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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about some facts?
(I don't actually know the answers, but maybe someone else does.)

In the past 15-20 years, how many times have there been shootings at the zoo?

How many of those episodes have been on Easter Monday, and how many on some other day of the year?[/quote]

There was a multiple shooting at the Easter Monday event (6 or 7) victims in 2000, and another shooting in 2006.  In 2011 there was serious violence, but no gunshot injuries, according to press reports on the internet.  I can't speak to other shootings at the zoo, but I live in Woodley Park and shootings of any sort in the neighborhood are very, very unusual.  However, last week there apparently was a min-riot on the Calvert St bridge, as others have written about.[/quote]

There was a stabbing in 2011. A 16yo stabbed a 14yo.

Other years, they've had to close the zoo early, because of overcrowding and fighting. Two years ago, I watched as officers in police cruisers chased 80-100 teens down Connecticut Ave. [/quote]
Yikes. That must have been something to see.[/quote]

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