Loose Lips has been busy. Today's column refers to the Greater Greater Washington post I mentioned yesterday, and also looks at an Examiner article on Lt. Burley Sanders, who has been charged with misdemeanor sexual assault for allegedly groping another officer. Sanders will be familiar to residents of Trinidad, and he played a role in the checkpoints of 2008. He has entered a plea of not guilty.
At the top of the of the article are a bunch of links to recent LL postings. One of them, "Nine Shot. Four Dead. Was It All Really Over a Bracelet?", discusses a possible link to a 2008 Kenilworth double murder, that prosecutors have said are linked to the murder of 13 year old Alonzo Robinson in Trinidad that occurred on the same night. The link comes in the form of a gun (recovered by Marshalls during an eviction of Jordan Howe's mother) that matches shell casings found at the site of the Kenilworth murders. Jordan Howe was shot and killed after Sanquan Carter accused him of stealing a piece of costume jewelery. Confused? Yeah, sorry.
So, IF there is is a link to the shootings, it's to a victim in the recent shootings, not one of the perps. But Howe's gun (Howe was the "listed owner," and the gun was recovered from his bedroom) does appear to have been at the Kenilworth site. What I recall hearing quite a while back was that the car carrying Alonzo Robinson's killers had come to Trinidad with no specific target in mind, but instead seeking retribution for some small slight. Maybe the only real connection is that a small number of highly violent offenders are prolific in their harms than we sometimes realize.
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*But Howe's gun (which was recovered from his bedroom, and was registered in his name)*
That is shocking to me that a gun was actually registered. No sarcasm - but wow. Esp if he lives in the city.
The article says "listed owner," which sounded like registered to me.
That is really amazing. (no sarcasm) There are almost no legally registered owners of guns in the city. I just can't believe that he was one of them, given the rest of the article (heavy drugs, etc). Wow.
There are thousands and thousands of legally registered guns in DC. Long guns have always been legal. Handguns that people possessed before the enactment of the previous ban were "grandfathered." There have been few registered under the current law because was written to discourage gun ownership and discriminates against lower and middle income residents.
The city doesn't talk about it because it totally destroys their contention that the possession of firearms by ordinary law-abiding citizens would turn the city into a free-fire zone. Among law-abiding firearms owners this is not the case.
It's the criminals, stupid. What part of that is hard to understand?
But Howe's gun (which was recovered from his bedroom, and was registered in his name)
If the firearm was indeed registered, it was done so illegally. Jordan Howe was 20. DC requires you be 21.
I suppose he could have registered it in another state. He only needed a residence there.
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