Crime & Safety
Police Investigate Sexual Assault Near W&OD and Gallows Road
Officers say attack is serious, residents should take caution
Fairfax County Police are investigating a sexual assault early Friday morning on Gallows Road that left a local woman hospitalized with upper body injuries.
Around 1:10 a.m., two men struck a 50-year-old woman with a blunt object and sexually assaulted her behind a building on the 2400 block of Gallows Road, the neighborhood surrounding the road's intersection with the W&OD Trail. The men took cash from the woman before fleeing, according to a police statement released Friday morning.
It's not clear in which direction the suspects were headed.
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"She was taken to a local hospital with injuries to her upper body," spokesperson Bud Walker said. "We're still trying to find out why she was in that area."
The woman is still hospitalized.
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Walker said police are still developing suspect descriptions.
"We do feel this is a serious attack and we want people to take this seriously," he said.
Patch will update this story as more information becomes available.
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