Shooting near Catholic University

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds fishy.

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hard disagree. Did you even read the article?? In town from Kentucky with mom and brother to attend teacher's conference . . walking to metro at 8am to go to conference after watching fireworks the day before with mom and brother. This is an unbelievably horrific crime. DC better get its act together and start holding these criminals to account. No more catch and release, please. No more categorizing "youth" offenders that are in their 20s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds fishy.

+1

hard disagree. Did you even read the article?? In town from Kentucky with mom and brother to attend teacher's conference . . walking to metro at 8am to go to conference after watching fireworks the day before with mom and brother. This is an unbelievably horrific crime. DC better get its act together and start holding these criminals to account. No more catch and release, please. No more categorizing "youth" offenders that are in their 20s.

It is a bit unusual in the sense that it happened in a seemingly safe (by DC standards), populated area and that the two were reportedly walking together and talking at some point. I'm not going to speculate on anything though, this is totally horrific.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds fishy.

+1

hard disagree. Did you even read the article?? In town from Kentucky with mom and brother to attend teacher's conference . . walking to metro at 8am to go to conference after watching fireworks the day before with mom and brother. This is an unbelievably horrific crime. DC better get its act together and start holding these criminals to account. No more catch and release, please. No more categorizing "youth" offenders that are in their 20s.

right? plus the guy is dead. whether or not it’s “fishy” (eg, drug deal, hookup) it’s still murder.

[Anonymous]

It's gonna be gay sex. Watch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds fishy.

+1

hard disagree. Did you even read the article?? In town from Kentucky with mom and brother to attend teacher's conference . . walking to metro at 8am to go to conference after watching fireworks the day before with mom and brother. This is an unbelievably horrific crime. DC better get its act together and start holding these criminals to account. No more catch and release, please. No more categorizing "youth" offenders that are in their 20s.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's an odd case:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/man-found-shot-to-death-on-catholic-university-campus/3379236/
And an update to it:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/teacher-from-kentucky-killed-at-catholic-university-was-in-dc-for-professional-workshop/3379959/

I live near Catholic Uni and believe that you can get robbed in the area, but why would anyone take the victim to campus to do that? The plaza where this happened is right at the entrance to campus and you'd go there only if you want to make sure you'd be caught. There are cameras everywhere, and people walk there in the morning to get to work and visit the Basilica which opens at 8 am. I haven't seen any ATMs close by. Also, the police said they actually knew each other, so the update doesn't make any sense unless his acquaintance robbed him.

Do you think muggers with guns are that smart? Or maybe they are smart - this one hasn’t gotten caught yet. And of course, the ideal place to get victims is a lightly trafficked area.

The CUA area has always been sketch. Maybe "gentrified" in the last decade or two, but still sketch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds fishy.

+1

hard disagree. Did you even read the article?? In town from Kentucky with mom and brother to attend teacher's conference . . walking to metro at 8am to go to conference after watching fireworks the day before with mom and brother. This is an unbelievably horrific crime. DC better get its act together and start holding these criminals to account. No more catch and release, please. No more categorizing "youth" offenders that are in their 20s.

+1

I have lived in DC for awhile but admittedly don’t know that area too well. I have gotten lost or taken the ‘long way’ to a destination many times in my travels. This guy was a tourist so he wouldn’t necessarily know the most direct route to a location or maybe took a few wrong turns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's gonna be gay sex. Watch.

I’m gonna go with you on this one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Awful! And the police initially said they knew each other which they in no way did. Way to go building trust in the police!

If the video showed them walking calmly (perhaps the guy was too scared to resist at that point!) it would be a logical assumption that they were together. Something bad clearly happened from there.

I find it very odd that there is a cold-blooded killer on the loose right near multiple universities with summer students, yet despite surveillance footage, there is positively zero description released.

Where's the footage

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's an odd case:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/man-found-shot-to-death-on-catholic-university-campus/3379236/
And an update to it:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/teacher-from-kentucky-killed-at-catholic-university-was-in-dc-for-professional-workshop/3379959/

I live near Catholic Uni and believe that you can get robbed in the area, but why would anyone take the victim to campus to do that? The plaza where this happened is right at the entrance to campus and you'd go there only if you want to make sure you'd be caught. There are cameras everywhere, and people walk there in the morning to get to work and visit the Basilica which opens at 8 am. I haven't seen any ATMs close by. Also, the police said they actually knew each other, so the update doesn't make any sense unless his acquaintance robbed him.

Do you think muggers with guns are that smart? Or maybe they are smart - this one hasn’t gotten caught yet. And of course, the ideal place to get victims is a lightly trafficked area.

I guess this one was so dumb he didn't check where ATMs would be located because there are none in that area. That's the only reason he'd walk with the victim instead of taking his property and running away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Armed robbery. They didn’t know each other

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/teacher-from-kentucky-killed-at-catholic-university-was-in-dc-for-professional-workshop/3379959/?amp=1

The article says that the police believe they knew each other. Drug deal gone bad? We've definitely seen this before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds fishy.

+1

hard disagree. Did you even read the article?? In town from Kentucky with mom and brother to attend teacher's conference . . walking to metro at 8am to go to conference after watching fireworks the day before with mom and brother. This is an unbelievably horrific crime. DC better get its act together and start holding these criminals to account. No more catch and release, please. No more categorizing "youth" offenders that are in their 20s.

+1

I have lived in DC for awhile but admittedly don’t know that area too well. I have gotten lost or taken the ‘long way’ to a destination many times in my travels. This guy was a tourist so he wouldn’t necessarily know the most direct route to a location or maybe took a few wrong turns.

I have NEVER felt unsafe in that neighborhood. That being said, I was running early in the morning one time (5am?) and definitely saw a gay sex situation that was very odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's an odd case:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/man-found-shot-to-death-on-catholic-university-campus/3379236/
And an update to it:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/teacher-from-kentucky-killed-at-catholic-university-was-in-dc-for-professional-workshop/3379959/

I live near Catholic Uni and believe that you can get robbed in the area, but why would anyone take the victim to campus to do that? The plaza where this happened is right at the entrance to campus and you'd go there only if you want to make sure you'd be caught. There are cameras everywhere, and people walk there in the morning to get to work and visit the Basilica which opens at 8 am. I haven't seen any ATMs close by. Also, the police said they actually knew each other, so the update doesn't make any sense unless his acquaintance robbed him.

Do you think muggers with guns are that smart? Or maybe they are smart - this one hasn’t gotten caught yet. And of course, the ideal place to get victims is a lightly trafficked area.

The CUA area has always been sketch. Maybe "gentrified" in the last decade or two, but still sketch.

Not true. It has not been sketch for a long time. I bought my first house there in 1998 and it was fine then. With that being said, you still have to be smart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's an odd case:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/man-found-shot-to-death-on-catholic-university-campus/3379236/
And an update to it:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/teacher-from-kentucky-killed-at-catholic-university-was-in-dc-for-professional-workshop/3379959/

I live near Catholic Uni and believe that you can get robbed in the area, but why would anyone take the victim to campus to do that? The plaza where this happened is right at the entrance to campus and you'd go there only if you want to make sure you'd be caught. There are cameras everywhere, and people walk there in the morning to get to work and visit the Basilica which opens at 8 am. I haven't seen any ATMs close by. Also, the police said they actually knew each other, so the update doesn't make any sense unless his acquaintance robbed him.

Do you think muggers with guns are that smart? Or maybe they are smart - this one hasn’t gotten caught yet. And of course, the ideal place to get victims is a lightly trafficked area.

The CUA area has always been sketch. Maybe "gentrified" in the last decade or two, but still sketch.

Not true. It has not been sketch for a long time. I bought my first house there in 1998 and it was fine then. With that being said, you still have to be smart.

That stretch is highly visible to morning traffic on Michigan Avenue, people are coming and going out of the Starbucks and shopping triangle across the street, and people are walking on the campus and at the Dominican House across the street at that hour of the morning. That said, it was the morning after a holiday so probably quieter than usual. Still an unlikely target place when under the metro bridge is more remote. I’m wondering if this guy walked down from Trinity with him. . .

[Anonymous]

MPD released photos of the suspect: https://twitter.com/allisonpapson/status/1677427516649119744?s=46