FAIRFAX GIRL AND AIRMAN FOUND SHOT DEAD IN CAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300440011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 19, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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A young `airman recently re-
turned froni Viet Nam and an
18-year-old Fairfax County girl
,were found shot to death' in a
'parked car in Arlington' this
morning. Police termed their
deaths "apparent murder and
'suicide."
' It was nearly si* hours after
discovery of their bodies, in a
car parked in the 800 block of
S. Frederick Street just off Co-
lumbia Pike, before police re-
vealed their identities.
They finally identified them
as Airman 1C Eugene W. Mon-
tague, 22, 'of the 1909th Com-
munications Squadron at.. An-
drews Air. Force Base In nearby
Maryland, and Miss , Pamela
Jean Lewis, 18; ' of 8704 014
Mount' Vernon Road in ,the
Mount' Vernon area,south of
Alexandtia.
was from Fairfax County, H' 1
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Force Base said Montague re-,-j
ported there Sept. 23 after'
serving the normal year's duty,
in Viet Nam.
As to why the car happened;
to be parked where it was,
within a Barden-apartment
home '.was listed as 0212 Wolf ?
Run Shoals Road, in Clifton. had been staying overnight;
An.' unidentified woman saw with a girl friend in the devel-ti
the. bodies in the car when she opment.
passed it, on her way to 'work) Detectives declined to say,
about 7:20 a.m. and telephoned more about the shootings other,
police.than that they were apparently
Investigators said the air-; a case of murder-suicide.
man's body was' found on the Explaining the secrecy which:
back seat of the car, with a i cloaked release of the names,
.45-caliber gun in' his lap. The!Detect.ive Capt. Robert Weekly;
body `of Miss' Lewis, who po-isaidrn lie atrefused t agive out an
lice said f a Government a because he wonted relatives to j
employe; was as found on the front lpositively. identify the bodies.'
seat. He said police had tentative'
Police said the airman had!iidentification, earlier1; but -be"
been shot through the' mouth, wanted to: confirm- it..;;
with the bullet lodged in the
baqk of his neck. The, girl was,
shot in the left ear and the;
bullet passed out the right ear,;
police added. i
Police. said the' couple had
been' going together before. he
went ?to Viet Nam for'' duty.