Islamist Immigrant Murderer Allowed to Flee Country, Was Given ’48-Hour’ Leave From Mental Hospital

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In 2019, Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda stabbed his roommate Mohammed Hemmatian to death in their Vienna, Virginia home. He was found “covered in blood from head to toe,” and told police “I am guilty,” according to court records. Less than a decade later he’s escaped punishment and is back home in his native Tajikistan.

Court records show that Fairfax County was paying for an apartment for Toshpulodzoda to live in while on leave from his mental health facility. While on the 48-hour pass, and he bought a one-way ticket and fled to his country, which borders Afghanistan in Central Asia.

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Although Toshpulodzoda admitted guilt for the murder, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity after his attorney said he was “fixated on religious topics and he was illogical and nonsensical.

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In October 2022, the not guilty by reason of insanity judgment was entered “with the concurrence of” the county prosecutor, Democrat Steve Descano, who won office with the financial backing of George Soros.

In May 2024, Descano teamed up with the murderer’s lawyer to ask the judge to give him “permission for an escorted visit… to the Tajikistan Embassy in Washington, D.C. to obtain a passport.”

In 2025, the Fairfax County Community Services Board and Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute acknowledged that Toshpulodzoda was an illegal immigrant and murderer, but said “the Forensic Review Panel is of the opinion that Mr. Toshpulodzoda is an appropriate candidate for conditional release,” meaning being able to leave confinement for good. The “conditional release plan” was signed by Azure Baron, chair of the panel, and six other officials.

On June 11, 2026, Judge Stephen Shannon blocked the permanent release, writing that “the Acquittee remained mentally ill and in need of inpatient hospitalization” and “shall not be released from custody and inpatient hospitalization without further order of this Court.”

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Just days later on June 25, the mental hospital, which is operated by the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, authorized him for one of his “unaccompanied community visits not exceeding forty-eight hours,” which they had permitted since 2024, and which prosecutors said did not conflict with the ruling. The Department did not return a request for comment.

Descano’s chief of staff, Laura Birnbaum, told The Daily Wire that the prosecutor’s office helped him get a passport “for documentary purposes,” and that the not-guilty ruling “is made by a judge after reviews from multiple independent clinicians.”

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Since 2021, 15 murderers in Fairfax County, nine of them with foreign names, have been ruled not guilty by reason of insanity or not competent to stand trial, according to data compiled by Virginians for Safe Communities.

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