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Edward Bland Arrested For Killing Leann Harris, Asia Payne
More details have been released in a double murder Tuesday morning, April 2 in Manassas.
Edward James Jackson Bland, 36, stole a vehicle from a man at gunpoint around 12:45 a.m. on the 8100 block of Portwood Turn in Manassas, county police said.
Sometime before then, Bland is believed to have shot and killed Leann Harris, 34, and Asia Payne, 22, whose bodies were found in a nearby home hours later, when the stolen vehicle broke down near I-66 and I-81, authorities said.
Bland walked to a nearby convenience store where authorities were notified, and the vehicle he was driving was confi…