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The reader writes:

“Here’s a fun one on P St. west of Whole Foods a few blocks…”

Nice find!

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Not a good night.

From MPD:

“Around 9:15pm, units responded for a call for a shooting at Ga Ave and Decatur St NW. Upon arrival, two victims (one male juvenile and one adult female) were located suffering from apparent non-life threatening gun shot wounds.
Around 10:15 pm, units heard the sound of gunshots in the area of 9th and Crittenden Sts NW and responded to find a female victim (age not yet determined) suffering from an apparent non-life threatening gun shot wound. There is no lookout for either shooting. If anyone has any information, please call 1-888-919-CRIM(E).”

From @DCAlerts:

“Police Alert-Shooting Shooting in the 100blk of M St NE. No lookout given.”

“Police Alert-SHOOTING SHOOTING_2243HOURS_1300 SOUTHERN AVE SE“

“SHOOTING SHOOTING, 2249HRS, 2809 28TH ST NW“

From @DCPoliceDept:

“Shooting/4402 7th Street, SE/Adult male/2816″

Not many details but you can see the report from the Washington Post here.

A reader sends in the photo above a car that flipped around 8am this morning at Georgia Ave and Bryant St, NW. According to reports on twitter the car flipped after a multi vehicle accident.

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And in props to our city’s bravest – MPD reports:

“About 4 am this morning, a 22 year old man was shot in the 3400 block of 17th St., NE. He was apparently shot while inside his car. The car subsequently wound up on fire after it crashed a short distance away near the intersection of 17th and Monroe Sts., and the victim was pulled from the car by an off-duty DC firefighter on his way to work.

The victim is in stable condition at a hospital and detectives are still on the scene investigating.”

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From MPD:

“On October 28, 2011, at approximately 1630 hours, Officers from our Narcotics Division executed a search warrant in the 3200 block of Park Place, NW. A large amount of narcotics and two firearms were seized from this location.

Two suspects were placed under arrested and are facing drugs and weapons charges.”

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Another one from Dupont near the Philips Museum.

You’d never guess there were such details in the back from glancing at the front:

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“Dear PoPville,

I was walking north on 14th between R and S St, NW tonight [Wed.] around 9:30 PM. A girl was walking towards me, and behind her were two boys, flanking her on either side but at a slight distance. They both wore hooded black sweatshirts, and one had what looked like a black turtleneck pulled up to his nose. Both were African-American and could not have been more than 13 years old. They started to increase their pace, but then they noticed me, and kept walking. I slowed down, silently checked in with the girl, who switched her direction and asked if she could walk with me. The two boys followed us for a block before disappearing. Definitely strange and unsettling, especially because it was right on 14th St, which is well lit and certainly not desolate on a weekday evening. She called 911 and within two minutes I saw police cars heading in that direction.”

and

“Dear PoPville,

I was sitting on the Blue line this morning [Wed.] heading downtown from Potomac Ave when I witnessed an iPad snatch and grab. At a stop when a train was across the platform (I think Fed Center SW but I was too startled to pay attention), a young kid got out of his seat and slapped an iPad out of a woman’s hands who was sitting a couple rows ahead of him. He then picked it up and ran across the platform to the other train. Someone by the door grabbed his sweatshirt, but he got away. It all happened very fast and right before the doors closed.

This isn’t news to anyone, and I think there are still ads on the metro about protecting your stuff, but people should be really careful, especially when sitting on the aisle. It was all too easy for him to get the iPad out of her hands, and they’re a lot harder to hold onto than than a smartphone.

He amusingly dropped an iPod or a smartphone which was given to the victim. Hopefully the cops should be able to figure out something from that so later we can hear about the dumb thief who left identifying details at the scene.”

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From MPD:

“Earlier tonight [Tues.], Third District officers made a series of arrest for robberies throughout the area. First, officers apprehended an adult male after he attempted to rob a complainant of an Apple I-Phone, at 1301 Clifton Street. Second, officers made the arrest of 2 additional males after they attempted to rob a complainant at 7th and Vermont Avenue.…In both cases, I-Phones were taken and recovered….

Additionally, in (2) separate cases, members of the Vice and Crime Suppression Team were able to arrest (2) males for carrying a pistol without a license and took (2) handguns off the street. The locations of those arrests were 8th and Berry and 5200 block of Illinois Avenue.

Anyone with information relating to these or any cases relating to robberies or guns are encouraged to call 202-727-9099.”

A message was also shared on the Shaw listserv from one of the mugging victims:

“Wanted to fill you all in on my experiences last night. I was walking south on Vermont Ave. between S and R St., when I was approached by two black males who demanded my phone and wallet while indicating that they had a gun in their jacket pocket. I gave both up immediately and they ran directly towards our neighborhood. After a few minutes I went in the same direction and called the police with the help of a couple I stopped on the street.

The police arrived before I was done on the phone with 911, and we immediately began driving around the neighborhood attempting to locate them. Since I have an iPhone, one of the officers let me use his iPhone to download the Find My iPhone app, which immediately indicated that my phone was north of the intersection of Florida and Rhode Island NW. We sped over there, tracked my phone into a dead end alley (the 3th/4rd/T St. alley NW), which the police apprehended the two men. They found my phone almost immediately (with a little help from Find My iPhone’s beeping sound), and I ID’d the two men. About an hour later, one of them agreed to show the officers where they’d hidden my wallet – which turned out to be in the 10th St. Alley at French St.

I want to thank Officer L. Garrett and Detective Jose Morales for their great work and courtesy last night. Overall, it went about as well as a mugging can go, but I am a little shaken up that both the crime itself and the wallet’s hiding place were so close to our homes.

One note: the computer in police cruisers appears to run only Internet Explorer 6 (as a digital strategist, we often make the decision not to support this ancient mess of a browser), which cannot run Find My iPhone. If the officers had not had iPhones themselves to track my device, this would not have had a happy ending. I would highly suggest that the Metropolitan Police invest in installing a browser in cruiser computers that can handle modern phone tracking applications.

It’s also worth noting that this is the third such crime I’ve heard about among my friends in the last week. It may be something about the time of year: be safe and alert out there.”

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“Dear PoP,

Saw the post earlier about the bike guy who got into an argument on 14th and FL ave. I was walking to my car around 8:45 and there were a ton of police everywhere on that corner. Was here any correlation that you’ve heard of?”

I’ve been getting tons of emails asking what happened yesterday morning, according to MPD, it turns out:

“MPD and Fire were investigating a small amount of a suspicious liquid used in an assault.

The liquid was determined to be bleach.”

Apparently the passenger assaulted the driver over a dispute of how much the fare should be.

Never a dull day…

“Dear PoPville,

The dude, hit a car, then took out the lamppost and then ran into a taxi (Corner of Columbia and Sherman Ave, NW). By the time it was all over, he was in the back of a cop car.”