ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WUSA9) -- An early morning Alexandria hotel fire sent around 200 people running for their lives, according to a Fairfax County Fire & Rescue Spokesperson.

Their crews responded to a three-alarm fire before 3 a.m. at the Quality Inn & Suites hotel located on the 8800 block of Richmond Highway.

Crews learned that the electrical fire started in an utility room and then spread to two floors of the hotel, impacting about 30 percent of the building.

Only one injury was reported with witnesses and firefighters telling WUSA 9, they are grateful things were not worse.

A man was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and one firefighter was taken to MEDSTAR Burn Center for treatment of minor burns.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WUSA9) -- The trial of a man accused of murdering a D.C. Department of Corrections official has ended in a mistrial.

A jury was unable to come to an unanimous decision Thursday in the case against Dawit Seyoum.

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Seyoum was accused of killing Carolyn Cross. Her body was found tied up inside her Alexandria apartment on Kenmore Avenue.

Police say the suspect lived in the same complex as Cross.

Cross was a deputy director of corrections in the District. They do not believe her job had anything to do with her murder.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WUSA9) -- A 40-year-old passenger who was not wearing his seat belt was killed in a car crash Saturday on Richmond Highway in Alexandria, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

Daniel Duarte Vasquez, of the Alexandria area, died as a result of his injuries from the crash, police said.

The accident occurred on Richmond Highway near Fairhaven Avenue around 7:15 a.m. Police say Vasquez was a passenger in a 1995 BMW.

Police believe the accident occurred when the vehicle was traveling south on Richmond Highway. Police say the vehicle drifted off the right side of the roadway, up onto a curb, striking a fire hydrant, and a phone pole.