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I'll see your Chinese Food Deliveryman and raise you a teenager.

nickerj1

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Mayor Fenty gambles away lives. Not to mention he looks like a mobster with that hat of his.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/02/AR2007090201210.html?nav=rss_metro


Article:

Teenager Among 5 Slain Within 27 Hours By Susan LevineWashington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 3, 2007; Page B06


The weekend's death toll in the District continued to climb yesterday, with a pair of shootings bringing the total to five homicides in 27 hours. In the last, a Clinton teenager was killed and a 15-year-old girl charged with manslaughter.
D.C. police said Airrion Johnson, 16, died after being shot about 3 a.m. in a first-floor apartment in the 800 block of R Street NW. Several people were in the apartment when there was a struggle over a handgun, which then discharged, according to the preliminary police investigation. Johnson, who was hit in the chest, ran into the street and collapsed. He was pronounced dead at Washington Hospital Center.
Officers were trying to identify and find the young man believed to have brought the gun to the apartment, said Sgt. Joe Gentile, a police spokesman. Authorities asked anyone with information to call detectives at 202-727-9099. The name of the 15-year-old was not released because she was charged as a juvenile. Three hours earlier, a deliveryman for Oriental Express restaurant in Southeast was found bleeding in his car at Savannah Street and Ridgecrest Court SE. Gentile said Ling Mao, 36, of Bowie had been shot once in the chest. He was pronounced dead at Washington Hospital Center.
Police have not determined a motive in Mao's killing, Gentile said.
Between midnight Friday and 3 a.m. yesterday, the District recorded three fatal shootings and two deadly stabbings, bringing the year's homicides to 131.
The name of the first victim, found stabbed to death in the 300 block of Kentucky Avenue SE, had not been released as of yesterday pending notification of relatives.
Police did, however, identify the stabbing victim found mid-morning Saturday in a car at First and N streets NE as Brian Harris, 55, of Lusby.
 

echo6tango

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Only 5 murders this weekend, but two were from knives...that means that the gun ban is working! <sarcasm>.Now Fenty needs to ban knives and we'll be safe until the badguys realize they can use toilet plungers to bludgeon people to death.

"We do not doubt that the District residents who are plaintiffs in the case brought this suit in good faith. But the District's government must choose what is in the best interest of the District overall. The council long ago made its considered choice on how best to save lives here."

I believe that the "overall" must include the criminals and their "rights" of committing crimes...must fall into their freedom of speech category...


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090300797.html
 
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