The man who survived a violent rampage in a Virginia apartment where his father-in-law killed the man’s wife and mother-in-law, is speaking out for the first time.
On Friday, Santosh Basnet spoke to News4’s Drew Wilder inside a rehabilitation center as he makes a slow recovery. He now sits with his head stapled in mutiple places and both hands wrapped from the elbow down.
Basnet was outside the Margate Manor apartments in Fairfax County cleaning snow off his car in February.
When he came back inisde, he saw his wife Mamta Thapa, 33, on the ground bleeding with their 1-year-old child still in the room.
“I see my baby crying and running. I see some bloody stuff and I see my wife near the door, the main door,” Basnet said. “I can see the hit. I can see her head bleeding.”
When Basnet found Mamta Thapa on the floor bleeding, she was still alive and she was screaming for help.
“She was saying, ‘He killed, he killed all of us,'” Basnet said.
Basnet said he grabbed their child and called 911. As he went into another room, he tripped over his mother-in-law, Binda Thapa, 52, who was lying in a pool of blood on the floor. There, he found his father-in-law, Chhatra Thapa, 54, holding a cleaver.
Basnet said Chhatra Thapa swung the cleaver at him and he fought back.
Fairfax County police arrived and ordered Chhatra Thapa to stop attacking Basnet. When he refused, an officer opened fire and killed him moments after he killed his wife and daughter, accounding to Fairfax County Chief of Police Kevin Davis.
“I can’t imagine anything would compel any human being to butcher his own family like he did,” Davis said.
Basnet said his in-laws were having issues back home in Nepal. They moved in with Basnet and Mamta Thapa in November of last year. Stll, Basnet says he has no idea what caused his father-in-law to snap.
“I can hear the sound,” Basnet said. “I still can hear the sound.”
Since the attack, Basnet is in recovery and his family and the local Nepali community have supported him. An online fundraiser has brought in nearly $50,000 to support his recovery and help care for his son.
Basnet said he could not survive without this support but he’s concerned after the future when he’s raising his son without his wife.
“We had a great plan, a great future for the baby,” Basnet said. “But it could not last long for her.”
he Margate Apartment community held a vigil Friday night to honor Binda and Mamta Thapa.
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