Stephanie Nicole Minter, Fredericksburg, Virginia woman stabbed to death by Abdul Jalloh, illegal immigrant with over 30 criminal prior arrests.
Stephanie Minter, Fredericksburg, Virginia woman stabbed to death by illegal immigrant with more than 30 arrests at Fairfax County bus stop. Abdul Jalloh a Sierra Leone national had been ordered to be deported in 2020 only to remain in the United States. Had previous charges dropped.
A 41-year-old Virginia mom was fatally stabbed last month while waiting for a bus in Fairfax County. Authorities have since arrested an illegal immigrant with over 30 prior criminal arrests in connection with her death.
Stephanie Nicole Minter, of Fredericksburg, Va., was discovered on the evening of February 23, just on 7:16 p.m. with multiple stab wounds to her upper body inside a bus stop shelter according to a Fairfax County Police Department press release.
Despite life saving measures being made at the bus stop, at the intersection of Richmond Highway and Arlington Drive in Hybla Valley, Stephanie Minter was declared dead at the scene.
What led to mystery fatal Fairfax County bus stabbing?
During the course of interviews and via the use of surveillance footage, Abdul Jalloh, 32, of no fixed address, was identified as the last person seen with Minter, police said. Investigators said the two were seen exiting a bus together shortly before the stabbing. Authorities have not indicated that Minter and Jalloh knew each other.
On Feb. 24 at 4:01 p.m., officers responded to a suspicious person call in the 8600 block of Richmond Highway in Woodlawn after an employee recognized Jalloh as a person of interest and contacted police. Officers located him and connected him to a larceny reported earlier that day. Jalloh was arrested and charged with petit larceny.
Detectives later concluded Jalloh was responsible for Minter’s death and obtained a warrant charging him with second-degree murder, police said. He remains held without bond.
Repeat illegal immigrant offender had prior charges dropped, received suspended suspenses
In a March 2 statement, the Department of Homeland Security said Jalloh, a Sierra Leone national, entered the United States illegally in 2012 and was in the country without lawful status. DHS said Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged a detainer on Feb. 25 and that he received a final order of removal in 2020. The agency also said he had been arrested more than 30 times.
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the DHS policy to remove immigrants to ‘third countries’ that are not their own without giving them notice or an opportunity to appeal the decision is unlawful, according to CBS News.
According to NBC Washington, court records show Jalloh had previously been accused in an alleged rape in 2018 and four earlier stabbings. In February 2023, Jalloh pleaded guilty to malicious wounding after stabbing a 73-year-old man and was sentenced to two years in prison, with five years suspended, after having most charges in the case dropped after the victim failing to turn up during court hearing according to WJLA.
Stephanie Minter, born in Fredericksburg, was the mother of a son, Caden Montague. In her obituary, loved ones described her as ‘a happy, jolly individual, filled with love and adoration for her loved ones’ and ‘a beam of light in dark places.’ Her death, family members wrote, is ‘a loss felt throughout an entire family and a whole host of friends.’
Authorities to date have not discussed a possible motive in the mom’s stabbing murder.
Jalloh remains held on no bond, with ICE lodging a detainer requesting that Virginia not release the stabbing suspect.
