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Carjacking in Alexandria, One Dead
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Anonymous
You’re a sociopath. You think it’s acceptable to murder people for taking your car or property or coming into your home. I just… I can’t even. That’s just stuff. It can be replaced. The life you’d take - that’s gone forever. How do you have the authority to be judge, jury, and executioner like that? To value a human life less than your car? WTF is wrong with you??? Let them have it. You can get another car. You can replace anything stolen. They can’t replace their life if you murder them. |
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Anonymous
Carjacking IS a petty crime. Murdering a petty criminal is NOT a petty crime. I hope the families of the victims sue the killer for every penny she’s got. |
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I live in Del Ray. Here is what I know and am puzzled why it isn’t reported.
4 males tried to carjack a woman of her white SUV (possibly a Subaru) and she shot 2 of them. I do not know if she shot them inside the store or by her car. One guy died, one is severely injured and in the hospital. The other two ran and here is where it gets really sketchy from police reports. The two males ran south west down Mt Vernon towards Braddock right when GWMS was being dismissed. There are about 800 kids in a grade there, times 3 and many of them walk to school. So hundreds (if not over a thousand) of middle schoolers are walking around and these 2 males try to blend in with the dismissed students. The two males are apprehended on the grass right next to the playground on Mt Vernon. Many kids watched, many recorded and posted online. Kids I know who were there noticed that the males had their faces covered (think of a bank robber in movie) and then saw their faces and remarked how young they looked (“they’re just kids, do they go here?”). So my speculation is that these two males are juveniles. Neither the police nor any media has reported the two people being arrested, despite tons of witnesses. Also police reported that GW was on lock down. They weren’t on lock down, there wasn’t any time to do a lock down since this all started transpiring right as the kids were walking out the door (so a lock down wasn’t possible). All the police are saying are that 5 people are involved, all have been accounted for, there is no threat to the public. Nothing about the 2 people, forced to lay face down on the sidewalk, with a police dog on them, and several police with their guns drawn on them that were arrested. Nothing. Totally insane. |
Anonymous
The original reports said (based on scanner traffic) the two people who were shot were in the car, but later reports aren't saying that. The police spokesman also appears to have said more than he was meant to initially because they have backed off their earlier statements that it was the owner of the car that did the shooting. (I still think it was, just that the police are being more tight-lipped about it than they were initially.) They also won't confirm that people were arrested outside GW even though there were many witnesses. Apparently they have video from the gas station, so it should be pretty clear what happened. Also, GW has about 500 kids per grade, not 800. Notthat it changes anything else you said. |
Anonymous
Are you their family? Because you are the only one upset about this. |
Anonymous
I wouldn’t say PP is upset, simply stating the facts. But I’m also against capital punishment and would not be able to kill someone who harmed me. |
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I’ve seen two videos taken by students showing the police holding two people on the ground, then comes an officer with a dog (German Sheppard I think) and then another comes running up with a huge gun. Then a weird shaped/boxy police car that looked like to me a fire chief’s car but black comes racing from Braddock, stops in the middle of the street, police start coming from all directions. Lots of yelling, lots of guns. Then someone finalizes realizes there are kids all over the place walking around, walking towards them, gawking and tells them to get back, run to someone (anyone’s) house, lock the door and stay inside.
Eventually kids were lead through the baseball field and allowed to leave by exiting on Braddock across from the 711/Lena’s. My kid said they thought the two being arrested were students because they looked so young. I have read NOTHING about this anywhere. |
Anonymous
So I kind of agree with you about the car. I’d let them have the car. But my house? If you break/enter my home while I’m there (and most likely my kids are there), I would have zero problems seriously injuring or killing you. |
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Your insurance is not going to give you enough money to buy another car. Car shortages and sky high prices means you will lose either way.
I know 2 people with vehicles that were totalled in accidents that were not their fault. Insurance is not giving you money for your car adjusted for inflation and shortages. If you're working a low wage job and you lose your car and your only way to work, you may find yourself homeless after a short while. |
Anonymous
Disagree. Stealing a car = petty crime. Armed carjacking = violent crime. People have died in the city in carjackings over the past year. I still wouldn't shoot a carjacker, but this is a F around and find out situation that I have very little sympathy for, even as a raging liberal. |
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The law treats a crime different if a person was in the home vs breaking into an unoccupied home. You’re home and someone is breaking in > you walk down the sidewalk and see someone breaking into your unoccupied home. The former, your life is at risk but not the latter. Armed carjacking (person is in the car) > auto theft (you are not in the car). These are totally different crimes.
If you think armed carjacking or armed burglary are petty crimes, I suggest you listen to victims of those crimes describe how terrifying they are. I served on a grand jury recently. Women who were carjacked with their babies in the back seat. Having a gun pressed to your head. These aren’t petty. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| New info making the rounds in Del Ray: a female Baltimore police officer was the shooter. |