A Tajik national committed to a psychiatric facility after being found not guilty by reason of insanity in his landlord’s killing was allowed to leave twice — once to obtain a passport, once to visit an apartment — before fleeing the United States entirely.
Abdulloi Doniyor Toshpulodzoda had been held at a mental health facility in Falls Church, Virginia, following the stabbing. But the system failed at multiple points, and now he’s back in Tajikistan — beyond the reach of U.S. law.
“There’s a failure in the system somewhere along the way.”
Rep. Donald Beyer, D-Va., whose district includes the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute where Toshpulodzoda was housed, admitted the obvious when pressed by Fox News Digital.
“I don’t know whether it’s failure to put [Toshpulodzoda] in the mental hospital or the hospital didn’t have the right security to keep them there,” Beyer said. “But no, we don’t want bad guys on the loose.”
Toshpulodzoda was allowed an escorted visit to the Tajik embassy in Foggy Bottom, DC, in 2024. Later, he was granted access to an Alexandria apartment — where he obtained an airline ticket to Dushanbe and disappeared.
The case raises hard questions about sanctuary policies and deportation. Beyer pushed back on the idea that Fairfax County operates as a sanctuary jurisdiction, and he defended Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano — the Soros-backed DA currently under DOJ investigation for allegedly shielding illegal immigrants from consequences.
Beyer also rejected calls that Toshpulodzoda should have been deported rather than committed to a psychiatric facility.
“Deportation doesn’t seem sufficient punishment for someone whose [committed] a major felony,” Beyer told Fox News Digital.
But deportation would have prevented him from escaping back to the country he came from — on his own terms, with no accountability.
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, who represents neighboring Loudoun and Fauquier counties, said he’s been “pretty consistent” that undocumented criminals should be held accountable and that officials should consider deportation.
“If someone’s undocumented and they committed a crime, that they should be held accountable for the crime and we should look into whether they should be deported at that point.”
But Subramanyam added that not every crime warrants automatic deportation — officials must go “case by case,” he said, especially for minor offenses like moving violations.
“In the instance of violent crime, for instance, they need to be held accountable,” Subramanyam said.
He also called for accountability on both sides — for criminal suspects and for ICE agents who “do the wrong thing.”
Subramanyam cited the case of Renee Good, an anti-ICE activist in Minnesota who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in January after officials said she tried to strike him with her car while shadowing immigration enforcement operations.
“I want to make sure that if an ICE officer does the wrong thing that they’re held accountable and there’s not a cover up for them,” Subramanyam said.
Laura Birnbaum, a spokesperson for Descano, told Fox News Digital that the office did not oppose Toshpulodzoda’s escorted visit to the embassy in 2024 but has successfully argued multiple times in court against his outright release.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Tajik embassy for comment.
