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DC Jazz Festival Founder Charlie Fishman, 1942-2024
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Cocktail of the Month: The Handsome Devil
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Kitty Kelley Book Club : ‘John Lewis: A Life’
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Use D.C.’s Red Flag Gun Law to Prevent Tragedy
January 11, 2023
•It is difficult to imagine anything more frightful or tragic than having one’s own child murdered at school by a gunman who signaled his intentions publicly before the deed. Increasingly […]
Crime Report: Homicide, Robbery and Sexual Assault Investigations
October 3, 2022
•Despite efforts by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to address the city’s mounting gun-violence crisis, an alarming number of semi-automatic rifles, ghost guns and unlicensed handguns appear to be proliferating […]
Georgetown BID Employee Murdered
August 22, 2022
•On Aug. 11, MPD Second District Commander Duncan Bedlion appeared on the scene to answer reporters’ questions about an apparent drive-by double-shooting from a “silver car” in the Dupont Circle […]
Exclusive Interview: Duncan Bedlion, Commander Second District, MPD
July 13, 2022
•What’s happening with crime in Georgetown? The Georgetowner interviewed Georgetown’s top cop, Duncan Bedlion, Commander of the Second District of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to find out whether progress […]
Crime: July 4 Parade Shooting in Chicago, K St. Homicide, D.C. Crime Rate Under Fire
July 5, 2022
•National Headlines from this Fourth of July weekend are dominated by news of Chicago’s Highland Park Independence Day parade mass shooting, leaving 6 dead and dozens injured, ages 8 to […]
Police Seek Person of Interest in a Homicide: 3200 Block of M St. NW
February 8, 2022
•From the MPD: Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch seek the public’s assistance in identifying and locating a person of interest in reference to a homicide that occurred […]
Fund Set Up for Tarek Boothe, Killed Jan. 31 on M St.
February 3, 2022
•The young man fatally shot the evening of Jan. 31 near the corner of 33rd and M Streets NW has been identified as Tarek Boothe, who was from Alexandria and […]
Car Found on Water St. Involved in Shooting Outside Nats Park
July 21, 2021
•One of the automobiles involved in the Saturday night shooting, which wounded three persons outside Nationals Park July 17 on South Capitol Street, was recovered in Georgetown July 19. The […]