Teen attacked, killed in her home

A 16-year-old girl who had been assaulted was found dead in her home in the Manassas Park area late Friday afternoon, police said.
Her 14-year-old sister who was also attacked was flown by helicopter to Inova Fairfax Hospital, said Prince William County police Sgt. Kim Chinn.
The slain girl, Stacie Reed, 16, attended Osbourn Park High School, and her sister Kristie, 14, was a student at Parkside Middle School.
Kristie Reed, who had been stabbed, underwent surgery and was listed in critical condition Friday night, a hospital spokesman said.
The girls lived with their mother and her fiance at 8023 Maple St. near Manassas Park, according to neighbors.
Chinn would not comment on how the girls were attacked.
No arrests had been made as of Friday evening.
Neighbors said they saw the girls walk home from school, one at about 11:30 a.m. and the other at about 3:15 p.m.
At 4:15 p.m. their mother's fiance discovered the girls and called 911, Chinn said. She said police had not determined when the attacks occurred.
Neighbors in the normally quiet single familiy subdivision were kept away from the home after police blocked both entrances to Maple Street, forcing them to park their cars a block away.
More than an hour after the slaying, a distraught woman whom neighbors said was the victims' mother pulled up to a police roadblock in a black Chevy S-10 pickup truck, asking what happened. The officer then let her through.
She pulled over near her house, which was surrounded by police cars and yellow police tape, and broke down when someone told her the news. She was immediately led by police and friends to a neighbor's home two houses away.
Steve Hall, 15, said he rode the school bus home with Kristie. Kristie asked him to tell his 13-year-old brother Mark Lewis to stop by the house, Hall said.
"My brother knocked on the door but nobody answered, " Hall told reporters.
Neighbors standing near the roadblock described Stacie as an outgoing and happy teen-ager who lived in a generally quiet, low-crime area.
"This is the first time something like this has ever happened, " said William Kent, 15, standing in a grassy strip at the end of McLean Street surrounded by about a dozen teen-agers.
"It's very shocking, " said Diane Weakley, who has a 16-year-old son. "It's a very nice neighborhood. I've never been worried about walking out at night."
Many neighbors said they didn't know the family, who moved into the neighborhood about a year ago, beyond waving to each other from their yards.
Stacie was in the ROTC program at school, said neighbors. In the last three months she had started dating boys and had many friends, said one neighbor, who declined to be identified.
Stacie's boss at Popeye's restaurant described her as a cheerful, friendly employee, who always offered to work since she was employed five weeks ago. Stacie had asked to work on Friday but the manager said she didn't schedule her because she was trying to cut back on employees' hours.
"I called her 'happiness', " said Jackie Xaysana, manager of the Popeye's in Maplewood Shopping Center. "People loved her and she had a lot of friends."
Kristie, a seventh grader at Parkside Middle School, was described by a neighbor as very quiet and shy.
Police canvassed the area late Friday afternoon, interviewing neighbors.
Investigators combed through the Reeds' modest, red brick home in search of clues.