10 Shot 3 Dead in DC Tonight
Tuesday March 30, 2010
One shooting on Galveston St was probably not related. Is there
a full moon or something? Two Moscow subway female suicide
bombers, an FBI raid on a rapturite cult militia in Michigan, and
Minutemen withdraw from the US-Mexico border citing escalating
rightwing rhetoric combined with at least one inflammatory murder
of a border rancher by an illegal immigrant. The Minutemen said
they are withdrawing because they do not want to identify with
the rightwing talk or exacerbate vlence or frighten people. Putin
vows to ferret out the planners of the Moscow subway bombings.
InAthens, Greece, a bomb in a trashcan killed a boy. Same week
as healthcare reforms(no new "socialism"), Obama also got a
lot of college loan and grant reforms through, pretty mild again
but radical rightwingers are whining about loss of looting jobs
as loan reforms may roll back private looter jobs that resulted
from moving from grants and scholarships to loans, and now
back to grants to some extent, shooting a few looters in the legs.
Three killed in one night in Trinidad neighborhood prompted an
unconstitutional police checkpointing for months. Although SE
DC or Anacostia has more dangerous areas than any other part
of DC, this area where the nine shootings and three deaths(so
far) occured is a main thoroughfare two to four blocks from any
drug corner.
Mapquest.com does not even show any South Capitol St SE
address number above 1400, and both mapquest and google
try to divert us to East Capitol St NE.
Browsing cnn, cbs, ap, it seems that police chased a van in
some versions and a green car in others. In all accounts
three suspects were apprehended in a combined helicopter
and police car chase in which four police officers were
injured.
A few days ago there was quite a bit of shooting on Howard
Road, where another good samaritan like me received a shot
over the bow and I was called out by name and several men
came down and I casually looked them in the eye and went
about my business, slowly. I was getting attention because
I gave a ride to somebody they regarded as a rat for calling
cops on them because they were using the interior stairs
for seating for a social club, no problem, but were verbally
intimidating and scared a resident into having police ban
them from the stairs. They shoot in the air after cop cars
pass with their lights flashing, many times. I waited on
another corner for a person to show up, and an undercover
(I did not know so) asked if I wanted him to unlock the
building front door but I declined the offer. A rented van
asked a woman on the corner who I was, which did not
make sense right away, but then after a no-show I decided
to leave and then pretty soon the police jumped out all
over with guns drawn and stayed into the next day when
a horse-mounted cop joined in. Not sure what that was
really about, and police so far do not say they know of a
motive for tonight's driveby.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/30/washington-dc-shooting-mu_n_519381.html
At least six have been injured and three killed after a mass
Washington D.C. shooting this evening, BNO News is reporting.
BNO News cites the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department as saying a
call came in at 7:27 p.m. local time and "details were still coming in." The
incident reportedly took place at the 4000 block of South Capitol
Street SE.
AP reports that the incident was a "drive-by shooting" and three
arrests were made as a result. Six men and three women were shot, and
five of the victims had life-threatening injuries, according to
authorities. Potential motives for the shooting are not yet known.
At 8:20 p.m. local time, CNN's Nick Valencia tweeted, "JUST IN- CNN confirms 7
shot, 1 dead in
DC on 4000 block of South Capitol Street. Sounds like a drive-by type
shooting."
UPDATE (8:30 p.m. EST): The Washington Post posted about the
incident on its breaking news blog, noting gunfire broke
out on the southern tip of D.C., and that the incident "appear[s] to be
one of the most violent in the Washington area this year."
UPDATE (8:40 p.m. EST): CNBC's Ryan Ruggiero reports that police found nine
shot upon arrival at the scene.
UPDATE (8:45 p.m. EST): The NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C. reports that an
AK47-type weapon was used through a green sedan that police chased through
parts of D.C. and across the
Prince George's County line. NBC Washington is also reporting that four
police officers were injured pursuing the suspect.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36107950/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
3 killed, 6 hurt in Washington, D.C. shooting
4 police officers injured in pursuit of suspect's
vehicle; 3 arrested
The Associated Press
updated 12:34
a.m. ET March 31, 2010
WASHINGTON - Three people were killed in a
drive-by shooting that wounded six others in the nation's capital,
officials said late Tuesday.
One shooting
victim died at the scene in southeastern Washington, D.C., one was dead
on ar
