Showing posts with label police chase. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police chase. Show all posts

Friday, February 02, 2007

WP: Car Chase & Barricade

Here's the Post coverage of the kid (17 yrs old)that lead police on a high speed (described as 90 mph) chase, ran over a bicyclist, and barricaded himself in the basement of a Capitol Hill rowhouse yesterday. Luckily the homeowner was unharmed and managed to flee the home safely with his wife and dog after hitting the suspect with a copper frying pan (yet another reason to use cast iron skillets). The bicyclist suffered minor injuries. Pretty amaxing that no one was killed. You may recall a previous teeanger (I think the the one I'm referring was 19) fleeing the police (who had called off the chase out of concern for public safety) who sped down Florida Ave a couple of years ago. The 19 year old mowed down two children in front of my house while he was doing 80. Those two siblings (I think they were around 7 and 9) were killed in front of their father.

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Update on Situation Last Night

I'm not sure why this event isn't bigger news, but I can't find it on the news websites & the Post has it buried over in the District Briefing section. Essentially the situation began when police gave chase to a red Jeep containing four robbery suspects. This was at around 9:30. Three of the suspects were arrested at that point (they were teens). The fourth suspect jumped into another car and sped off. At some point a bicyclist was hit by one of the cars (last night ABC News 7 reported that this occurred at 6th & Florida, but I don't know if that is accurate). The bicyclist was treated for minor injuries. The driver shot at police while driving, but no officers were hit. He drove into Capitol Hill, crashed the car and ran into a rowhouse on Mass Ave (8th & Mass). A man in the house hit the suspect with a frying pan and then fled outside with his wife and dog. The suspect surrendered to police around midnight. Why isn't this bigger news?

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UPDATE
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Ask & ye shall receive. Here are the stories I couldn't find earlier:
Read the story & watch the video from WUSA9, NBC News 4, Fox News 5,or ABC 7 News (this one is from last night, and appears in the post below). Sorry it wasn't updated before, but the network problems here were followed by Blogger server issues. DCist has a story on all of this. What a day!