Florida Police Make Arrest in 2010 Slaying of Alexandria Businessman

Police in Florida arrested a Miami man Thursday in the slaying of Alexandria’s Samuel Del Brocco in September 2010, according to Boca News Now. 

Detectives say Del Brocco, who owned a house in Pompano Beach but called Alexandria home, invited John Snavlely to his Florida house the evening he was killed.

Del Brocco, 60, was found dead in his Florida home on Sept. 12, 2010 by police after a woman called 911 and said she had not heard from him. 

An autopsy revealed he died of multiple stab wounds. 

Snavlely faces one count of second-degree murder for his involvement in Del Brocco’s homicide, according to Boca News Now.

Del Brocco was president and CEO of PCI Communications, Inc., a business strategy firm headquartered just off Duke Street. He lived in the Fort Hunt area of Fairfax County and also owned property in the City of Alexandria.

Broward County, Fla., detectives told Del Brocco’s Virginia friends that he was well known in the gay bars of Fort Lauderdale, and may have met his killer in one of them, according to The Washington Post. However, none of Del Brocco’s friends suspected he was gay, according to the Post report, and they grew upset with the stalled investigation.   

Broward police visited Alexandria, seized electronics and interviewed both Del Brocco’s family, friends and his co-workers at PCI in the weeks following his death, according to AlexandriaNews.Org.