Vincent Orange, fighting Kwame Brown for Gray’s seat, went with a smaller Cadillac SUV than his competitor. What, he couldn’t afford an orange paint job?

While you were scarfing down a turkey roll or playing with that new Wii, the Metropolitan Police Department had a busy 24 hours, mostly responding and investigating incredibly depressing incidences of extreme violence involving young people. Police began their Christmas by identifying the decomposing body of a teenager on the 3000 block of Stanton Road SE, and opening an investigation into his death. Then, thanks to a witness stepping forward and providing additional information, the police were able to arrest and charge Jobe Toby for the 1993 murder of a teenager, LeCedric Gaino, in Columbia Heights. Finally, officers responded to a Christmas morning shooting at 5401 4th Street NW in which three were wounded, including a twenty-one year-old man from Upper Marlboro who was killed. Disturbing crime, a D.C. Christmas tradition? Bah humbug, indeed.

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