July 16, 2008
More Details on Fatal Shootings
More details on last night's fatal shootings came out this afternoon. The first, which happened at about 10:30 p.m. at 9th Street and Barry Place NW, right next to the Howard University campus, appears to have been an attempted carjacking gone wrong. The victim was 47-year-old Barbara Carl, who was riding in the passenger seat of her fiance's BMW when a group of six men approached the car. When Carl's fiance tried to drive away, one of the men opened fire on the car, and Carl was fatally wounded.
The second shooting happened just after midnight in the 1500 block of F Street NE. in Police found 19-year-old Robert Mallory lying in the middle of the street with multiple gunshot wounds. Several police officers were within a block of where the shooting occurred, but did not hear the gunshots.
Police are asking for help with information on both homicides. Call 202-727-9099 or 1-818-919-CRIME.
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Oh this is just swell.
Always good to see a map of a shooting where I can also see the location of a friend's house I left just a half hour earlier.
Still, I suppose it's slightly better than the shooting at 17th and Euclid, which was less than two blocks from my apartment.
Can't wait for more guns.
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Well these idiots chose a heck of a location to commit a murder. If the crime occurred at the location the map indicates, the victim was shot directly in front Howard Plaza Towers dorm, where there were undoubtedly plenty of witnesses. I hope they catch these fools.
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Great. I live less than a block from this.
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Uknow: Its the summer, the dorms probably don't have that many people in them right now. Also there is the whole stop snitching thing, but I would hope that Howard students would be above that sort of thing.
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Question...Why does the 1-818-919-CRIME number, have the area code for the San Fernando Valley?
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"Several police officers were within a block of where the shooting occurred, but did not hear the gunshots." Damn, even the police have stopped snitching.
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Witnesses? Yeah, right. Like that's ever going to happen in this town. This is the town that invented "shooting someone in the middle of a packed-to-capacity gogo club and 'ain't nobody seen nuthun.'"
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Shooting happened a couple of hundred yards further north, on 9th Street right behind Banneker High. The only witnesses would have been the rough-and-tumble types that hang out there after dark...and who might have been involved in the attempted carjacking themselves.
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Twenty-nine days until I move out of this godforsaken place. That F and 15th NE homicide is three blocks from where I live. Not as close as the shooting/fleeing/shooting event of May, but close enough.
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The lesson here is, if some piece of crap is trying to carjack you, run their worthless butt over and keep going.
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This isn't just near the Howard campus and dorms, it's also almost directly behind the 9:30 Club, and in fact it's on the route I usually take to get to the prime parking street for the club. I'd always assumed that the huge number of people walking and hanging out in front of the dorm there meant that area was relatively safe ... sort of depressing to learn that it isn't in such a dramatic and tragic fashion.
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Proportion, people. One horrible random incident does not an unsafe street make.
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amen, downtown rez. how many people moved out of georgetown because of the gentleman from britain being killed on q street a couple years ago?