A man involved in a dispute with his wife fired shots Wednesday through the front door of a Northern Virginia day-care facility with 70 children inside, wounding his wife and another woman, police said.
Fairfax County police arrested Julio Pascual Sejas, 41, of Arlington County. They said the women's wounds were not considered life-threatening. No one else was hurt in the shooting, which occurred at West Springfield KinderCare, a preschool and day-care center in the 8500 block of Bauer Drive.
"The children were not within sight of this event," Deputy Police Chief Brooke Wright said, adding: "It doesn't appear that any of the kids have any indication that anything even happened here today. They were jovial. They were taken out side doors. They didn't even see, or appear to see, the broken front door."
Police said they received a call about the shooting at 2:14 p.m. Wright said Sejas went to the day-care center, where his wife works, and asked to speak with her. He then fired three shots through the closed front door after his spouse refused to let him in, striking her and the other woman, Wright said. He fled in a black SUV.
Police obtained an arrest warrant charging Sejas with two counts of aggravated malicious wounding, two counts of felony firearm use and three counts of shooting into a school. They said he was taken into custody about 6:40 p.m. after an hours-long search.
The victims were being treated at a hospital late Wednesday afternoon, Wright said. She said police did not immediately know the nature of the dispute between Sejas and his wife or whether there is a history of domestic violence involving the couple.
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