Crime scene tape – Photo: Kat Wilcox, via Wikimedia.
A D.C. man was fatally shot on Monday afternoon, prompting D.C. police to make an arrest in the case.
At approximately 3:58 p.m., members of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Fourth District responded to reports of gunshots in the 600 block of Jefferson Street NW, in the city’s Brightwood Park neighborhood.
Upon arriving at the location, police discovered 35-year-old John Edmonds, of Northwest D.C., suffering from gunshot wounds.
DC Fire and EMS responded to the scene and transported Edmonds to a local hospital, where he ultimately succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead.
Police later arrested 23-year-old Treavon Johnson, of Newport News, Virginia, and charged him with second-degree murder while armed.
Investigating detectives have characterized the incident as domestic in nature. No other details have been released at this time.
Police in Commerce City, Colorado, have arrested an e-bike rider who allegedly hurled homophobic slurs at a gay couple before shooting and critically wounding one of the men.
The apparent road-rage shooting occurred around 9:30 p.m. on August 1 near the victims' apartment complex on East 62nd Avenue. One of the men told police he was driving with his husband in the passenger seat when two e-bike riders cut them off.
The driver told detectives that he honked and flashed his lights at the riders, who began following the car while shouting anti-gay slurs and other derogatory remarks at the couple, according to a police affidavit.
Protest Pizza + Bar, a gay-owned pizzeria in D.C.'s Dupont Circle neighborhood, was robbed of $78 during an early-morning break-in on Friday, August 21.
As reported by D.C.-based FOX affiliate WTTG, surveillance video captured a man dressed in black, with his face covered, approaching the pizzeria at 1633 1/2 P Street NW shortly before 3 a.m.
The suspect attempted to force open the front door before smashing its glass and entering the business. Once inside, he leapt over the bar, ran to a cash register in the back, grabbed the money inside, and fled.
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