Woman Mugged Just before 3:30pm in Mount Pleasant “her chin/jaw was bleeding”

by Prince Of Petworth August 24, 2016 at 3:38 pm 22 Comments

mtp mugging

A reader reports at 3:25pm:

“Woman mugged and injured in broad daylight at Mt Pleasant and Irving St NW. looks like she got hit on the face or fell and hit her chin/jaw and was bleeding. She was holding a bag of ice to her jaw.”

Update from AlertDC:

“Alert: Robbery F & V at 1531 hrs in the 3100 block of Mt. Pleasant St. NW. Lookout for group of juveniles wearing school uniform and carrying an orange /black purse”

Update from MPD:

“Robbery F & V in front of 1616 Hobart Street, NW. C1 states that S1 and S2 approached her from behind and tried to take her purse. She resisted and was knocked to the ground. S2 picked up a rock and struck C1 on the face. C1 let go of her purse and the suspects ran with the purse across Mt. Pleasant Street, north on 16th St., and west on Irving Street, NW.

S-1 Unknown Person

Age Range: 18 – 20 years old

Sex: Male

Race/Ethnicity: Black/Not Hispanic Or Latino

Appearance: Black hair

Build: Thin Dark skin tone

Clothing:

Shirt/blouse white tank top

Pants/dress/skirt khaki

S-2 Unknown Person

Age Range: 18 – 20 years old

Sex: Male

Race/Ethnicity: Black/Not Hispanic Or Latino

Appearance:

Build: Thin Dark skin tone “

Rower32

Schools are open?
Anon

First day of school?
Wayne

There’s usually a police presence on Mount Pleasant Street, NW. This is scary knowing that someone can harm in during the day time on the streets. With the D.C. public schools opening, these type of incidents might increase. It would be nice to go without crime for one day in this city or country. I guess, I’m living in a world of fantasy.
- jaybird
  
  why would incidences increase because school is open?
  - textdoc
    
    I assume Wayne’s point is that there are large numbers of teenagers in a concentrated area at the time school gets out, whereas in the summer it would be more diffused over time and place.
    - textdoc
      
      Also — IIRC, there’s evidence (or at least a theory) that people are willing in a group to do (bad) things that they might be more hesitant to do on their own. Plus there’s the factor of people egging on other people, trying to impress other people, etc.
      - best
        
        Yes, a sociological theory called groupthink
  - Rich
    
    People are always looking for some seasonal or other pattern to the explain often very small changes in crime over the course of the year.
    - AsAMother
      
      Have you ever walked through that neighborhood at that time of day?
  - Ally
    
    I assume you’re being sarcastic?
Anon

Odds of this group being related to that other assault/robbery by a gang of juveniles are likely fairly high.
- dcjack
  
  Don’t think so. That other incident (on Newton St) was by a group of juveniles from SE DC in the area on a field trip. (Yes, really!) This behavior sounds similar, and this collective-violence activity by juveniles is very troubling. Watch out for bands of teens, who can evidently incite each other to do dreadful things.
  - dcjack
    
    Turns out it was just two young men, well beyond middle school age.
dunning-kruger

Pretty dim to mug someone in your school uniform.
- Rich
  
  No one said criminal behavior was “rational”. Actually, there being many people in uniform may make it even less likely they can be identified.
  - Anonymous
    
    Actually, it’s pretty easy to identify them if the school is willing to comply. If you can identify one kid, it’s usually not hard to figure out who was with him/her. Or if you have limited descriptions of several, you can usually identify the group. These kids are not that bright.
    .
    Also, that corner is rarely, if ever, empty. There are always people (i.e. witnesses) waiting for the light, walking around, sitting in the window at Ercilia’s or Flying Fish, the bus stop, etc. Plus you’re 100 yards away from the likely source: CHEC.
AB

Consequences for violent thieves? I don’t care that they’re kids. They know what they are doing.
- Anon MPD
  
  I’d suggest that you weigh in with the Attorney General and your Council member if you want to see any change in how juveniles committing unarmed robberies are addressed. As it is, the consequences, if any, are light.
Anonymous

I’m going out on a limb here to suggest this was probably the result of some real or perceived slight, which led to a cocky teenager thinking she had to get aggressive in front of her friends.
dcjack

Here’s the MPD description:
Robbery F & V in front of 1616 Hobart Street, NW. C1 states that S1 and S2 approached her from behind and tried to take her purse. She resisted and was knocked to the ground. S2 picked up a rock and struck C1 on the face. C1 let go of her purse and the suspects ran with the purse across Mt. Pleasant Street, north on 16th St., and west on Irving Street, NW.

S-1 Unknown Person

Age Range: 18 – 20 years old
Sex: Male
Race/Ethnicity: Black/Not Hispanic Or Latino
Appearance: Black hair
Build: Thin Dark skin tone
Clothing: Shirt/blouse white tank top Pants/dress/skirt khaki

S-2 Unknown Person

Age Range: 18 – 20 years old
Sex: Male
Race/Ethnicity: Black/Not Hispanic Or Latino
Appearance: Build: Thin Dark skin tone
Joel

The prevailing theory is that this type of teen crime has been associated with rise in popularity of selfie photos. Kids have been desensitized to it because they are accustomed to ‘mugging for the camera'(phone)
Peace

This could happen to anyone. The attack didn’t occur where the photo was taken (victim moved there screaming for help). The attack happened on Hobart St. NW. Which is a very quite and kid-friendly street.

The victim is your neighbor. She’s a mom of two children and hard working woman who lives and loves Mt Pleasant. She was coming back from work to check on some home repairs being made by a contractor. — It was earlier than her usual schedule — so we can see there was not following or premeditated monitoring from the criminals.

As someone said, criminals should be easy to identify. Not only by visiting the schools and interviewing teachers, the victim’s cellphone reported signal and location on SE DC a few times right after the attack. But the Police said that they don’t and won’t track those traces (??!). Even when it was located on the map!

Let’s just hope that somehow, somewhere those guys will be catch. And nobody gets hurt again. She was attacked by two guys and hit on the face. Horrible.

Let’s hope kids, women and everyone on Mt Pleasant is safe.

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