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The D.C. sniper attacks (also known as the Beltway sniper attacks) were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred during three weeks in October 2002 throughout the Washington metropolitan area, consisting of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, and preliminary shootings, that consisted of murders and robberies in several states, and lasted for six months starting in February ...
A DC Nike store, Safeway and ATM were targeted with explosives. Now the hunt is on to catch a hooded suspect. Monday 3 July 2023 16:30, Rachel Sharp. In the dead of the night over July 4 weekend, ...
Span of crimes. April 25, 1971 – September 5, 1972. Country. United States. State (s) District of Columbia. Date apprehended. Unapprehended. The Freeway Phantom is the pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer who murdered five girls and a woman in Washington, D.C., between April 1971 and September 1972. [1][2]
In the early morning of January 7, 2023, in Washington, D.C., the United States, Jason Lewis shot and killed 13-year-old Karon Blake. [1]Lewis, a Black 41-year-old father of four and longtime DC Parks and Recreation employee, had stepped onto his patio to investigate a possible home invasion at around 3AM when he saw Blake and two others breaking into parked vehicles along his street.
Public safety legislation unveiled Wednesday by local lawmakers in the nation's capital is aimed at bringing down spiraling violent crimes rates that have stoked public anxiety and prompted ...
Other widely accepted variations bound Brightwood on the east by 5th Street. [3] The DC Government's Citizens Atlas bounds the Brightwood Assessment Neighborhood to the south at Missouri Avenue. [4] Nearby neighborhoods include Shepherd Park and Takoma to the north, Manor Park to the east, and Sixteenth Street Heights and Petworth to the south ...
Landon Mion. September 10, 2024 at 5:28 AM. Police in Washington, D.C., said five suspects were taken into custody early Tuesday morning after a series of burglaries were reported in the district ...
The average violent crime rate in the District of Columbia from 1960 through 1999 was 1,722 violent crimes per 100,000 population, [10] and violent crime, since peaking in the mid-1990s, decreased by 62.5% in the 1995–2018 period (property crime decreased 54.0% during the same period). However, violent crime is still more than twice the ...