On May 8, 2006, Detective Vicky Anne Owen Armel, 40, was shot while responding to a carjacking in Chantilly, Virginia. A troubled 18-year-old, Michael Kennedy, stole a van and drove it to the Sully District Police Station on Stonecroft Boulevard, where he immediately opened fire on officers in the parking lot.

Detective Armel engaged the shooter and was mortally wounded; she was airlifted to Inova Fairfax Hospital and pronounced dead. Master Police Officer Michael Garbarino was also struck and died of his wounds nine days later. Responding officers exchanged gunfire with Kennedy and killed him at the scene. Kennedy was armed with multiple firearms, including an AK-47 style rifle, another rifle, and five handguns.

Kennedy had been arrested for a carjacking two weeks earlier in a different county and had recently escaped from a psychiatric facility. The attack was described as the act of a lone, troubled individual. If anyone has information about Detective Armel, her work, or the events that day, please share what is known.