Police have launched an investigation after a former federal prosecutor was found dead inside her home in Alexandria, Virginia, on Saturday morning.
At around 9:18 a.m. on the morning of March 22, officers from the Alexandria Police Department responded to a report of an unresponsive woman at a residence in the 900 block of Beverley Drive, according to a police statement. Responding authorities determined the woman, whom they identified as 43-year-old Jessica Aber, was deceased.
Until recently, Aber had been the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
President Joe Biden appointed Aber to the position, and the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed her appointment on Oct. 5, 2021. With days left in the Biden administration, Aber submitted her resignation, effective as of Jan. 20 at 11:59 a.m., moments before President Donald Trump’s inauguration….