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We mentioned it briefly this morning, but readers have been asking for more about the shooting that happened Monday evening on the infamous 1400 block of Girard Street NW, in front of the Columbia Heights Rec Center. The Post has the basic outline, which is that at about 7 p.m., a group of young people, at least one of whom was wearing a ski mask, opened fire on another group of teens who were standing outside the Rec Center. The barrage of gunfire indicated that the suspect seemed to be "shooting indiscriminately," according to Inspector Edward Delgado of the 3rd Police District.
The only injury was to a 16-year-old male, who was grazed in the hand. He is expected to make a full recovery.
In an email to the 3rd District list, Ward 1 Council member Jim Graham said he had been told by police that four shots struck the windows of the Rec Center, and that the shooting appeared to be gang related. A 17-year-old, Paul Jones, was shot and killed on Friday night just blocks away, on the 1300 block of Columbia Road NW.
The recent shootings have led to renewed hand wringing on the 3rd District email list about gang activity at 14th and Girard, long one of the city's most violent corners.
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Yesterday evening at 5:50pm I walked up 15th St and turned right at the Rec Center. There was a police car parked at that very corner. An officer stood on the pavement looking alternately up 15th St and along Girard St, as if waiting for something to happen. Hmmm...
but they built a target and a five guys....why is all still ghetto and shit?
They've already smashed in the glass at Five Guys.
because the area is full of public housing, which spawns rival crews, which means fighting over turf and preying upon the public. get rid of public housing and that area improves enormously, and does it almost overnight.
lol i know i was being sarcastic
and i saw that at five guys the other day...i was not shocked.
Considering even U street, which i think most consider fairly gentrified by now, has seen a recent up-tick in crime, I think the chances of things simmering down in col heights is some time away...
I know it's very un-PC, but I have to agree with you. Get rid of the public and sec-8 housing around there, and I bet you see a drop in crime.
Seems like any post about crime automatically triggers a response about public housing, how public housing causes crime, etc. To be clear, well-run, well-managed public and otherwise subsidized housing is NOT associated with an increase in crime. A large share of public housing residents are elderly or disabled, and many of them work. PLEASE can we stop making blanket judgments about public housing and public housing residents?
[snip] To be clear, well-run, well-managed public and otherwise subsidized housing is NOT associated with an increase in crime. [end snippy]
No argument here, but this statement is quite irrelevant to the conversation. See, Columbia Heights is in Dodge City, and if you're waiting to find something in this festering hole that is well managed or well run, you're going to die a disappointed soul.
Fair enough!
It's not necessarily the people on the lease, but the grandkids/baby daddys/other hangers on associated with the people in that apartment that cause issues and can't necessarily be barred from a building that cause a lot of problems.
The allure of the Target almost convinced me to buy a place there. Thankfully I bought in Brookland. Have yet to regret it. No amount of flashy retail establishments will change that fact that CH/Petworth is smack in the middle of a turf battle.
I was at The Target getting supplies around 7p.m. last night. The streets were filled with your usual barrage of street idiots and shoppers. The walls of Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant are once again being tagged with gang graffiti. The police are very aware. It's a clash between the ghetto kids and anchor babies. No love lost here. They hang out near the Columbia Heights subway station. The cops clear them out and they respawn somewhere else. They run back and forth btwn the Tivoli and the subway. There's going to be a lot more violence in the future. It's the process of elimination. A few steps off the path of Darwin.
I've definitely noticed the graffiti as well. It's all over the bus stops along 16th Street.
Columbia Heights: gentrifying... into Wheaton
alright, who thinks that we've reached a point where it might be worth it to have some loitering laws on the books?
imgoph: define "loitering laws". As in, i walk past trinity towers on 14th st. every day to and from the columbia heights metro where there are at least two (possibly 3) "NO LOITERING" signs with people stoop-sitting right beneath them.
Yeah, let's clear out the poor folks! Interesting how you get one shooting and suddenly all the liberals turn into worse-than-Republicans...
I'm a poor folk. They are thugs. There have been shootings and stabbings for the past 3 months in this general area. This is just the beginning.
We're clearing out the poor folks because getting shot by a rich thugs in an Escalade is far preferable to getting shot by gangs from public housing.
I know that's sarcasm, but at least rich thugs have something to lose and therefore give pause before taking action. These thugs have nothing left to lose and act accordingly.