Yesterday we noted that four fatal shootings had been recorded in the city over the weekend, and now there are two more to report. The Post says that a 20-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday in the 300 block of 34th Street SE, bringing the weekend total to five (one of which has already seen an arrest made). And the AP/WJLA bring our attention to another killing early this morning: 26-year-old Anthony Reginald Ford was shot and killed of the unit block of 58th Street SE at about 1 a.m.

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Did anyone doubt this would happen once they started bragging about the fewest murders in DC since 1989?
Um, no. As a teacher, I've observed that telling a student he's doing great is usually followed by failure of inexplicable proportions.
There has to be a name for this phenomenon.
Let's just call it "the dcist effect."
Never cross the Anacostia. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were going all the way.