Multiple Armed Robberies in Adams Morgan: “We were standing there helping [victims] call their banks and the same car pulled over AGAIN, and held up our group”

“Dear PoPville,

Wanted to let the community know about a string of robberies that happened last night in Adams Morgan. A group of us were walking up Columbia NW at 2am around Gelmarc towers and saw two guys who had just been held at gunpoint and had their phones and wallets stolen. We were standing there helping them call their banks and the same car pulled over AGAIN, and held up our group.

We started shouting once they had taken our friend’s purse and they drove away. We then called 911 and were on hold for 6 minutes and never picked up. We walked down to Belmont Rd and then found a couple who had seemingly also just been robbed at gunpoint and had their things stolen talking to cops and connected they were all the same people.

I gave them a full license plate but it was a pretty chaotic scene – the police didn’t really know how to manage the chaos and group. Wanted to make the community aware that these people are brazen and really don’t have any fear of repercussions – although we were lucky they ran when we shouted, I wouldn’t recommend it since they didn’t have problems holding a gun to my friend’s chest.”

Update from another reader:

“My friends were robbed Wednesday night in admo, same way. Seems like they’re targeting groups to get more for their effort”