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The Red Line is a total mess this morning after a man died after being struck by a train at the Gallery Place-Chinatown station around 8 a.m. this morning. Metro reports that the man placed himself on the tracks intentionally. There is no Red Line service moving through bothe Gallery Place and Metro Center -- Metro is operating shuttle buses between Farragut North and Judiciary Square while police conduct an investigation. Service on other lines at Metro Center and Gallery Place has not been affected. While Sunday is usually the slowest day of the week for Metro, today was already chock full of delays for track maintenance -- those of you taking the Red Line anywhere this morning would be wise to factor in quite a bit of extra time to get to your destination. UPDATE: As of 11:11 a.m., Metro reports that regular Red Line service has been restored to both stations.

The man who was found dead in Rock Creek Park on Friday has been identified as Larry Frankel, 54. Frankel was State Legislative Director for the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office, and previously served as executive director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania.

There are early reports coming in that D.C. police have found the body of a man in Rock Creek Park. A jogger reportedly called in finding the body at around 11 a.m., and police say it was lying in a creek near 24th Street and Beach Drive NW. Another Rock Creek jogger who happened by the scene tells DCist that the man appeared to have been discovered face down in the water, and that he was dressed in jogging clothes. No word yet from police on the cause or nature of this death.

Metro says that Orange Line service in the area around the West Falls Church-VT/UVA station has returned to normal. At 11:18 a.m. this morning, a man was killed in an apparent suicide by a six-car Orange Line train heading in the direction of New Carrollton. Trains were single tracking through the station until approximately 2 p.m., but WMATA says the incident has now been cleared.

Metropolitan Police Department officials are investigating the death of Benjamin Koomen, a genetic diagnostic laboratory supervisor who was found near Meridian Hill Park on Sunday morning. Koomen, 34, died at 3:30 p.m. on August 9 as a result of injuries he sustained, which DCist first glossed after a reader discovered blood at the park. MPD Assistant Chief Diane Groomes said that the cause of death has not been determined and that police are still awaiting results of both the autopsy and an ongoing investigation by the homicide unit. Police in the Public Information office, however, said investigators have ruled out foul play. Koomen's friends and coworkers have reacted to this unexpected tragedy with an outpouring of sadness and grief. One friend describes him as an exceptionally bright person who should not have died as he did, while others have flooded his Facebook page with notes of remembrance. No doubt, the lingering questions about how his death came to pass have only compounded that grief.

A man was struck and killed by a Red Line train at the Forest Glen station at just after 4:15 p.m. today. The man was struck by an eight-car train heading in the direction of Shady Grove. Preliminary reports indicate that the individual intentionally put himself on the track. Trains are currently single tracking between Forest Glen and Silver Spring. Given this incident's timing with the rush hour and the continued slowdown on the Red Line in the wake of last week's deadly crash, customers are being told to expect lengthy delays. That seems like an understatement.

UPDATE: City officials are sticking to seven confirmed dead, despite earlier news reports that nine people died. The two additional reported deaths may or may not have been due to confusion about the two critical patients -- we'll continue to monitor reports.

A man who was shot near the intersection of 7th and N M Streets NW Thursday night died of his injuries. The Metropolitan Police Department said it is investigating the shooting, which happened at approximately 9:37 p.m., as a homicide.

Grim story of the death of District Heights, Md. resident Valicia Demery, only 19. The AP via WTOP reports her beaten body was found by a jogger at about 6:30 a.m. Sunday on the running track at Forestville Military Academy, the high school from which the victim had recently graduated. WJLA has heartbreaking reaction from Demery's family and friends, plus this detail: "Demery's father Garrett says that she left the family home around 4 a.m. Sunday, less than three hours before her body was found." NBC4 puts the fact that Demery was four months pregnant front and center. A sad story that seems certain to only get sadder.

Metro has released the name of the man who was fatally struck by an Orange Line train this weekend. WUSA-9 first reported the news that the victim was Kevin Deiss, 22, of Columbia, Md. Deiss died at the East Falls Church station at around 1:44 a.m. on Sunday. Metro Transit Police are reportedly awaiting toxicology reports on the deceased, and have previously stated they do not believe foul play was involved.

A Metro press release has identified the man who was struck and killed by a Blue Line train yesterday at McPherson Square. Kurtland Johnson, 42, of Washington, DC, reportedly stepped in front of the train around shortly after 1 p.m. yesterday, according to witnesses.

We mentioned it briefly in this morning's roundup, but there's a bit more information available on last night's fatal rowhouse fire in the 400 block of Emerson Street NW. The victim's name has still not been released pending notification of her family, but the Post is reporting that she was 64 years old. She was found on the 2nd floor of the home and pronounced dead later a local hospital. A second person who was in the home sustained non-life threatening injuries. The cause of the fire is believed to have been accidental, and DCFD is investigating why the woman who died was not able to escape. The home reportedly did have working smoke detectors.

The Post has a story up about the death of Sharlynn Bobo, the former director of the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency who resigned last year in the wake of the Banita Jacks case. Bobo died on Saturday due to complications related to pancreatic cancer, which she was diagnosed with only in November. She resigned from her position last summer. Her sudden death has shocked her former colleagues. Bobo was a graduate of D.C.'s McKinley High School and attended George Washington University and Howard University.

The George Washington University GW Hatchet blog is reporting that sophomore Laura Treanor was found dead in her room in the university's Ivory Tower residence hall this morning. Treanor was the The Hatchet student newspaper's contributing Life editor. Initial reports indicate that the death was not a homicide or a suicide, and that the death is not being investigated as suspicious. Treanor was discovered this morning by a roommate.

Grim details emerged this afternoon in the death of 13-year-old Alexis "Lexie" Glover, of Manassas. We mentioned briefly this morning that Glover's mother, Alfreedia Leona Gregg-Glover, had been charged with neglect in the death of her daughter, who was developmentally challenged. Well the Post is now reporting that police have evidence that Gregg-Glover placed her daughter's body in a Woodbridge area creek bed before she reported her missing to police. Gregg-Glover has not been charged in her daughter's death, and police have not ruled the death a homicide; she was arrested and charged with felony child neglect and filing a false police report.

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WJLA reports that a Prince George's County grand jury hearing evidence in the June killing of inmate Ronnie White has disbanded without issuing an indictment. Medical examiners determined that White died from asphyxiation from being strangled to death while in custody on homicide charges in the death of Prince George's County Police Sergeant Richard Findley. The Post follows up with a quote from State's Attorney Glenn Ivey as saying that a new grand jury has been empaneled and will hear evidence in the case.

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WTOP is reporting that Joshua Stoll and Michael Feiock, the two men who died in July when their heads hit an overpass while riding on the roof of an Open Top Sightseeing bus shuttling fans to Nationals Park, were legally drunk when they died. Police believe both men were standing on the seats at the time of the crash. Open Top is still operating its regular tour buses in D.C., but its Nationals shuttles have been suspended since the accident.

The Post reports that the body of an adult male was found on the tracks near Union Station shortly before 8 a.m. today. At the time, MARC reported that trains on the Camden and Brunswick lines had come to a complete stop in both directions due to the police investigation. Both lines were reopened by 10 a.m., but those caught in the morning commute mess had to take Metro in to D.C. after MARC trains were sent back to Greenbelt and Silver Spring stations, respectively. The death remains under investigation. On Sunday, an apparent double suicide in Baltimore County resulted in two deaths on a set of CSX train tracks there.

The Examiner has word of the death of another child who had been recently brought to the attention of the District's troubled Child and Family Services Agency. A 6-year-old girl, identified only by her initials, DHB, swallowed a handful of antidepressants prescribed to her father. She was taken to a hospital last week, and later died. Two weeks before, someone called the city’s child welfare hot line and reported the family was having “a housing issue,” Interim Attorney General Peter Nickles told the paper. A social worker assigned to the case, but who never saw the child, has been suspended and might be fired.

You may recall the mysterious death of a 3-year-old girl in Potomac, Md. about a month ago. A mother and two children had been seen walking down the road to a gas station, and then later, turned up at a fire station with the daughter having sustained fatal injuries. The mother had been described as behaving erratically enough that an employee at the gas station where they were seen called police. The Post reports that police have finally determined that the little girl died as the result of an accident. A 16-year-old boy picked the family up to give them a ride back to their vehicle, and accidentally hit her after letting her out of his car. The teen driver didn't know he had hit Jasmine Afolabi and drove off. No charges will be filed.

At approximately 2 a.m. on Thursday, 18-year-old Derrick Green was found shot in the head in an alley behind the 1300 block of Vermont Ave., very close to Logan Circle. Green lived only about a block away, in the 1300 block of 14th Street NW. He was pronounced dead on the scene when police and EMS arrived. So far the police have no suspect or clue as to a motive in the case.

You had to know this was coming. Open Top Sightseeing, the bus company that operates the Nationals shuttle on which two people died on Friday night when their heads hit an overpass, is suspending the service for the time being. Open Top wouldn't talk with reporters for a couple days after the accident, but their lawyer, Jim Rodio, has since spoken to the Associated Press, and this is the first time we've seen an answer to the obvious question: did the two men who died know they needed to stay seated during the entire ride? Rodio says the company instructs passengers seated on the roof of the bus to remain seated during rides. Of course, whether the passengers on this particular bus received those instructions remains to be seen. Police are investigating. Open Top is still operating its regular tour buses in D.C.

On the blocks around Dupont Circle yesterday evening, there were more bikes than usual for a standard evening commute. Their point of convergence was the corner of 20th and R Streets NW, adjacent to the outdoor diners at La Tomate, most of whom looked on in some confusion as the crowd continued to gather at the corner, and members of the press set up microphones at the Washington Area Bicyclist’s Association’s podium. Organizers reminded the growing group to keep the walkways clear for pedestrians as volunteers handed out packets containing a bicycle safety book and a pocket guide to D.C.’s bike laws, the packets adorned with a small white ribbon as a reminder of the reason everyone was there.

The Washington Area Bicyclist Association has just announced a press conference for this evening on the death of bicyclist Alice Swanson. Swanson was killed by a garbage truck just before 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning.

D.C. Police this afternoon identified the cyclist who was killed just north of Dupont Circle as 22-year-old District resident Alice Swanson. Scant other details are available yet about the accident, but WTOP says that at this point, no charges have been filed against the driver.

The AP is reporting that a 22-year-old woman has died after being struck by a garbage truck while riding her bicycle near Dupont Circle this morning. The garbage truck, which was not owned by the city but rather a private company, struck the woman at Connecticut and R Streets NW just before 8:30 a.m. The roadway around the accident site was shut down while officers investigated the scene. The woman has not yet been identified.

This really smells like it is going to get so much worse. The death of Ronnie White, the 19-year-old man who was arrested over the weekend on charges that he murdered a Prince George's County police officer, has been ruled a homicide. White appears to have been strangled to death while in custody in a county jail -- he had two broken bones in his neck and medical examiners have determined he died from asphyxiation, reports the Post. More on this tomorrow.

The local Tampa Bay FOX affiliate, FOX13, is reporting that Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known in the media as the D.C. Madam who was last month convicted of money laundering, using the mail for illegal purposes and racketeering, has been found dead in Tarpon Springs, FL, of an apparent suicide.