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The sounds of gunfire rang out across the Shaw neighborhood Wednesday evening, leaving one man with a bullet graze injury to the head. WJLA picked up a tiny fragment of the story, but more information was on offer via messages to community email lists from the MPD's Third District Commander, Inspector Jacob Kishter. Kishter reported that D.C. police responded to the sounds of gunshots at approximately 5:30 p.m. near the corner of 7th and O Streets NW, and then shortly after that, while officers were searching for a possible shooter, more gunshots could be heard at 5th and O Streets NW.
Then just a couple hours later, at approximately 8:15 p.m., an adult male was grazed with a bullet as a result of gunfire in the 1700 block of 7th Street NW, not far from the entrance to the Shaw Metro station. This shooting, according to Kishter, went down despite the fact that officers were in the exact same block at the time. The patrol officers had been placed in that location ever since Sunday, when gunfire was heard at 8th and S Streets NW. No injuries were reported in that earlier incident.
All of this adds up to an extremely worrisome situation for Shaw residents (of which this author is one). The locations of the earlier gunfire on Wednesday, at 7th and O and 5th and O, immediately bring to mind the on again, off again beef between the two gangs associated with those corners. Whether the bullets flying near the Metro stop are related, we don't yet know, but the last few days have certainly marked the return of gun violence to the neighborhood.
Kishter said the grazing victim from last night was transported to an area hospital in stable condition. The victim is going to be charged with a drug offense, he said.
Anyone with information about this shooting is encouraged to call MPD at 202-727-9099.
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When is gunfire a "barrage"? While I am at it-how fast do you need to fire to "spray" an area with bullets?
How many guns constitute a cache? At what point does the cache become an arsenal?
It's really more a "hail" rather than a "barrage." I hear barrage and I think Cockneys huddled in trenches at Ypres. In DC, it's more like idiots thinking they're in the movies and emptying all 19 rounds and hitting one old lady in the shin.
I figure you need at least two guns to have a cache. Any more and you have a stockpile. Kinda like how everyone who has bleach, ammonia, and lead pipe under their sink has a stockpile of "bomb making materials."
I'll see if I can find it, but there was an article in a New Hampshire paper recently about police confiscating a "weapons cache", including bomb making material some guy had in his home. He had...
A handgun with "over 200 rounds of ammunition!"
A folding knife
A holster
A kitchen knife
said ammonia.
the housing projects at those locations need to be removed. warehousing the poor in terrible conditions is a big factor here.
Tell that to the churches that own a majority share of them.
or the church members who run the ANC there?
Divided ANC's don't have that much power.
Look, just because high-rise poverty storage boxes have fallen out of favor doesn't mean we have to throw the baby momma out with the bathwater. All these Johnsonian Great Society programs need is a couple more decades and they'll work just fine. Honest injun. Now, would you like to watch me hold my dog by the ears or look at my surgery scar?
By poor you mean the bloggers, right?
http://outside.in/public/bloggiest_neighborhoodsoh god, that was dated the second it came out. how many neighborhood blogs are still active in shaw now? not nearly as many as there used to be.
A "barrage" of gunfire and people only get grazed? Do we need to remind gangbangers of the correct way to hold their illegal firearm?
Thugs can't shoot-especially in a pressure situation. Most of the time it is the first time they've shot the gun.
There is a reason you never read about "stray bullets" killing innocent bystanders when fired by people who own their guns legally. Doesn't matter, however.
Well, I don't know that that's a fair comparison. Keep in mind that when you're accidentally shooting your wife because you heard a noise downstairs, you're like 15 feet away, you know. (I'll leave out the fantasy where you totally pull a handgun on a mugger and show them what's what, because usually both parties do manage to get shot in that situation.)
But, seriously, free, weekend, no questions asked, DC Parks & Rec combat pistol technique classes. Turn the whole gang handgun problem into less of a public hazard and more of a self-cleaning-oven kind of thing.
Yes, bullets always wind up in the correct bodies when they're fired from the barrel of a pro. Just ask Pat Tillman. Well, I guess you'll have to ask his family instead.
In both your and WOV's examples, the bullet hit the intended target. They were f'd in the head for picking the wrong target-but hit it they did. Sad.
You must have a different definition of "intended target" than me. I always thought "intended target" meant "guy I want to kill".
Well, the NRA wants to set up marksmanship training programs but "the man" says they can't. So until the ANCs allow indoor shooting ranges in DC, get used to the outdoor version.
DC's been in need of a better class of criminal for some time now. Any way we can import some from NYC or maybe some of those Laotian gans can set up shop downtown. That way, you've got the added benefit of decent NYC slices and pho along with gunmen with a better than 50% accuracy rate when it comes to drivebys.
I'm still trying to figure out why guns are not more effective at deterring gun theft.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/14/AR2009101401325.html
I mean, if a gun can't even protect itself, what good is it?
Seems kind of cold to charge the victim with a drug crime. But for the fact that he got hit, would there have been a case against him? Oh, sure, he could have been "Terry stopped" at any point in time--I'm just saying it seems like crappy luck: there you are minding your (illegal drug) business and some punk shoots you. Next thing you know, you're getting booked for posession with intent to distribute.
Can't we just say taking a bullet to the head is punishment enough and call it a day?
Then again, I guess this illustrates one way to deter drug sales in up-and-coming places like Columbia Heights, Petworth, etc.--shoot the dealers and the rest will sort itself out. All you urban frontiers-folk, pay attention. Time to put grandfather's limited edition Benelli over-and-under duck hunting shotgun to good use--gentrification!
How about they drop the charge if he gives up the shooter's name? Deal?
He should've stayed on his corner! Next time he gets 4 stitches!
We need Omar Little in DC.
Give me my guns and my vote!
How about they drop the charge if he gives up the shooter's name? Deal?
Oh, I like that. We're all familiar with the syllogism that, in DC "snitches get stitches". No arguments there. But it would seem in cases where injuries sustained required medical attention, particularly sutures, one would have already "prepaid" in the form of stitches already received. Therefore, one might argue the victim would be entitled to one retroactive "snitch", nunc pro tunc, to nullify the criminal charge. Only problem, I suppose is one of administration--I mean, how would the victim indicate he had a bona fide snitch coming to him? Carry around symbolic megaphone with a bullethole in it? I'm at a loss for ideas on that.
Ron M says it's not snitching if you're not lying on some one. I like that definition.
Here's my solution: When a gunshot victim is receiving medical treatment, I give him a shot of Sodium Pentothal. I then ask the "victim" who shot them and THE CASE IS SOLVED!!! Now get Cathy Lanier on the phone, I just found me a job!
Ah, the mickey in the morphine trick! Layer on a private room with surveillance, undercover Vice (as the sympathetic sponge-bath giving naughty nurse), and it might just work!
Anyone else see Goldfinger on cable this morning?
Tibbs's mother, who spoke about her son on condition of anonymity out of concern for her safety...
Umm WaPo? Didn't you pretty much ruin that whole anonymity thing when you said "Tibb's mother"
Just call her Mrs. Tibbs.
Me and Mrs. Tibbs. We got a thing...goin on.
[BANG!]
and people wonder why this city bends over backwards to accomodate new condo developments in formerly blighted neighborhoods. I am 100 percent OK with making this PG county's problem.
I was at the Shaw Giant last night and right as a was leaving there was about 6 or 7 shots in succession.
"This shooting, according to Kishter, went down despite the fact that officers were in the exact same block at the time." Not surprising. Cops sitting in their patrol cars do little to deter crime. Even though they were on the same block, they either weren't able to do anything, or chose to do nothing, because they weren't actually on the street where they could see what was going on. Sometimes they are literally asleep at the wheel.
Aw come on!! It was chilly yesterday and it looked like rain!!
... and if you didn't hear, there's an epidemic of the SWINE FLU going around.
Tuesday night: "MPD reports a confirmed shooting at 700 N ST NW. The victim is a female shot in the lower body. The intersection is closed and traffic diverted to M ST and O ST. NW. Traffic diverted East and West bound on both streets. The victim is conscious and breathing."
Saw a ton of every type of cop car, marked and unmarked, go screaming by on 7th and Q- had a sinking feeling that this was the case after last week.