A chilling first-hand account of Monday’s Metro accident.
Two arrests in murders dating back to 1999.
Six officers of the Park Police are on leave after the NE shooting of Trey Joyner.
Texting in VA will mean a fine.
Archive for June, 2009
In a week where one Metro car tragically and fatally rear-ended another, the nation’s Democrats passed a sweeping energy reform bill after a nasty floor fight and an extremely close vote, riots and renewed debates continued to explode in Tehran, Eastern Market reopened (with A/C) and the world bid fare-thee-well to Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson, an Alexandria man was picked up after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms accused him making many, many guns fall off the back of many, many trucks.
Also:
Montgomery County roads closed, PD gathering due to a man barricading himself inside an apartment.
Police investigating a possible homicide in fatal Suitland shooting, and another in Capitol Heights.
Montgomery County PD desk duty hours waning, according to Montgomery PD officials.
US Park police officers involved in last month’s fatal shooting of a man in the Trinidad neighborhood have been placed on paid leave.
And finally, this Washington Post article explains how two men were arrested during the week for murders that occurred in the late 1990s. Each of these crimes, much like the tallboys we’ve got ready to wash away an odd and troubling week, was known as a cold case.
All we’ve got for today is a shooting and a stabbing in Rockville. Their wounds weren’t life threatening, and police are currently investigating 9 people.
Henry Angulo-Gil has been sentenced to life without parole in the murder of a Hyattsville man, Carlos Millan, in 2007.
Mayor of Berwyn Heights, Cheye Calvo, is filing a lawsuit against the county’s sheriff’s office and police department for a SWAT raid which resulted in the mayor’s dogs shot dead.
Melvin Jackson, Jr., a DC Deacon, will testify at his trial in the murder of a French woman two decades ago.
James von Bronn will maybe appear in Federal Court?
Two Red Line metro trains collided between Fort Totten and Takoma Park. Dozens were injured and at least four people were killed, said Mayor Adrian Fenty.
How did this happen?
According to Metro spokewoman Lisa Farbstein, the two trains were both headed in the same direction. One rear-ended the other. The female operator of the trailing train died.
“Obviously something went terribly wrong for two trains to be on the same track,” Farbstein said.
Sure put a damper on my evening commute.
Young People on Fenty’s rejected crime bill: “the measures wouldn’t have addressed the root causes of why youths are drawn into gangs or crews.”
“A lot of times, you’re scared for your safety and you don’t know if someone’s going to jump you,” said Deangelo Edwards, 18, a junior advocate for the Alliance of Concerned Men’s Safe Streets Initiative who grew up at the notorious Seventh and O streets NW, an area that has long been a trouble spot for crime. “So there’s nothing else to do besides join a gang.”
Following a spate of shootings in Columbia Heights, residents are worried. Read a first-hand account of a blogger who was in the Metro station when Thursday’s shooting occurred at Urban Bohemian.
Speaking of blogs, here’s one that wants to know Who Murdered Robert Wone?
PG County — a man was shot to death, and police say circumstances seem to point in the direction of self-defense.
Poor book-keeping with MPD.
When your apartment is busted into because someone on the SWAT team confused apartment 201 with 202, a “couple of movie passes” seems somewhat inadequate.
Alright, folks. We’ve got some ground to cover.
A D.C. fire captain was convicted of rape Friday. The 48-year-old was accused of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman half his age. What’s more, it was a friend of his stepdaughter, who happened to be throwing the party that night.
Hundreds turned up Friday for the funeral of the slain Holocaust Museum guard.
Meanwhile, the judge delayed the hearing for the shooter in that case. The 88-year-old man was shot in the face in the incident, but is expected to survive.
Police arrested a 19-year-old intern Saturday, who was connected to some shootings near the Columbia Heights Metro station. No one died in the incident, but the guy happened to be working for Councilman Jim Graham. He ended up turning himself in after Graham caught wind of the act.
There are now a thousand more handgun models that are allowed in the city. Thank goodness for that.
Not really crime, but worth mentioning: protests and more protests related to the Iranian election.
Night club stabbings in Northeast.
And finally, thousands of dollars in fines from misdemeanors gone missing, the Examiner reports. D.C. police officials have no clue where the money is.
So those of you were were pining for a way to keep tabs on the area’s sex offenders: breath easier.
The Examiner picked three area fugitives from the FBI’s most wanted list.
The city continues to dump millions of dollars into incarcerating teenaged criminals.
1700 Block of L St. NE — shooting in Trinidad left one dead, yesterday afternoon.
Unless you’re staff at one of Virginia’s correctional facilities, no more smoking for you!
Muggings and pistol-whippings somewhere in the District, although the article is unclear as to which S-Street they’re talking about … aren’t there a few?
Glenn Wade, of Woodbridge, has been arrested in the shooting at an employee parking lot — it’s still not yet determined who shot William Anderson.
Flashing headlights — illegal, or nusiance? So a lawyer named Mark Zaid who flashed his tickets, got everything dismissed, and now wants an apology or he’ll sue. Overreaction, much?
Good evening, people.
The DC council smacked down the provision in Fenty’s crime bill designed to quell gang violence.
From CBS-9:
At-Large Councilmember Michael Brown said that he lives in Ward 3, near Tenley Circle and thinks that while police won’t be arresting large numbers of white youth standing on corners in his neighborhood, they might unfairly profile black youth in communities east of the river.
Unrelatedly, the Council also wants the Holocaust Museum shooting filed as a hate crime.
John Hinckley, who attempted to assinate Reagan almost 30 years ago and was since commited, has been granted more leave from the psychiatric hospital and even has permission to apply for a drivers license. Seems like Dude’s been in there for almost three decades for a reason, you know?
