Man found guilty of killing 73-year-old at ATM in Fairfax County when he was 16

A jury returned a guilty verdict for a suspect who was just 16 when prosecutors say he fatally shot a 73-year-old man at an ATM in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Winston Nathaniel Lark IV was found guilty Thursday of first-degree murder and using a firearm in commission of a felony. The jury also had a choice of a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter.

The verdict comes more than four years after the killing.

The victim, Nelson Alexander, was on his way to work early on the morning of Oct. 20, 2021, when he stopped by an ATM in the 2900 block of Annandale Road in the Falls Church section of the county. There, police said Alexander was confronted and shot by Lark, who was 16 at the time.

A passerby found Alexander in a parking lot with an apparent gunshot wound to the upper body. He was rushed to a hospital, where he died three days later.

Lark was arrested the following spring and was indicted by a grand jury about a year after the killing.

Alexander was a loving, family-oriented man and an involved member of his church who sang in the choir, his loved ones said. In the wake of his death, they gathered for a vigil to honor his memory.

“He was a great person, he was a kind person, and he was a loving person,” his niece Patricia Alexander said at the time. “He loved his family, each and every one, and even those who were not his family, he loved each and every one of you.”

News4 reporter Aimee Cho contributed to this report.