[af_vet_1981]

Pat, I’d like to buy a MOTIVE and solve the puzzle.

A married pair of highly decorated Army colonels — one a former White House nurse — were gunned down in their front yard in Virginia during a dispute with two young men, cops say.

Suspected killers D’Angelo Strand, 19, and Ronnie Keandre Marshall, 20, were apparently after the couple’s son when they executed Dr. Edward McDaniel Jr., 55, and his nurse wife, Brenda McDaniel, 63, in the Fairfax County suburb of Springfield around 9:20 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said

“Two pillars of our community — of our country, really — were gunned down viciously in their own front yard,” Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said at a press conference Thursday.

“Two full colonels were murdered in a residential neighborhood community. And for what? That’s what got us shaking our heads.”

Ronnie Keandre Marshall (right) and D’Angelo Strand (left). D’Angelo Strand (left) and Ronnie Keandre Marshall Fairfax County PD Davis said the suspects worked with a relative of the couple and that the motive for the slayings involved some kind of “dispute.”

On Monday, two days before the heinous crime, Brenda McDaniel apparently called 911 to report a “burglary’’ and told the dispatcher that “the subject is after her son and that [the son] is with them upstairs,’’ NBC-TV reported.

The female caller said she and her husband had a shotgun and that the “subject’’ was in the basement, the outlet said.

[Salvavida]

Stil missing the motive. Why was he after their son?

[Jane Austen]

Sad what happened to them.

[Robert DeLong]

D’Angelo Strand (left) and Ronnie Keandre Marshall

[apocalypto]

RIP. Tragic, and a loss to this country.