VIRGINIA BRIEFING

Pr. WILLIAM SLAYING

Police Charge 3 With Murder in Beating

Three men have been charged with murder in the beating death of a 21-year-old Manassas man who was last seen alive running from a mob of men, Prince William County police said yesterday.

Charles A. Angelos Jr. was discovered dead in a back yard in the 8000 block of Portwood Turn about 9 a.m. Nov. 18, police said. The night before, Angelos, his roommate and a neighbor had gone looking for three men who threw a five-gallon paint bucket through a glass door at Angelos's Georgian Court home. When they arrived at Portwood Turn, they were chased by about 15 men, according to police. Angelos's roommate and neighbor managed to get away.

The three men were each charged with murder. Arrested were Marvin A. Rodriguez-Barrera, 19, of the 3500 block of Coxcomb Mews in Dale City; Salvador M. Elias-Miranda, 25, of the same address; and Elias I. Quinteros-Soriano, 29, of the 7800 block of Meadow Ct. in Manassas. They are being held without bond.

-- Theresa Vargas

FAIRFAX CRIME

DNA Used to Convict Man in 1991 Case

A West Virginia man was convicted in Fairfax County yesterday of abducting, raping and robbing a 19-year-old woman in the Chantilly area in 1991, a crime to which he was linked solely by DNA found on the victim's blouse.

A Fairfax jury took 90 minutes to decide that Troy Holland, 38, of Charles Town was one of two men who grabbed the woman as she emerged from her car in the Shenandoah Crossing apartment complex, along Route 50 in western Fairfax, on Nov. 2, 1991. The woman testified Monday that the men wore masks and gloves, forced her back into her car and repeatedly assaulted her, then drove her back to the Chantilly neighborhood where she lived.

In 2004, a DNA hit identified an initial suspect, Donald H. Roper, 40, then living in Fredericksburg. Roper was arrested last year, convicted at trial this year and sentenced last week to 115 years in prison. After identifying Roper, Fairfax detectives linked him to Holland, obtained Holland's DNA and found a second match. The jury will meet again today to decide a sentence.