Commenter Lionel M. Hutz linked to a video yesterday in our post about the 1-year jail sentence handed down to the former Metrobus driver who struck and killed two women in February. Rusty over at why.i.hate.dc also linked to it this morning, and since then, the DCist Staff email list has been filled with a lot of phrases like “Wow”, “Holy crap!” and “That’s the single most horrific piece of video I’ve seen in a while.”

The video, containing footage taken by The National Archives Building security camera pointing directly at the crosswalk where Martha Schoenborn and Sally McGhee were run over and killed at 7th & Pennsylvania Ave NW on Feburary 14, 2007, is not for the faint of heart — though it’s far away enough that you don’t actually see any gore or anything of that nature.

This link will take you to a disclaimer about the graphic nature of the video, and a subsequent link to the video itself. Really upsetting stuff. A quick search on allwhois.com shows that the domain is registered to Martha Schoenborn, one of the victims, whose husband, Greg Schoenborn, has filed a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit against Metro in U.S. District Court.

UPDATE, 12/17: Greg Schoenborn contacted us both in comments and via email and said he had nothing to do with the posting of this video online. To clarify, whoever did register this url used the name Martha Schoenborn to do so, though Mr. Schoenborn’s statement suggests that person used the name without the knowledge of her husband.