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Entries from DCist tagged with 'assault'

October 7, 2008

D.C. police arrested two men in connection with an alleged assault against a gay man in Georgetown late last week. A source told the Washington Blade that the victim, a 23-year-old Georgetown University medical student, was walking along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal path on 34th Street NW with a friend around 3 a.m. on October 3. Two other men, whom the source described as "Muslim and being of 'Middle Eastern descent,'" approached them and......

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September 12, 2008

Metro Weekly reports that two Maryland men were attacked and robbed on their way to Be Bar in Shaw on Sunday night. According to the police report, a group of four men beat the victims and made off with $15 and a set of car keys. One of the victims, a 37-year-old from Clinton, is on life support; the other, a 23-year-old from Fort Washington, was treated at a hospital for a bruised jaw and......

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September 4, 2008

View Larger Map Montgomery County police are investigating after finding the body an unidentified woman, who appears to be in her 60s, inside a home just outside the Capital Beltway this morning. Officers responded to a report of an assault in the 8900 block of Seven Locks Road, and when they arrived, found the dead woman inside. This is the same general area where a string of home invasions attacking elderly residents occurred late last......

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March 20, 2008

The Associated Press has a shameful story this morning accusing the National Zoo's beloved panda cub, Tai Shan (aka Butterstick), of injuring a zookeeper. Pandas don't do anything wrong, AP! They are only adorable and cuddly and lovable and that's all. Didn't you get the memo? So the story is that Tai Shan entered his yard through an unsecured door Tuesday during a routine feeding, where he attempted to "play" with a zookeeper he encountered......

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