Shooting - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:51:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Shooting - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 No Answers for Why DC Didn’t Break Up a Block Party That Turned Deadly https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/08/10/no-answers-for-why-dc-didnt-break-up-a-block-party-that-turned-deadly/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-answers-for-why-dc-didnt-break-up-a-block-party-that-turned-deadly Mon, 10 Aug 2020 17:44:50 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1196942 22 people were shot at a block party in Southeast DC on Saturday. 17-year-old Christopher Brown was killed; a 22-year-old off-duty DC Police officer was seriously injured. Over 100 rounds were fired at the scene at the 3300 block of Dubois Place SE. DC Police believe there were at least four shooters present all firing […]

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He Was Murdered in a Mass Shooting. Now His Book Is Finally Being Published https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/10/29/john-mcnamara-murdered-in-a-mass-shooting-now-his-book-is-finally-being-published/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=john-mcnamara-murdered-in-a-mass-shooting-now-his-book-is-finally-being-published Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:50:36 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=894366 For more than a decade, John McNamara worked on a book that was to cover the last century of DC-area high-school basketball. A longtime sportswriter for Annapolis’s Capital Gazette, he had gotten serious about the project after renowned Archbishop Carroll coach Bob Dwyer passed away in 2007; he realized that the window was closing to interview the […]

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Capital Gazette Tragedy Close to Home for Washingtonian Owner https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/07/27/capital-gazette-tragedy-close-to-home-for-washingtonian-owner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=capital-gazette-tragedy-close-to-home-for-washingtonian-owner Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:32:24 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=424811 On June 28, five people were killed in a shooting inside the newsroom of the Annapolis Capital Gazette. As my phone vibrated, I went a little numb. My family owned the Capital for nearly 40 years, from 1968 to 2007. The place is burned deep in my heart. My father, Phil Merrill, bought the paper […]

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The Terrifying Story of the Congressional Baseball Shooting https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/05/28/terrifying-story-of-the-congressional-baseball-shooting-steve-scalise/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=terrifying-story-of-the-congressional-baseball-shooting-steve-scalise Mon, 28 May 2018 22:00:10 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=382526 The first shot ripped across the baseball diamond at 7:06 am. Powww! “What the f— was that?” said Representative Rodney Davis. It was the last practice before the Congressional Baseball Game, a clear June morning, and the Republican team was wrapping things up. Standing near home plate, Texas congressman Roger Williams, the head coach, had […]

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I Was at the Montgomery Mall During the Shooting. This Is What It Was Like Inside. https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/05/06/i-was-at-montgomery-mall-during-shooting-eulalio-tordil/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-was-at-montgomery-mall-during-shooting-eulalio-tordil Fri, 06 May 2016 19:48:27 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=191816 The buzz started in the aisles at Nordstrom in Westfield Montgomery Mall at 11:30 AM. Shoppers started getting messages on their phones that there were police outside. Then the gates to the mall’s doors went down. We were still not sure what was going on. Salespeople seemed as baffled as shoppers. Then the gates to the […]

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