Friday, April 2, 2010

Annandale, VA: Girlfriend arrested in Annandale man's shooting death

By: Scott McCabe
Examiner Staff Writer
March 31, 2010

Fairfax County police arrested a woman Tuesday in the shooting death of her boyfriend.

Police charged Caralee Cottle, 31, of Manassas, with the murder of 37-year-old Nathan Smiler.

On the night of Feb. 15, police said, Smiler and Cottle were with friends when they got into an argument at Smiler's Annandale home. The two went downstairs to his basement apartment. Witnesses heard a gunshot, and Cottle ran upstairs saying Smiler had been shot. Smiler was found shot in the head with a bolt-action rifle, police said.


- Scott McCabe

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