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During Southeast prayer walk, DC's police chief calls for healing, end to gun violence 05/07/2024 10:18pm • As religious leaders prayed in front of D.C. Police’s Seventh District station along Alabama Avenue in Southeast on Tuesday night, Chief Pamela Smith watched closely. She closed her eyes, lowered her head and at times clapped as community members prayed for safety in their neighborhood, for 2 killed, 3 hurt in Capital Beltway crash in Prince George's Co. 05/07/2024 05:30pm • Two people died and three others were hurt after a car crashed into the woods off the Capital Beltway in Prince George's County on Tuesday afternoon. Around 12:30 p.m. Maryland State Police responded to the Outer Loop near exit 27 for reports of a single-vehicle crash. The driver, later identi Rockville man charged with manslaughter following 2023 pedestrian crash 05/07/2024 05:13pm • A driver has been arrested and charged with manslaughter after police say he struck and killed a 70-year-old woman while she was crossing the street in Rockville, Maryland, last December. Jose Isaac Zelaya, 24, of Rockville was arrested on May 3 for allegedly striking and killing Teresa Moreno De Viral 'senior assassin' game has Va. high school officials concerned 05/07/2024 10:04am • School officials in Northern Virginia are urging students to stop playing a game that is reportedly scaring residents and leading to police reports of teens carrying weapons. Students have dismissed officials' warnings, saying the "senior assassin" game is just "harmless fun" with water guns. The Taser maker acquires Northern Virginia drone detection company 05/07/2024 09:05am • Scottsdale, Arizona-based Axon Enterprise Inc., which makes the Taser weapon and police body cameras, will acquire Sterling, Virginia-based Dedrone, maker of drone threat detection systems. Terms of the acquisition weren't disclosed. Dedrone's threat-detection tracking system uses artificial i Police identify man that crashed into White House barrier after running two lights 05/07/2024 08:15am • D.C. police have identified the driver who died after crashing into a White House complex barrier on Saturday night. 57-year-old James Chester Lewis Jr., of Matthews, North Carolina, crashed into a security barrier along the outer perimeter of the White House complex, according to police. The DC police up reward in search for suspect in shooting that left 3-year-old dead 05/06/2024 08:09pm • D.C. police and federal agencies have upped the reward in the search for a suspect that fatally shot a 3-year-old girl in Southeast D.C. last week. On Monday, the Metropolitan Police Department upped the reward to $25,000 for anyone with information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the pe 17-year-old charged as adult, held without bond in Dunbar High School shooting 05/06/2024 05:55pm • A 17-year-old is being charged as an adult and held without bond in a shooting that left a teenage girl with a deep graze wound when a hail of bullets struck a nearby D.C. high school last week. Authorities charged Saki Frost, 17, and Azhari Graves, 18, on charges of assault with a dangerous weap Pro-Palestinian protesters challenge GW president's criticism of encampment 05/06/2024 05:23pm • On the 12th day of a pro-Palestinian encampment, protesters at George Washington University are pushing back against criticism from the D.C. school's president who called the demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war "illegal and potentially dangerous." Protesters have said they are awaiting a mee 'Virginia is not New York': Attorney general says arrests at U.Va. necessary, as protesters express outrage 05/06/2024 03:34pm • The state's attorney general said the move to arrest and remove pro-Palestininian protesters from the University of Virginia campus was necessary after weeks of lawless acts that some students dispute. Twenty-five people were arrested Saturday at the Charlottesville campus after police clashed wi 'Hard to celebrate' drop in homicides, says DC anti-violence leader 05/06/2024 02:00pm • According to figures from D.C. police, there have been 60 homicides, which is down 21% when compared to the same time last year. However, this is no time to celebrate, according to a local anti-violence leader. "We have a lot more work to do," said Marcus Ellis, executive director of Peace For GW University president, pro-Palestinian activists give conflicting accounts of protests 05/06/2024 08:27am • Responding to the ongoing encampment of protesters at George Washington University over the Israel-Hamas war, the university president said the causes are important, but outside forces are stirring the conflict. In a letter addressed to the GW University community Sunday, President Ellen Gran Police: Suitland vehicle crash leaves 1 dead, 4 hospitalized, including 1 gunshot victim 05/05/2024 08:52pm • At least one person is dead and four are injured, including one with gunshot wounds, following a vehicle crash Sunday in Suitland, Md., according to Prince George's County Police. In a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), police stated they arrived at the scene of a two vehicle crash that occur 18-year-old held without bond for shooting of Dunbar High School student 05/05/2024 02:57pm • An 18-year-old is being held without bond after new information emerged in a court hearing on Saturday detailing a shooting at Dunbar High School in D.C. that left one student wounded last week. Two Dunbar students have been arrested and charged in the shooting; Azhari Graves, 18, is being held w Trone continues record-setting spending blitz 05/05/2024 02:32pm • U.S. Rep. David Trone (D-6th) dropped another $12.35 million into his U.S. Senate campaign during the first 3 1/2 weeks of April, bringing his total personal investment in the race to a jaw-dropping $54.1 million. Trone is now the second biggest self-funder in a U.S. Senate race, behind U.S. Sen.