Police report a woman has died after being accidentally shot in a Fairfax County home.
FAIR OAKS, Va. — A woman is dead after someone in a Fairfax County home accidentally shot her, police say.
Officers responded to the scene of the reported shooting in the row house community in the 4500 block of Derring Lane in Fair Oaks around 3:45 p.m. Friday.
The gun “inadvertently discharged” while another person in the house was cleaning it, police explained. The gun reportedly went off as it was being placed in a gunbox on the third floor of the home.
The woman killed has since been identified as 30-year-old Jennifer Kim.
The gun owner, 31-year-old Richard Huynh, has been charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm in a building. He is being held without bond.
Investigators have not said how Kim and Huynh knew each other.