RESTON, Va. — Fairfax County Police are investigating a shooting Thursday afternoon that left a 40-year-old man dead, and an unidentified woman with non-life-threatening injuries.
According to police, the shooting happened just before 5:30 p.m. in the 2200 block of Winterthur Court. Once on the scene, police discovered 40-year-old Santos Antonio Trejos, of Reston, with gunshot wounds in the entryway of an apartment building; he was pronounced dead at the scene.
"Preliminarily, detectives believe Trejos was outside of the apartment building when a man began shooting at him," Fairfax Police said in a press release.
Fairfax County police are still looking for the suspect that is involved in the shooting. Police have described the wanted suspect as a Black male who left in a black car with tinted windows. They are not sure whether the suspect fled on foot or by car.
A woman also reported non-life-threatening injuries from the shooting, but police are still investigating whether those injuries are the result of shrapnel or from fragments of building material from the gunfire.
If you have any information on this incident, please contact Fairfax County Police at (703) 478-0904 or call 911 immediately.
This is the third homicide of 2021 in Fairfax County, according to police.
Just last week, two people were shot in Fairfax County on March 5. The shooting happened in the 6100 block of Hibbling Avenue in Springfield, police said.
The two shooting victims were taken to a hospital with serious injuries. The extent of their injuries are still unknown at this time.
Details on the events leading up to the shooting have not been released.