After seeing unprecedented cases and hospitalizations, the region is seeing the death rate due to COIVID-19 climb. The good news is cases appear to have peaked.
“It’s an important statement first to honor the memory of someone who was just going from Point A to Point B like the rest of us and senselessly lost his life, and also to remind drivers and pedestrians that the roads and the sidewalks are for all of us.”
According to a new federal report, D.C. ranks highest in the country in terms of pedestrian fatalities in traffic accidents.
D.C. police are asking the public for help in their investigation of a fatal stabbing early this morning in the 1900 block of 9th St NW. The incident occurred around 2:19 a.m. Officers from the MPD’s Third District arrived to find an adult male suffering from a stab wound to the chest. A short time later the man was pronounced dead. As Borderstan correctly notes, this stretch of 9th Street, between U and T…
UPDATE 5:19 p.m. WMATA spokesperson Ron Holzer now says that this report isn’t totally accurate. Holzer says that the two operators were “taken out of service” for routine drug and alcohol testing, which is standard procedure after an incident of this magnitude. The employees were apparently never suspended or put on leave, according to Holzer, despite what the transit agency told the Washington Post earlier today. “Our review concluded that they conducted themselves in accordance…
Sad news from the Associated Press (via WaPo). Vladimir Djordjevic, the former manager of the Good Guys strip club in Glover Park, has died. Regular readers will recall the scary incident in November of 2007, when assailant Vasile Graure returned to Good Guys with a can of gasoline after having been kicked out of the club, and proceeded to set Djordjevic on fire. Graure was convicted of arson and assault a year later, and was…
A third suspect has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of Shaw Middle School principal Brian Betts. Montgomery County Police say they took Deontra Q. Gray, 18, of the of the 1300 block of Southview Drive in Oxon Hill, into custody on Tuesday and charged him first degree murder, one count of armed robbery, and one count of conspiracy to commit armed robbery. Two other 18-year-olds, Sharif Tau Lancaster and Alante Saunders,…
Amy Polk, pictured here with sons Adam (left), Brian and husband John, died Thursday in a fatal pedestrian crash in D.C.. A family spokesperson has confirmed that the woman who died in a pedestrian crash at First and M Streets SE on Thursday was Amy Polk, 42, of Takoma Park, Md. Polk is survived by her husband, John Robinette, and her two sons, Adam, 7, and Brian, 4. A private funeral will be held…
A pedestrian was fatally struck this morning near the intersection of First and M streets SE, not far from the entrance to the Navy Yard Metro station. D.C. police said the victim was an adult female, but have not released her identity. She was declared dead on the scene by emergency responders. The collision took place at about 10:30 a.m. this morning. The MPD’s major crash unit has been called to the scene and are…
Brian Betts. Photo by Bel Perez Gabilondo, courtesy DCPS The Post is now reporting that Montgomery County police chief J.T. Manger, while still waiting for the results of an autopsy, believes that the death of Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson principal Brian Betts was a homicide. He went on to say that the preliminary investigation leads him to believe it was most likely not a random killing. Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans…
