Police say they believe the victim was set afire Wednesday by an acquaintance in her apartment.
In what county police Maj. Ed O’Carroll called “a brutal case,” officers and firefighters Wednesday afternoon responded to a reported “domestic dispute” and “active fire alarm” in the 2900 block of Willston Place in the Seven Corners area of Falls Church. There, they found 40-year-old Silvia Vaca AbacayHours later, police arrested Richard A. Montano, 47, described by O’Carroll as “an acquaintance” of the victim.
“Preliminarily, detectives believe Montano forced entry into the apartment, assaulted Ms. Abacay and set her on fire,” police said in a statement. Asked about a motive for the attack, O’Carroll said at a news briefing, “That has yet to be answered in this case.”When first-responders arrived at the building shortly after 3 p.m., O’Carroll said, “they saw smoke emanating from the apartment. They took heroic action and entered the apartment. They located an adult female, actively on fire.
An autopsy was performed Thursday, but a report on the cause of her death had not been completed, O’Carroll said. “The suspect knew the victim,” he said. “We are determining the extent of their relationship. … This was not a stranger attack. They had a relationship — an acquaintance, if you will. … There’s no indication of anything more than that.”O’Carroll said police had been called to the apartment twice before for reports of domestic disturbances, but it was not clear whether those incidents involved Abacay or Montano. He said “there are multiple occupants that live there,” often moving in and out.
After a neighbor called police Wednesday to report a noisy domestic dispute in Abacay’s apartment, the neighbor called back to say that a fire alarm was sounding, which caused firefighters to also respond, O’Carroll said. He said a “community member” took a photo of Montano in the building around the time of the attack, and witnesses told detectives that they saw him fleeing.O’Carroll said Montano “has had very minimal contacts with law enforcement in the past.
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