Teen girl, young man found dead in Pr. William

Father discovered both shot in Triangle home; suicide possible

A 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man were found fatally shot Monday evening in the Triangle section of Prince William County, county police said.

The girl, who lived in Triangle, and the man, who lived in Woodbridge, were found in a bedroom of the girl's home on Oakdale Circle when her father returned shortly after 5 p.m., police said.

Details of the shootings were not immediately available late Monday, but there were indications that police considered one or both of the deaths to be suicide.

A neighbor said officers told her that there was no public-safety threat after the deaths. Myrna Mock said she was told that "everything is safe now." A police official told a local television station that officials were not looking for suspects.

Mock said neighbors were told that officials believed the man was the girl's boyfriend. Neither of the two was identified by name; the father's name was also not released.

Mock said she understood that the father, daughter and a son who appeared to be of grade-school age lived in the Cape Cod-style house for two or three years. She did not know where they had lived previously.

Mock added that her encounters with family members, although not frequent, were always "quite pleasant."

Once, she said, they came by a lemonade stand set up at her house, and she was impressed by how well the girl and her brother seemed to get along and how they appeared to be looking out for each other.

Police said the father found the girl and young man in one of the bedrooms and then called authorities.

Mock said she heard nothing out of the ordinary yesterday. But many factors might have prevented her from hearing the sound of gunshots, she said. The neighborhood, she said, is not far from the Quantico Marine Corps base, so the sound of weapons is heard regularly and such noises "wouldn't have seemed out of the ordinary."

Late Monday, Mock said, long after the arrival of officers signaled that there was something amiss, police remained in the neighborhood.

Several residents of what she described as "generally a family-oriented neighborhood" also remained outdoors, watching and talking among themselves.

The reported violence was "not an event that normally happens in our neighborhood," she said, calling it "really quite shocking."