Good morning, Washington. Once again, the MPD are accused of failing to notify the family of someone they assisted. The Post reports that D.C. police discovered Richard Morris, 61, in an alley with a serious head injury and helped get him to George Washington University Hospital. But despite his family having filed a missing persons report, they did not discover where he was for over a month, and only after Ward 8 Council member Marion Barry intervened on the family’s behalf and began sending emails to Chief Cathy Lanier. Morris later died after deteriorating from his head injury. This is the third such instance this year of the MPD failing to notify family members of someone being in the hospital — the previous two cases both involved people who had died.

Racial Slur Defaces African American Church: The Post says that the First Baptist Church of Chesterbrook in McLean has been defaced by a racial slur. The paper chose not to print the slur in question. The neighborhood seems surprised and shocked by such graffiti.

Foggy Bottom Escalators Should Improve Soon: We Love DC gets to the bottom of the escalator mess at the Foggy Bottom Metro station on Monday. Apparently one escalator has been turned off for a major motor repair, the second one was shut down on Friday after someone’s shoe got caught up in it, and then the third went down on Sunday and Monday when it wouldn’t move in both directions. WMATA hopes to have two of the escalators repaired this week.

Briefly Noted: Police release name of teenaged Southeast shooting victim … Woman’s car stolen in PG County while pumping gas after church … Dulles set to get new train system.

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