Shooting near Catholic University

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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.

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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.

Years ago, I was in Budapest and had gone on a city tour. At the end of the tour, my friend, another American who was on the tour and I were looking for a restaurant and a guy asked us if we needed help. We naively followed him off the main street onto a side street. Luckily, I realized what was happening and yelled to my friend. We ran as fast as we could back to the main street. The American we had just met did not run and was pick pocketed but luckily was not injured. I could see a scenario like that happening. The young man is looking for the metro; the robber/gunman offers to show him how to get to the metro and leads him onto the campus and off of busy Michigan Ave with the intention of robbing him, which then turns into a senseless murder.

His mother said the family had stayed at Trinity on prior visits to DC. They had taken metro to see the fireworks the night before. He was not unfamiliar with the route. Something else happened.

Yes but there was always a diagonal cut-through to metro from the basilica through campus. That route is now blocked by construction - which one notices just beyond the area of the plaza where he was shot. He was either turned around or maybe lured there somehow. Hopefully video surveillance shows his path and the killer’s arrival in the area, and that gives a clue.

Again, they had walked to and from the metro the PRIOR EVENING. So, not unfamiliar with any current obstacles. "There was always" is irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

This is sad and scary.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:22 y/o Jaime Maceo charged with the murder of Kentucky teacher Maxwell Emerson last week on the Catholic University campus

1. Jaime Maceo was arrested 5/22/22 for assault with a ghost gun in NW DC. Maceo shot during exchange of gunfire w/neighbor.

2. Released by Superior Court judge 6/21/22 until trial scheduled 4/3/23.

3. Meantime on 8/27/22 Maceo was charged with threats to do bodily harm to a 7-11 clerk in NW DC.

4. Convicted in bench trial 3/2/23 and sentenced to 120 days with jail time suspended in lieu of 1 year probation

5. Original trial from step 2 pushed back to 7/10/23.

4. Case dismissed 6/30/23.

5. Max Emerson murdered 7/5/23

He would have been ON TRIAL starting yesterday for a prior shooting victim (that one lived) had USAO not no papered it/declined to prosecute at the last minute, as they do in 67% of arrests. Had this guy with a gun PRIOR been held pending trial on 7/10/23 and had the case gone forward he would not have been on the street and the poor tourist teacher WOULD BE ALIVE.

Graves has a lower prosecution rate than any other big city. He is full of excuses but even "kids are kids" Schwab has a no paper rate of 26% vs the astronomical 67% rate of federally appointed Graves. Schwab has the exact same lab, MPD and other challenges. Graves may have the lowest prosecution rate in the country and when they do go forward they drastically plead down cases putting dangerous people back on the street. Congress really needs to exercise oversight over DOJ and their USAO for DC. If it's a resource issue, fix it. There needs to be a real cards on the table about what is really at play. Is it ideological? https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/politics/black-prosecutors-dc-gun-cases/index.html

Another startling example of how the USAO does business https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/armed-man-who-attacked-dc-pub-owner-in-front-of-4-year-old-boy-offered-plea-deal-to-victims-dismay/3382018/

And yet Racine alum Janeese Lewis George thinks pre-trial detention is a bad idea. How many people did this guy victimize that *didn’t* result in an arrest?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:22 y/o Jaime Maceo charged with the murder of Kentucky teacher Maxwell Emerson last week on the Catholic University campus

1. Jaime Maceo was arrested 5/22/22 for assault with a ghost gun in NW DC. Maceo shot during exchange of gunfire w/neighbor.

2. Released by Superior Court judge 6/21/22 until trial scheduled 4/3/23.

3. Meantime on 8/27/22 Maceo was charged with threats to do bodily harm to a 7-11 clerk in NW DC.

4. Convicted in bench trial 3/2/23 and sentenced to 120 days with jail time suspended in lieu of 1 year probation

5. Original trial from step 2 pushed back to 7/10/23.

4. Case dismissed 6/30/23.

5. Max Emerson murdered 7/5/23

He would have been ON TRIAL starting yesterday for a prior shooting victim (that one lived) had USAO not no papered it/declined to prosecute at the last minute, as they do in 67% of arrests. Had this guy with a gun PRIOR been held pending trial on 7/10/23 and had the case gone forward he would not have been on the street and the poor tourist teacher WOULD BE ALIVE.

Graves has a lower prosecution rate than any other big city. He is full of excuses but even "kids are kids" Schwab has a no paper rate of 26% vs the astronomical 67% rate of federally appointed Graves. Schwab has the exact same lab, MPD and other challenges. Graves may have the lowest prosecution rate in the country and when they do go forward they drastically plead down cases putting dangerous people back on the street. Congress really needs to exercise oversight over DOJ and their USAO for DC. If it's a resource issue, fix it. There needs to be a real cards on the table about what is really at play. Is it ideological? https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/politics/black-prosecutors-dc-gun-cases/index.html

Another startling example of how the USAO does business https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/armed-man-who-attacked-dc-pub-owner-in-front-of-4-year-old-boy-offered-plea-deal-to-victims-dismay/3382018/

It really is confounding.

Graves is also handling all the J6 prosecutions. I think his office is over-stretched, even though he refuses to admit it. They are letting crime slip in DC in order to build airtight J6 cases. GOP will never approve an increased budget for Graves's office.

[Anonymous]

The DC government needs to take over prosecution of all criminal offenses tried in DC Superior Court, i.e., the DC USAO needs to prosecute only federal crimes.

We can debate whether the mayor or the DC council/certain members are "soft" on crime or whether the DC AG's office would be effective, but the current system lacks any meaningful/necessary political feedback loops and this allows everyone to shrug their figuarative shoulders. Making an elected official (who is elected only by Washingtonians) the responsible party for prosecutions would provide me a glimmer of hope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The DC government needs to take over prosecution of all criminal offenses tried in DC Superior Court, i.e., the DC USAO needs to prosecute only federal crimes.

We can debate whether the mayor or the DC council/certain members are "soft" on crime or whether the DC AG's office would be effective, but the current system lacks any meaningful/necessary political feedback loops and this allows everyone to shrug their figuarative shoulders. Making an elected official (who is elected only by Washingtonians) the responsible party for prosecutions would provide me a glimmer of hope.

100% agree.

But this is one of the biggest downsides of no statehood for DC: all acts of crime in DC are "federal" crimes. We have little control of prosecution.

[Anonymous]

I have to take the metro on Friday and am terrified! DC will not be getting my $$$ until they clean up these worsening crime issues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcwashington.com/breaking-news/arrest-made-in-killing-of-kentucky-teacher-at-catholic-university-police-say/3382658/

Good. Except it appears the suspect has been arrested before (twice) for gun-related offenses. This was preventable.

This is exactly why Democrats won’t reduce the violence. All talk, and no effective action. Thoughts and prayers.

Okay, troll. Move along now, sweetie.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The DC government needs to take over prosecution of all criminal offenses tried in DC Superior Court, i.e., the DC USAO needs to prosecute only federal crimes.

We can debate whether the mayor or the DC council/certain members are "soft" on crime or whether the DC AG's office would be effective, but the current system lacks any meaningful/necessary political feedback loops and this allows everyone to shrug their figuarative shoulders. Making an elected official (who is elected only by Washingtonians) the responsible party for prosecutions would provide me a glimmer of hope.

100% agree.

But this is one of the biggest downsides of no statehood for DC: all acts of crime in DC are "federal" crimes. We have little control of prosecution.

And for lack of statehood, I blame Republicans.

This death is on Republican leadership wanting to have a talking point about “ghetto” Democrat-led cities.

[Anonymous]

I feel so terrible for the family. And I can’t imagine what if feels like for them reading about his recent arrests.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if the victim lived in a very safe town and didn't believe the perpetrator would actually shoot. That's why he didn't give his belongings right away (still used the cell phone), which lead to an altercation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The DC government needs to take over prosecution of all criminal offenses tried in DC Superior Court, i.e., the DC USAO needs to prosecute only federal crimes.

We can debate whether the mayor or the DC council/certain members are "soft" on crime or whether the DC AG's office would be effective, but the current system lacks any meaningful/necessary political feedback loops and this allows everyone to shrug their figuarative shoulders. Making an elected official (who is elected only by Washingtonians) the responsible party for prosecutions would provide me a glimmer of hope.

Yes, it’s time to bring the Racine/Schwalb revolving door of juvenile justice to the broader criminal justice system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have to take the metro on Friday and am terrified! DC will not be getting my $$$ until they clean up these worsening crime issues.

What does this exactly mean?

Lots of folks take the metro daily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if the victim lived in a very safe town and didn't believe the perpetrator would actually shoot. That's why he didn't give his belongings right away (still used the cell phone), which lead to an altercation.

I’ve also been wondering about his texting his mom instead of handing over his phone. He must have been terrified.

My mom was mugged at gunpoint once and she *knows* you’re supposed to hand your stuff over but she was so startled and afraid she said “no!” instead. Thankfully the perpetrator just pushed her to the ground and took her purse instead of shooting her.

[Anonymous]

I saw court documents on Twitter https://twitter.com/RamirezReports, and this is still confusing. The victim was coming out of the metro and going to campus. Wasn't he heading to Lib. of Congress? Initially, he didn't seem to be threatened and was walking away but then returned. He also had a cell phone the whole time but texted only right before shooting. Maybe the suspect was on drugs and wasn't even sure what he wanted.