Police Investigate Genevieve Orange’s Suspicious Death

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — A woman was found dead in her apartment in Falls Church Thursday morning, according to the Fairfax County Police DepartmentIBSYS.nbcvideo.appendVideo(
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Detectives are investigating 29-year-old Genevieve Orange‘s death as a homicide, police said. She appears to have died from blunt force trauma to the upper body.

Officers found Orange’s body after they were sent to her building, the Prestwick in the 6100 block of Leesburg Pike, to make a welfare check.

Orange was a 2001 graduate of Virginia Tech. She was involved with the McLean Bible Church, according to a relative.

“All of us here at the Futures Industry Association were shocked and profoundly saddened at the news of Gini Orange‘s untimely death,” said John Damgard, president of the FIA, the D.C. trade association where Orange worked. “She was a terrific employee and she was very well-liked by her colleagues here in the office and everyone she worked with on a daily basis. We all miss her very much.”

Anyone with information about the case should contact Crime Solvers by phone at 866-411-TIPS/8477 or online at www.fairfaxcrimesolvers.org. Tipsters can also text “TIP187″ and a message to CRIMES/274637 or call Fairfax County police at 703-691-2131.