Trinidad Checkpoints Resume After Spate of Violence

If TSHTF anytime soon, you can expect to see things of a similar nature on a much larger scale.

washingtonpost.com

D.C. police yesterday resumed controversial checkpoints in the troubled Northeast Washington neighborhood of Trinidad after a series of overnight shootings and stabbings across the District left at least 11 people wounded and two dead, including a 13-year-old boy from out of town who was visiting relatives.

In announcing the checkpoints, police said they were searching for three suspects in the Trinidad attacks and a gold 2002 Dodge Intrepid that was allegedly used in at least one of the incidents.

The violence, on a brutally hot summer night that frayed tempers and kept people out on the street late, unfolded over an eight-hour span that ended at 3:30 yesterday morning.

In Trinidad alone, at least six people were shot in separate incidents. Police working at one shooting scene could hear gunshots being fired elsewhere, Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said at news conference.

Late yesterday, investigators appeared to be sorting out the details of the incidents, offering differing numbers of victims at several of the shootings.

“I just think it’s tragic,” said ShaDonna Stevenson, a mother of six in Trinidad. “You’ve got too much violence going on in this neighborhood. I just really hope that it gets better. Because if it doesn’t, a lot of the little kids you see out here playing today, you’re not even going to get to see them grow up.”

The latest incidents were disturbingly similar to an earlier spate of violence in and around Trinidad that occurred over a nine-hour span from May 30-31 and left seven men dead. Five of the killings are unsolved.

July 21, 2008 | Filed Under collapse 

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