A State Department employee went on a terrifying stabbing spree during a road rage incident, leaving one woman dead, three seriously injured, and killing his own dog before being fatally shot by a responding trooper.
The suspect, identified as 32-year-old Jared Llamado of McLean, Virginia, was a Foreign Service Officer with the State Department. His career included assignments in Copenhagen, Denmark, after graduating with honors from George Mason University.
The rampage took place on Interstate 495 on Sunday afternoon, in Fairfax County, Virginia, near the Little River Turnpike exit.
According to authorities, it all started with a crash involving Llamado’s red SUV.
Witnesses reported him weaving erratically through traffic, sideswiping vehicles, and aggressively pursuing a car carrying four women who were complete strangers to him.
After the vehicles came to a stop, Llamado allegedly exited his SUV armed with a knife and began stabbing the women inside the other car.
The victims were identified as Michele Adams, 39, who succumbed to her injuries; Dana Bonnell, 36; Mary C. Flood, 37; and Heather Miller, 40. All of the surviving victims suffered serious wounds and were rushed to nearby hospitals.
Investigators also say Llamado also stabbed and killed his own dog during the chaos.
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FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER SUSPECT in LETHAL ROAD RAGE INCIDENT
Jared Llamado killed a woman and a dog, and injured multiple other women, in a road rage incident outside Washington, DC
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Eyewitnesses described the scene as pure horror.
Sarah Kober and her daughter Jennifer Paxton, who were driving home to North Carolina, said Llamado sideswiped their vehicle before zeroing in on the victims’ car.
“I told my mom, I’m like, ‘Hey, let’s pull over,’ and she was like ‘For what? The guy’s kept going.’ I mean, we watched him weave in and out of traffic following another car,” Paxton told NBC 4.
They ultimately pulled over behind Llamado’s SUV and witnessed the stabbings firsthand, before fleeing for their lives.
“I didn’t know if he was going to come back at us. We did not know and we were terrified,” Kober said. “That lady needed help and we ran because we didn’t know what else to do.”
“It’s my daughter. I didn’t want us to get stabbed so I just told her ‘Run! Run!’” Kober told the outlet.
Another witness told Fox 5, “I look at the side of the road, and I see two people lying on the side of the road; they were about… 10 or 15 feet apart and they were just covered in blood, like, blood everywhere. One of them was not moving, and one of them was sort of crawling.”
A Virginia State Police trooper arrived on the scene and confronted Llamado, who was still wielding the knife.
BREAKING: A woman and dog were stabbed to death, and three other people were stabbed after road rage incident in Fairfax County, Va this afternoon. The suspect was shot and killed by police on I-495, according to Virginia state troopers. Authorities say “This incident is NOT… pic.twitter.com/6nqUDCzqCG
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When Llamado advanced toward the officer, the trooper shot him in self-defense.
Llamado was transported to a hospital but later died from his injuries.
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