From MPD 3rd District listserv on Yahoo! Groups… here is the news release about a shooting early this morning in Adams Morgan in the 2200-block of Champlain Street NW (east side of the Marie Reed Center). The suspect was fatally shot and two officers were wounded; one is in the hospital.

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From the MPD, via the Third District listserv on Yahoo! Groups:

(Washington, DC) – The Metropolitan Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance to identify and locate a suspect wanted in connection with an armed robbery which occurred on Columbia Road, NW.

At approximately 9:05 a.m., on Saturday, January 31, 2009, a lone male reportedly entered C.W. Financial located in the 1700 block of Columbia Road, NW. Once inside the suspect displayed a silver colored handgun and robbed the business of an undetermined amount of cash before fleeing the scene.

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Police have charged a suspect with two D.C. murders, one of them the Dec. 10 killing of Derrell Goins (Dec. 11 posting here) in Adams Morgan. Details from the MPD  news release follow, with information on the Adams Morgan murder highlighted in red:

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