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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This sounds fishy.[/quote]

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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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.

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I was thinking it might be something like this as well. I live a few blocks from there and am frequently approached asking for directions to the metro. The entrance is fairly well hidden. [/quote]

That could make sense. Not sure what the pp was talking about with the sides of the street. He would have had to cross Michigan or Monroe to get from Trinity to the metro, so this was not out of the way. [/quote]

From Trinity you can stay on the south side of Michigan and it’s a straight shot to the metro - cross Monroe, pass behind Starbucks, cross 7th, and pass by the daycare into the arts walk plaza and metro entrance. Or you can turn onto Monroe and enter the arts walk at Monroe by Tropical Smoothie and pass through the arts walk to the metro entrance.

He was on the north side of Michigan, the CUA side of the street. It’ll still get you to the metro and in fact you can cut through campus, cross John McCormack and approach the metro from the north, but it’s the less direct route from Trinity.

So you can get to the metro crossing Michigan, but you don’t have to, and it is out of the way, though not by much. I don’t know if a tourist would be aware. He may have also just wanted to walk on the north side to get a closer look at the basilica or campus architecture. 
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You actually can’t currently cut through campus except in a very roundabout way because of campus construction.  And that side of Michigan has a large blockade that makes it look like the sidewalk is closed. I could easily see a tourist being confused and asking for help.

From the photos it’s clear the robber was at the Metro.  The red Crocs are a big visual.[/quote]

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