The Virginia Chapter of the Non-Resident Nepali Association has organized a fundraising campaign to support the remaining family of the victims of a brutal stabbing rampage by Chhatra Thapa, 54, on Feb. 23 in Fairfax.
Thapa killed his wife, Binda Thapa, 52, and daughter, Mamta, 33, a nurse. When police arrived on the scene, described by FCPD Chief Kevin Davis, as a “bloodbath,” Chhatra was in the process of stabbing his son in law, Santosh Kumar Basnet. When he turned the butcher knife on a police officer, the officer shot him, and Chhatra died on the scene.
Basnet is still in the hospital with serious injuries. A baby boy, aged 1, was unharmed, and his future remains uncertain…