VIRGINIA BRIEFING

FAIRFAX COUNTY

Two Men Shot Outside Reston Apartments

Two men sitting outside an apartment complex in Reston were shot yesterday afternoon, and police said they were looking for three men who fled on foot.

Both victims were in surgery yesterday evening and their conditions were unknown, Fairfax County police said.

The victims, whose names were not released, were sitting in a common area in the 2300 block of Freetown Court, just off Reston Parkway in the Hunters Woods section of Reston, about 12:25 p.m. Officer Eddy Azcarate, a Fairfax police spokesman, said the two were approached by three men, and that one of the men was armed and shot both victims.

The victims were taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital. One was 20 years old, Azcarate said. Azcarate declined to say how many times the men were shot or whether the incident was gang-related.

-- Tom Jackman

Grocery Workers Victims of Robbery Attempt

One female employee of a Giant Food store in Reston was assaulted and another was tied up in an apparent robbery attempt shortly after the grocery closed Saturday night, but the two suspects fled without taking any money after receiving a phone call, Fairfax County police said.

The masked suspects apparently waited inside the Giant in the Fox Mill Center, 2551 John Milton Dr., until it closed at 11 p.m. About 10 minutes later, police said, the men appeared in one of the aisles, brandished a gun at one of the two female victims and assaulted her.

The women were ordered at gunpoint to the store office, where one was bound, and the men demanded money. The suspects then received a call on a cellphone and left, police said. The victims did not require medical treatment.