Who wouldn’t send their kids to Annandale?
Remember this claptrap about Annandale in Fairfax County, Virginia, the magically wonderful super-diverse school? Here’s a little dose of what one could call reality:
Three posters from the movie “Scarface,” the 1983 classic starring Al Pacino, decorate the walls of Tony Campos’s bedroom. A few model cars made by the 14-year-old are proudly displayed on a small dresser. His basketball and backpack sit on a small black leather sofa.
As he walked through the bedroom yesterday afternoon, Johnny Campos, 23, said it is hard to comprehend that his younger brother, who was slain Friday evening in what Fairfax County police said might have been a gang-related shooting, never will be back to pick up the basketball or listen to music.
“It is just as he left it,” Johnny Campos said. Except, he said, for the dozens of white roses, baby’s breath and carnations piled on Tony’s bed.
Fairfax police said yesterday that detectives are piecing together the moments leading up to the shootings that killed Tony and wounded two other boys, ages 13 and 15. Police did not release the wounded boys’ names and said only that they are recovering.
There have been no arrests, but police said they believe that the shootings were the latest spasm of gang violence in the region.
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Hassan Bah, 16, a friend from school, said Tony wasn’t known to belong to a gang. “He was a cool boy,” Bah said. “He had friends who were gang members but he didn’t hang with them.”
