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The owner of Parks Flea Market in Bealeton was fatally beaten Friday in the parking lot of his establishment on U.S. 17 Date published: 11/15/2009
BY CATHY JETT
George W. Parks, who turned the southern Fauquier County landmark Hugo's Skateway into a flea market, was fatally beaten Friday night in his business's parking lot. Witnesses called the county Sheriff's Office at 8:19 p.m. to say the 87-year-old Bealeton man had been assaulted with a baseball bat and had suffered head injuries, Lt. James Hartman said yesterday. Members of the Lois Volunteer Fire Department, which is next door to the flea market on U.S. 17, had already responded when police arrived. Parks was flown by helicopter to Mary Washington Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Hartman said. Investigators identified a suspect in the slaying as Julian Burke, a frequent customer who goes by "Buzz" or "Buzzard." His last known address was on River Ridge Lane in Stafford County, Hartman said. The Fauquier deputies, with the help of the Stafford County Sheriff's Office, tracked down Burke at a motel on U.S. 17 in Falmouth, where he was arrested. Hartman said Burke has been charged with one count of murder, and is being held in the Rappahannock Regional Jail without bond. He has a Dec. 3 court date. The case is still under investigation, but it appears that it involved a dispute over money, Hartman said. He added that investigators heard that the baseball bat had been purchased at the flea market, but have not been able to prove it. Parks bought Hugo's Skateway and several adjacent commercial buildings on 33 acres south of the Bealeton Flying Circus from Hugo Stribling's heirs two years ago. Stribling's roller-skating rink and dance hall, with its 10-foot-tall white skate out front, had become a local landmark over the years. Parks opened a weekly auction and flea market on the property, and earlier this year Raymond and Crystal Carroll of Bealeton opened Carroll's Skating there as well. Anyone who saw Burke at the flea market and hasn't talked to the Fauquier Sheriff's Office is asked to call its criminal investigation office at 540/347-6870. Cathy Jett: 540/374-5407
you too saw what HE wanted you to see. Mr Burke is a very cunning, manipulative, deceiptful man. You saw only what was concocted. He was not a positive anything to society. His wife kept him on the straight and narrow and even then, he did things behind her back. He walked away from the home because the only thing he wanted was MONEY to feed his drug habit.
You seem to know so much about your UNCLE...or rather so little. You seem to know only an image shared with you, what....once a year (if that) for a few hours?
And he was grieving huh? WOW. You've really convinced yourself of quite a bit. Grieving he was not. Drugs HE WAS! You know that, your family knows that, and he knows it.
He was sick long before "his wife" died - and her dying didnt make him into anything he wasnt already.
that what your saying is ridiculous. There are people that are sick & have hard times but they don't go kill people. Klerose never called you any names either. All she did was state the obious. She said Buzz is sick (wich you admit) and evil, I hope you can also admit that what he did was evil. You say she better hope she doesn't lose her husband before she dies? She just had her father MURDERED! That's not bad enough? I think you trying to get sympathy for Buzz will be hard for the actions that he has done
George's funeral was today.Closed casket of course. George was so well loved the parking lot was overflowing. Everyone had a story to tell about how good and kind George was and how he touched so many lives. To have lost George from something normal, old age, illness, etc, would have hurt but to lose him in such a cruel inhuman way hurts twice as much. I pray that justice will be done. Now I have to explain to my grandaughter that the lollipop man is in Heaven handing out lollipops there.
I'm sorry that you can't see that your uncle is the DEVIL..
he was struck by evil and he allowed it. I'm sure you will find
many MORE things bad about your uncle. Things like this
don't happen from death of a loved one. You grieve but
don't kill, steal, rob, lie, and hurt others. I send my
blessings out to all the families that was hurt by this evil
man. Know that God will comfort you in your hard times.
The evil will die and justice will be served!
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