Lashawn Yvonne Carson was found guilty of shooting Dante Thomas in October.
Police arrested a suspect in a March 11 shooting at the IHOP in Columbia Heights neighborhood in which the victim was the subject of anti-gay harassment, Mayor Gray and D.C. Police Chief Lanier announced Monday.
Nearly 700 people marched through the streets last night in response to recent violent crimes targeting gay and transgender victims. The march garnered the attention of D.C. Council members and D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier.
Galvanized by recent anti-gay hate crimes, several hundred activists are planning to a rally and march tonight in support of the victims. About 600 people so far have signed up on the event’s Facebook page.
The Metropolitan Police Department said at a press conference Thursday evening it is making headway in investigations of three recent violent crimes in which two victims were gay men and another was a transgender woman.
The shooting of a man at the Columbia Heights IHOP early Sunday and an assault on an individual Monday in Park View are being investigated as anti-gay hate crimes. But an assault Monday on a transgender woman is not currently being investigated as a hate crime.
D.C. police are still looking for two people in connection to an early morning shooting at the Columbia Heights IHOP on Sunday that left a man injured, writes WJLA.
Drop everything and start thinking about that boysenberry syrup. Tomorrow is National Pancake Day, so forget your lunch appointment and break out the extra roomy jeans, because IHOP will be serving up free short stacks.
For those bummed out by another NFL season that left the Redskins as pathetic as ever and those hated New York Giants in the Super Bowl, maybe some free ice cream will help.
According to Stephen Bennett, the director of operations at the IHOP in Columbia Heights, March 1st is National Pancake Day and the chain’s Columbia Heights location will be offering up free shortstacks of buttermilk pancakes. (Well, I know where DCist will be publishing from that Tuesday morning.) You may be wondering: was this post just an excuse to feature staceyviera‘s Rooty Tooty pancake porn? Uh, maybe.