Yesterday, an important moment came between all the memorials and tributes marking the two-year anniversary of the massacre at Virgina Tech. Two victims' families filed lawsuits in Fairfax County. The families of Julia Kathleen Pryde and Erin Nicole Peterson had opted out of the $11 million settlement and had to meet a two-year time limit [...]

Yesterday, the U.S. Park Police were involved in a shooting of a District resident at 2nd and K Streets NE. The shooting took place in the early afternoon.
Davin Tarr was home working on his taxes. He was sitting on his couch in his 11th Floor apartment on Eye Street between 2nd and Third, he says, [...]

D.C. police have made a flier asking for information about the shooting death of Durval Martins. The 35-year-old was shot and killed walking home from Fox & Hounds in Dupont Circle yesterday morning.
The flier includes vital info [PDF] so take a look. As of yesterday afternoon, police had no suspects and no firm motive for [...]

We wrote about the Logan Circle murder earlier today. As many of you know, at around 3 a.m. this morning, a 35-year-old man was shot in the head and killed walking home from Fox & Hounds. The man's name is Durval Martins.
Acting Lt. Brett Parson was on the scene of the shooting, which took place [...]

The Green Line is really taking some hits lately. First there were the incidents this past weekend. And now a man was fatally shot yesterday afternoon near Howard University.
WJLA reports that the shooting took place at 4th and W Streets NW. The location is about a block from Howard University's campus:
"The shooting happened around [...]

Last night's brazen shooting outside of Marie Reed is, according to Councilmember Jim Graham, the first killing in Adams Morgan this year. Although, he notes, there has been violence. (Yeah, we know. Some of it pretty awful.)
Cops have taken to sitting in their cars in the dark area where Champlain Street dead-ends because it's a [...]

This past weekend, a series of shootings rattled Petworth. There was a shooting on Marlboro Place causing multiple injuries. A fatal shooting at Georgia and Allison. And a burst of gunfire at 8th and Crittenden (only a bunch of cars were shot up). It provoked a promise from D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier of [...]

For those of you following the rash of shootings in Petworth this weekend, Police Chief Cathy Lanier left this post on the MPD 4th District message board at 7:59 PM — less than a half hour after rounds were fired on the 800 block of Crittenden St., NW:
Let me assure everyone that this weekends violence [...]

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According to a message that went out to the MPD-4D listserv this morning from Lt. James Cullen, there was a fatal shooting last night on the 4500 block of Georgia Ave. NW around 9:00 p.m:
On Saturday, Nov. 8th, officers responded to the front of 4506 Georgia Ave., NW, for a shooting victim at [...]