Newly unsealed court papers show that the shooting death of a northern Virginia couple in 2017 may have been connected to a suicide pact between the couple’s daughter and her boyfriend.
This photo provided by Fairfax County Sheriff's Office shows Nicholas Giampa. The shooting death of a northern Virginia couple in 2017 may have been connected to a suicide pact between the couple's daughter and her boyfriend, according to newly unsealed court papers. Giampa, 22, of Lorton, Va., is charged with murder in the deaths of Scott Fricker and his wife, Buckley Kuhn-Fricker.
Police reports in the court file indicate that the daughter told detectives she and Giampa had entered a suicide pact after her parents ordered her to end the relationship. It was at that point, according to the police report, that the daughter and Giampa planned to follow through on their suicide pact. The daughter told police that Giampa put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger, but it did not fire. Giampa then turned the gun on himself and shot himself in the forehead.
Though the case has drawn intense interest, details of what happened have been hidden from public view. Because Giampa was a few months shy of his 18th birthday when the shootings took place, he was charged initially in juvenile court, where records and hearings were not made public.Giampa is now being tried as an adult, but nearly the entire case file had been sealed from the public at the request of prosecutors and the defense.
Public defender Dawn Butorac, in court papers, said police “used coercive tactics to take advantage of a child that had suffered a severe brain injury.”
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