Victims mourned in D.C. slaying were 'a beautiful family'

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Daron Dylon Wint has been arrested and is suspected of torturting and murdering a family and their housekeeper in Northwest Washington D.C. Police say Wint once worked for Savvas Savopoulos at the company he founded. VPC


Police vehicles are seen outside a fire-damaged home where four people were killed last week in Washington, D.C.(Photo: Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images)


The members of a prominent Washington, D.C., family identified in a grisly quadruple murder were longtime members of a tight-knit, upscale community and churchgoers who volunteered at their children's schools, neighbors said.
Along with their three children, Amy and Savvas Savopoulos lived in a $4.5 million home in Washington's Woodley Park neighborhood, an exclusive section in the city's northwest quadrant, where high security, as well as the police and Secret Service, are a nearly constant presence. The neighborhood is near Vice President Biden's official residence.
Police identified the couple, 46-year-old Savvas Savopoulos and 47-year-old Amy Savopoulos, as victims in the slayings, as well as the couple's 10-year-old son, Philip, and a housekeeper, Veralicia Figueroa.
The Savopouloses are survived by two teenage daughters, Abigail and Katerina, who friends said were at their boarding schools when the killings took place. Philip was a student at Washington's St. Albans School, an exclusive all-boys private school.
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Neighbors said Amy Savopoulos volunteered regularly at her children's schools and helped raise money for them, according to The Washington Post. For the past decade or so, the couple worshiped at the nearby St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral.
On her Facebook page, Abigail on Mother's Day had posted a tribute to her mother, which said: "I am so grateful for everything you do. Thank you for always believing in me and supporting me. Thank you for the early morning crafts, upside down clowns on my birthday, gingerbread decorating parties, and for always showing up. ... Thank you for the past 19 years and I look forward to the many more to come. I love you so much."

Daron Dylon Wint, 34, of Washington<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: AP)

Coco Palomeque, a friend who lives in the neighborhood, told the Post that the Savopouloses were "a beautiful family."
"The community where they lived really loved them," she said.
Savvas Savopoulos was president and CEO of American Iron Works, a construction materials company based in nearby Hyattsville, Md. He was also a martial arts hobbyist, according to online posts, and was about to open a martial arts studio in nearby Chantilly, Va.
Savopoulos founded a financial services firm, based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, called Sigma Investment Strategies. A business associate told CNN that Savopoulos wanted to make Puerto Rico a permanent residence for the family. The family also owned a second home in St. Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. They owned land in St. Croix as well, where a subsidiary of his business operated, The St. Croix Source reported this week.
Police on Thursday arrested 34-year-old Daron Wint of Lanham, Md. They said Wint had worked as a welder for Savopoulos' construction materials company. Wint was taken into custody without incident late Thursday after a massive manhunt. Police also arrested Wint's brother, and sources told CNN that police found $10,000 in cash in the truck he was driving at the time. It wasn't immediately clear whether the money was connected to the Savopoulos family.
In Washington, the family was listed in the so-called Green Book, a who's who of Washington's social elite, CNN reported. Savvas Savopoulos raised money for, among others, U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat who said he has known the family for more than 20 years. In a statement, Van Hollen said, "My heart goes out to the Savopoulos family at this time of unspeakable tragedy. They were an important part of the community and will be deeply missed."
The Hill reported that Savopoulos and his wife had donated nearly $40,000 over the years to Van Hollen, according to public records. Those contributions included $10,800 for a Senate campaign that Van Hollen launched in March to succeed retiring Sen. Barbara Mikulski.
According to finance reports from the Federal Election Commission, the couple also donated $4,600 to Republican Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign and $5,500 to Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe's leadership PAC, Olympia's List, before Snowe's 2012 retirement. They also donated to Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Gus Bilirakis, both Florida Republicans; former Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.); and former Rep. Zack Space (D-Ohio), The Hill reported.
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