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On 26 Feb 2022, Trump Is A RUSSIAN ASSET <jthomq@gmail.com> posted some news:sve6vj$1rlus$3@news.freedyn.de:

Get the niggers under control. Shoot some and leave them rot in the
street. Shoot anyone else who complains about it and leave them rot
too.

A former Trump administration official was critically injured during a
deadly spree of carjackings in Washington, D.C. and Maryland Monday
night, according to news reports.

There has been a recent spike in violent car thefts in the nation's
capital, including heists that targeted a member of Congress and an FBI
agent.

The latest incident unfolded over one night, police said, when a man in
the grip of a mental health episode stole multiple vehicles in the
district and neighboring Prince George's County, fatally shot one victim
and severely wounded another. The suspect was killed by police,
according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

By Wednesday afternoon, police had not released the suspect's name.

The chaotic events on Monday occurred as officials are tracking an
uptick in crimes like this: carjackings in 2023 nearly doubled from the
year prior, according to Metropolitan Police Department data.

"The violence that we saw yesterday was senseless and tragic and we know
that two families are experiencing an unthinkable tragedy," Washington
Mayor Muriel Bowser said at a news conference Tuesday, referencing the
victims.

The events began around 5:45 p.m. Monday when the man climbed into an
occupied car parked on K Street in downtown Washington, less than a mile
from the White House, officials said. The suspect shot the driver and
then fled the car on foot.

Local news reports identified the driver as Mike Gill, the former
chairman of Washington's Board of Elections under the Trump
administration. Reports indicated Gill was critically wounded in the
shooting.

Police said the man who reports identified as the former Trump official
exited the car, walked to the sidewalk and collapsed, according to MPD Executive Assistant Chief Jeffery Carroll.

The man was hospitalized for "life-threatening injuries," according to a
police press release. Police did not update his status on Wednesday.

Less than two hours after Gill was shot, police said the same suspect
tried unsuccessfully to gain entry to another car in the Northeast part
of the city, around 1.5 miles away.

Ten minutes afterward, the suspect approached 35-year-old Alberto
Vasquez, Jr. and a female companion in that neighborhood and demanded
Vasquez hand over his keys to his nearby car. The suspect then shot
Vasquez and stole the car, officials said. Vasquez died at a hospital
later that night, according to police.

Family members of Vasquez did not respond to a request for comment.

MPD officials said the suspect then drove to neighboring Prince George's County, Maryland, where he carried out two other carjackings in the
hours that followed.

Carroll, from the MPD, said detectives used witness accounts to narrow
in on a potential suspect from Prince George's County who fit the
description of the man they believed had carried out the string of
crimes.

About 3 a.m. on Tuesday the suspect was driving on a Maryland Interstate highway in one of the stolen vehicles when he fired shots at a passing
Sixth District police cruiser, Carroll said. Authorities did not
apprehend him at that time.

The man was ultimately found after New Carrollton police encountered one
of the stolen vehicles four miles northeast of the Maryland-District of Columbia border. Police were investigating the scene, near a commercial
area, when the suspect approached the officers and brandished two
handguns. Officers fired at the suspect and struck him, the Maryland
Attorney General's Office said. The suspect was transported to a
hospital where he was pronounced dead, the attorney general's office
said.

More:Homicide rates dropped in big cities. Why has the nation's capital
seen a troubling rise?

MPD initiatives fail to stop spike in carjackings
Three years ago, MPD formed a special task force to respond to
carjackings; however, statistics show it did not make significant
progress in curbing the trend. Carjacking did briefly dip in the spring
of 2021 after the initiative was launched, but the incidents resumed at
similar levels.

The task force assigned a specialized group of detectives to investigate carjackings in the District that would collaborate with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and the local field office of the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, according to a press release.

In 2022, the Washington mayor announced she was expanding the program
and enlisting officers from the Prince George's County Police
Department. Again, the interventions did little to curb the crime.
Instead, carjackings rose to 140 incidents in July of 2023 – more heists
than had happened during the prior three Julys.

The local trend drew national attention after several high-profile
carjacking incidents, including one in October involving Texas Rep.
Henry Cuellar, whose vehicle was stolen by three armed assailants in the
trendy Navy Yard neighborhood, officials said. Cuellar was not harmed
and his car was recovered. Police never announced any arrests in
Cuellar's case. The following month, an FBI agent was also carjacked at gunpoint, MPD said. Days later, police arrested a 17-year-old and
charged him with the crime.

Recently, local law enforcement has adopted several new strategies to
cut down on this crime. Earlier this month, MPD announced it was giving
away free Apple AirTag tracking devices to residents in areas "where MPD
has seen the greatest increase in vehicle theft," according to Bowser's announcement. The digital tracking devices, police said, would make it
easier for officers to track stolen vehicles.

In February of last year, police in Washington also handed out free
steering wheel locks to city residents who own a 2011 to 2021 Kia or
Hyundai. A defect in the car models prompted a noticeable increase in carjackings nationwide after the popularization of a Tiktok challenge
that encouraged thefts of the vehicles, according to an analysis from
the Brennan Center of Justice.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/31/carjacking-washingt on-dc-trump-official-crime-spree/72421122007/

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