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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Today a young hispanic male stabbed 4 people off Viers Mill, prompting MCPD to shoot and kill him.  Wonder if he is an undocumented immigrant?

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The race of the suspect has not been reported, as far as I'm aware. Can you provide a source for that bit of information? A neighbor got a photo of the guy from the back. It's in this news story:

https://wjla.com/news/local/wheaton-maryland-deadly-officer-involved-shooting-multiple-stabbed-assault-montgomery-county-police-fire-department-moco-crime-korean-korner-colie-drive-havard-street-randolph-veirs-mill-road[/quote]

But that neighborhood (including the streets named, eg, Colie and Havard) is 100% Latino. [/quote]

It is not. That Census tract (34.01) was 56% Hispanic in the 2020 Census.[/quote]

Go drive down those streets. They are relatively small streets. That neighborhood is latino.

Perhaps the census tracks owners/landlords rather than renters?

And the census tract goes beyond those streets and immediate adjacent streets.

I know the area very well. [/quote]

No. The Census counts residents. The boundaries of the Census tract are Veirs Mill Road, the stream valley, and Connecticut Avenue.

1,559 housing units, of which 1,520 were occupied. 
5,871 people total. 
3,312 Hispanic, 837 non-Hispanic white, 559 non-Hispanic black, 934 non-Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander, 229 non-Hispanic other.

Also, even with the Hispanic population likely younger than the non-Hispanic population, the demographics for Sargent Shriver ES in 2022-2023 were: 78.6% Hispanic, 11.3% non-Hispanic Black/African-American, 5.7% non-Hispanic Asian-American, and less than 5% everyone else.

So, lots of people who are Latino? Yes. 100%? Nowhere near.

Maybe driving down those streets doesn't give you as good an understanding of the area as you thought?[/quote]

2020 census? Probably a bit out of date.

The local elementary school is nearly 80% Latino. The rest are black and Asian—mostly immigrants. The neighborhood will continue to fill with Latinos…just like the neighborhood on the other side of CT Ave that feeds into Weller Road Elementary. [/quote]

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