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Good morning, Washington. The city is still trying to piece together what exactly happened to Brian Betts, the 42-year-old principal of Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson who was found dead at his Silver Spring home on Thursday night. The Washington Post now reports that after an autopsy performed in Baltimore, a chief medical examiner concluded that Betts had been killed by at least one gunshot wound. Meanwhile, more statements of regret at the loss of the popular principal continue to roll in; Betts, who had been featured on an NBC Nightly News segment about Michelle Rhee’s Capital Gains program in 2009, certainly seemed like exactly the kind of educator that the public school system could use more of.

In other news this morning:

>> City Paper has some details on the upcoming, Fenty budget-imposed cutback at the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency which will find 54 agency employees soon looking for new jobs.

>> Danny Glover (yes, the actor) was arrested in Gaithersburg yesterday while participating at an SEIU-organized rally against food service company Sodexo. Of course, this meant it was open season on Lethal Weapon jokes, most people forgetting that Hollywood making three Weapon sequels was a cruel enough joke already.

>> Website takes its official place alongside toothpaste and doorknob at the top of the list of compound words that read much better as one word than two.