Fire in upper NW?

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Have to bet this guy got fired. "former" employee. He clearly didnt leverage a better offer elsewhere

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What about his accomplices? Any word from Lanier on that?

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Anonymous wrote:Not much else new in the press conference. The chief says she's hoping to have him in custody soon.

Lanier said "Wint worked for AIW". This is new info. Others were speculating.

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Anonymous wrote:What about his accomplices? Any word from Lanier on that?

She didn't rule accomplices in or out.

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Anonymous wrote:What about his accomplices? Any word from Lanier on that?

She said they would not rule it out.

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Anonymous wrote:So gross to look at that guy's facebook page...using photos of cars as if he worships them and selfie's that show his cut body. A culture of surface level obsession with looks and brands and money but no substance. Why is it so hard to find this d-bag? Surely plenty of his FB friends and family are happy to try and get that $25K reward.

That could describe a lot of people here: concerned with appearances, but not concerned with how to actually achieve something for themselves.

+100000

It's weird how people say "but that person was like THAT, so different from me!" But really, you're actually very similar in many ways. I'd say that kind of materialism, superficiality, and status symbol obsession is rampant across people on this site, and many people in the DC area (note: I am actually from this area, and not a transplant). The people who want the perfect remodel, home renovations, fancy cars, engagement ring, North Arlington/Bethesda/McLean home, etc.

Lots of people in those areas are high achievers. There are people working to reach that level of achievement to join them. Why is that something to be condemned? This is the way the world works. Hard work should be rewarded. People should be able to celebrate their successes. The idea that successful people with nice things don't deserve those things or worse deserve bad things to happen to them runs rampant through this thread.

There is the very false idea that with hard work, comes success. Many people work very hard, but are never rewarded. Many people receive a lot, but don't work that hard.

There is also the idea that some people feel a sense of injustice "I work so hard, why can't I have x, y, z?" And may resort to unethical tactics to get x, y, and z. Most people just chalk it up to "life is unfair - c'est la vie."

But for me it also begs the question, why is worth or success attached to stuff? Things? Price? Label? For me it's such an inherently weird concept. I don't define "success" by those measures.

This back-and-forth is amazing. I love the first comment about the suspect's FB page, but everything after that is a little nuts. It sounds like you judge people based on their possessions. You would judge me for driving a nice car, and you don't know me at all. I certainly don't drive a nice car to show my "success". Not even close. Mind your own business, don't worry about what other people have, and try to find happiness.

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Anonymous wrote:WTOP just reported that suspect worked for one of SS's companies.

smh

what does smh mean?

Disregard. I googled smh.

So, WTOP says suspect worked for one of father's companies. Police are not characterizing this crime as random because perp(s?) were employed by SS in some way.

I'm sorry to everyone who was all excited they were "right" about it being random but this seemed obvious from the get-go. They had to have knowledge of what assets the family had, what they thought they could reasonably get out of the family, etc. etc. There's no way someone's going to randomly pick a family to hold hostage on the vague hope and prayer that they can come up with an obscene amount of cash in a short amount of time.

Yes, it IS random. This sociopath picked this family, this man, out of all the prove he came across in His daily life.

Do you people not realize you don't need to be a business owner to be randomly targeted by a criminal? We ALL cross paths daily with people who could decide we are their next victim. The teenager who lives down the street and wants money for drugs, the guy who pumped your gas, the friend of your nephew who saw a picture of you on his Instagram account, the Son of the guy who cuts your lawn, the stranger sitting two table over from you at the Palm, the handsome Guy your friedm introduced you to at a fraternity party, the check out woman at the grocery store.

That this sociopath, this criminal, this Wint guy picked the S Family is random. He may have worked for the father's company at one point but that is not WHY he picked them to target. He wasn't looking for revenge. It wasn't because the Dad "did him wrong" or had shady business dealings. THAT is what I mean.

All those theories that made it a retaliatory strike against this family were all wrong. They were looking for some REASON it happened to this family. It is a way to make you feel like it couldn't be you. Well, that is wrong. It could be you. It could be me. It was RANDOM that the S family was chosen. They are innocent of causing this in any way, shape or form.

That is what I meant by RANDOM.

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Anonymous wrote:What about his accomplices? Any word from Lanier on that?

I can't comment on that.

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Anonymous wrote:Facebook page - Dillion Wint.

That's the suspect brother.

Are you sure? Look at profile pix

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Anonymous wrote:What about his accomplices? Any word from Lanier on that?

She said they're not ruling that out, but gave no other indication about other perps.

She also said that Wint might have taken a bus to NY, but they aren't really sure.

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Anonymous wrote:WTOP just reported that suspect worked for one of SS's companies.

Why on earth wouls SS hire a person with a rap sheet? Maybe the perp used a different name?

his company is very large and has a large number of employees. Wint was likely a very low level guy, I guess SS did not hire him personally or even knew him.

on a side note http://www.americanironworks.com/missionStatement.aspx

The company had a number of government contracts and did a lot of high profile non-government work in the DC. Contractors (prime and sub) are required to have a certain number of minority sub-contractors and employees. Hiring minority workers and ex-cons may have been something that the business did either i) to make itself more attractive to prime contractors or ii) because he wanted to help the community in which the business was located

Uh, hiring minority workers to become more attractive? Maybe you want to restate that? You know this is the DMV, right? My company has lots of minority workers because they were hired for other reasons besides belonging to a minority. They were just part of the hiring pool. They weren't hired as a favor to anyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Not much else new in the press conference. The chief says she's hoping to have him in custody soon.

Lanier said "Wint worked for AIW". This is new info. Others were speculating.

Lanier confirmed that police think it is Wint in video surveillance at burning car scene.

I'm thinking that Wint could possibly have been working alone -- he is certainly athletic enough to overpower the victims -- maybe one by one. The maid, son and mother. He could have overpowered them and just waited for SS to show up.

I think he could have acted alone.

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Anonymous wrote:WTOP just reported that suspect worked for one of SS's companies.

smh

what does smh mean?

Disregard. I googled smh.

So, WTOP says suspect worked for one of father's companies. Police are not characterizing this crime as random because perp(s?) were employed by SS in some way.

I'm sorry to everyone who was all excited they were "right" about it being random but this seemed obvious from the get-go. They had to have knowledge of what assets the family had, what they thought they could reasonably get out of the family, etc. etc. There's no way someone's going to randomly pick a family to hold hostage on the vague hope and prayer that they can come up with an obscene amount of cash in a short amount of time.

Yes, it IS random. This sociopath picked this family, this man, out of all the prove he came across in His daily life.

Do you people not realize you don't need to be a business owner to be randomly targeted by a criminal? We ALL cross paths daily with people who could decide we are their next victim. The teenager who lives down the street and wants money for drugs, the guy who pumped your gas, the friend of your nephew who saw a picture of you on his Instagram account, the Son of the guy who cuts your lawn, the stranger sitting two table over from you at the Palm, the handsome Guy your friedm introduced you to at a fraternity party, the check out woman at the grocery store.

That this sociopath, this criminal, this Wint guy picked the S Family is random. He may have worked for the father's company at one point but that is not WHY he picked them to target. He wasn't looking for revenge. It wasn't because the Dad "did him wrong" or had shady business dealings. THAT is what I mean.

All those theories that made it a retaliatory strike against this family were all wrong. They were looking for some REASON it happened to this family. It is a way to make you feel like it couldn't be you. Well, that is wrong. It could be you. It could be me. It was RANDOM that the S family was chosen. They are innocent of causing this in any way, shape or form.

That is what I meant by RANDOM.

I don't know what you are talking about but this was NOT random by any definition of the word.

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Anonymous wrote:ON Facebook, if you link to the sister's (Seanna Wint) page, it appears that she has some sort of scar on her neck -- can anyone tell if that looks like a gunshot wound or knife wound?

A quick search shows that the scars are from a feeding tube they had to use b/c of premature birth. Leave her alone. She did not do this.

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Anonymous wrote:ON Facebook, if you link to the sister's (Seanna Wint) page, it appears that she has some sort of scar on her neck -- can anyone tell if that looks like a gunshot wound or knife wound?

I can't believe you people are for real. I might have to quit DCUM.