Man Charged in Centreville Murder Wrote Letter Before Attack

A Centreville man who has been charged with stabbing his ex-girlfriend and her sister on June 6 detailed his intentions in harming the two women in a letter dated several days before he allegedly attacked them, according to an affadavit for a search warrant. 

On June 6, police charged Man Ha Park, 53, . Her sister, 52—Park's ex-girlfriend—was also stabbed and sent to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. In a handwritten letter dated June 3, Park detailed in Korean how he felt "about the victims and his intentions in bringing harm to the victims and to himself," according to the affidavit filed in Fairfax County Circuit Court by a homicide detective.

Centreville Patch is not publishing the sister's name because she is a victim of domestic violence. But the affidavit states that the woman and/or her sister had kicked Park out of the apartment just weeks before the incident. 

Park apparently came back in the early hours of June 6 with a knife in his hand to fight with the two women, according to eyewitness testimony detailed in the warrant. Police later found the ex-girlfriend, "who appeared to have a laceration to her neck and a laceration to her upper abdomen," lying outside her neighbor's front door, according to the warrant.

The scene inside the apartment was grisly. Officers found the body of the murder victim on a blood-soaked mattress. The letter lay next to Park on a mattress, along with three large knives. It appeared to the officers that there was blood on the knives and "a large amount of blood in the bedroom where Park was found and in the adjoining bathroom," the warrant states. 

Park and the ex-girlfriend were treated for stab wounds at Fairfax Hospital. A police spokesperson declined to comment on the details in the search warrant, saying that more information would come out in court. 

The affidavit requested permission from a judge to search a 1997 Dodge van that Park was known to drive. Police looked for physical evidence directly pertaining to the crime, anything Park may have written and any information relating to the current residence and identity of Park and the victims. 

The murder was the fifth homicide in Fairfax County this year, and the second in Centreville.