Edward McDaniel Jr., 55, an Army colonel and doctor, and his wife, Brenda McDaniel, 63, a retired Army colonel and a nurse, were shot at their home.
A man was sentenced to life in prison Friday in the 2021 slayings of a military couple in the front yard of their Fairfax County home.found guilty in November of aggravated murder
“Imagine walking into the house, and we see half a cup of coffee, breakfast on the table with no one to return to eat it,” she said. Michael McDaniel was in the home during the shooting, at times looking out his window, and he testified at the trial. Jurors heard portions of Michael McDaniel’s 911 call that he made while hiding in the bathroom.Prosecutor Ashleigh Landers Sutton said at the sentencing hearing that Michael McDaniel, who has intellectual disabilities, did not attend the sentencing hearing because his emotions about his parents’ killings were “too big to be in public.
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