Sunday, February 11, 2007
Police: Teen Shot Himself
The 17 year old who who shot and wounded his aunt before fleeing and encountering police was stuck down by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Police initially believed that one of them had delivered the fatal shot, but closer examination and witness accounts confirmed the boy as the shooter. The teen, Kevin Thomas, lived at 5th and K, but shot himself after running about a block to 6th & I. Mr. Thomas would have turned 18 today. Read the Post story.
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Seems to be an abundance of crime in the H St. area lately (two murders, two more wounded, home invasion, shots fired at police, house fire, bicyclist hit). Anybody have any ideas as to what's going on?
More accurately I think the H Street area has had 1 murder (the shooting in the 900 block, which resulted in the woman referenced below being shot in the hand)& 2 shootings resulting in injury (the woman shot in the hand, and the woman shot by her 17 year old nephew during a domestic dispute --who then shot himself). The injured bicyclist (who was hit almost hit a mile from H Street) was hit by the teen who fired the shots at police (this is also the source of the home invasion, which was practically in SE Capitol Hill). Not sure about the house fire. Where was it, and was it accidental, or arson (you comment seems to suggest arson)?
During monthly Police Service Area (PSA) 102 meetings, we track, over a two year period, crimes in several catagories reported to MPD each month. These catgories include: homicide, sexual assault, robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary, theft, theft from auto, and stolen auto (drug crimes are not yet factored in by MPD).
In PSA 102 (which includes H Street NE) during the two-year period ending Jan. 31, statistics show a downward trend in homicides, robberies, burglaries, assaults with deadly weapon, and thefts.
However, the two catagories with steep upward trends: thefts from auto and auto thefts.
I think that another kid got killed at 20th & H sunday.
It's possible there was another shooting at 20th & H. But 20th & H Street is not remotely part of the H Street Corridor. 20th & H Street is a residential street (in Langston) abutting a public housing project (the Langston Dwellings). My concept of "H Street" for the purposes of the corridor really ends at 15th Street (at which point Benning replace H Street). But Benning is also very different than H Street in terms of the way things are laid out.
I'm trying to figure out the city's RSS feeds for crimes and noticed a gun homicide yesterday that looks like Langston. It was in SMD 5B12, PSA 504, 2100 B/O MARYLAND AVE NE. It's amazing the real-time info the city is making available on the web.
The story, as usual, is getting less clear over time. Today's WaPo story reports that even the police now say he didn't shoot at them; he may have pointed the gun at them. Tests to be done to confirm source of the fatal shot.
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