Teen Accused of Nazi Ties Charged With Killing Reston Couple

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with killing a husband and wife inside their home in Reston, Virginia, three days before Christmas.

Buckley Kuhn-Fricker and her husband Scott Fricker died after they were shot by the teen early Friday, Dec. 22, police said. The teen, who has not been identified due to his age, then shot himself and has been in the hospital since, police said Friday.

Police have been charged the Lorton teen as a juvenile with two counts of murder. They previously said they had to wait to charge the boy until his condition improved.

Kuhn-Fricker was 43, Fricker was 48, and they had three children between them.

The teen suspect was the boyfriend of Kuhn-Fricker's 16-year-old daughter, and the mother had just learned the 17-year-old was a Nazi supporter, Kuhn-Fricker's mother said. Just two days before the shooting, the family staged an intervention with the teen girl to try to convince her to stay away from the boyfriend.

Fairfax County police have declined to confirm these details and only said the suspect, who they did not name because he is a juvenile, knew the couple. 

A close relative of the teen suspect said the family knew nothing about reports that the teen repeatedly expressed admiration for Nazis. She said he struggled with mental illness. 

At the family's house in Lorton, Virginia, the woman sobbed as she told News4's David Culver she felt horrible for the victims. She asked News4 to withhold her identity to protect her privacy. 

Fricker and Kuhn-Fricker found the teen boy in their home on the 2600 block of Black Fir Court in Reston about 5 a.m. Dec. 22 and confronted him, police said.

He shot them and then turned the gun on himself. 

Kuhn-Fricker's daughter called 911, dispatch calls reveal.

"Caller advising her mother and father were shot," a 911 dispatcher told police.

When officers arrived at the home, they heard shots inside the home. The officers then found on the second floor of the home three people who had been shot.

Four family members who were home at the time of the shooting were not hurt. 

Janet Kuhn, Buckley Kuhn-Fricker's mother, said that days before the killings, Kuhn-Fricker had been consumed with concern about her teen daughter's boyfriend. Kuhn-Fricker had discovered the 17-year-old was a Nazi supporter.

"My daughter and her husband found out about a lot of the Nazi stuff just this past week, and they forbid their daughter to see him again," Kuhn said after the killings.

Neighbors told The Washington Post that the teen boy mowed a swastika about 40 feet across into the grass of a community field about two months before the shooting. The neighbors opted to talk to the boy's parents instead of going to police, Penny Potter said.

Buckley Kuhn-Fricker had a law practice and specialized in estate planning and elder law, according to her website. Scott Fricker worked for the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"They were a wonderful couple," Kuhn said.