles Vo, 50, with his pickup on the Dulles Access Road.

During a hearing in Leesburg yesterday, witnesses testified that Adenaw and Vo passed each other on the road several times before Vo sped ahead of Adenaw and slammed on his breaks. Adenaw ran over Vo, who was driving with his wife and two children, when Vo stopped his van in the left lane and approached Adenaw's car on foot, authorities said.

Loudoun General District Judge Dean S. Worcester referred Adenaw's case to a grand jury for review, and the panel expects to take it up Oct. 10.

-- Candace Rondeaux

FAIRFAX ATTACK

Man Is Robbed as He Tries to Deliver a Pizza

A man delivering pizza in the Engleside area of southern Fairfax County was beaten and robbed Monday night by men with baseball bats, Fairfax police said yesterday.

The victim, 39, from the Engleside area, was trying to deliver a pizza near the 8700 block of Lukens Lane, south of Route 1 near Fort Belvoir.