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17-year-old charged in 2019 Fairfax County shooting death

The Fairfax County police said on Wednesday that they’ve charged a 17-year-old with murder in the killing of a man in Reston, Virginia, nearly a year ago.

The police said in a statement that they’ve charged the youth, whom they didn’t identify, with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Jose Lorenzo Guillen Mejia.

Mejia, 24, was found dead in the predawn hours of June 23, 2019, near a walking trail between Hunters Woods Plaza and Breton Court by officers responding to a report of gunshots.

The suspect was already being held at the Fairfax County Juvenile Detention Center on an unrelated charge when the new charges were filed. The suspect is being held without bond.

Va. health dept. improves nursing home inspection backlog, reforms sanction criteria for facilities

Stories of neglect in care or unsanitary living situations have plagued several of Virginia’s nursing home facilities in recent years and data backs up a lapse in oversight by state agencies.  With reform efforts underway, the Virginia Department of Health officials said they aim to adopt sanction criteria by the end of the year to rein in bad actors and get troubled facilities back on track.  As of July, 58% of Virginia’s nursing homes were overdue for inspections and 68 of Virginia’s 289 nursing homes were found to have serious deficiencies, according to ProPublica. Several of the state’s flagged facilities with numerous deficiencies also had high staffing turnover rates.  The issue has been salient among various healthcare spaces, including VDH. 
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