Four similar street robberies in 3 hours early Saturday in NW Washington
By Martin Weil
Febuary 22 12:04 am
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The first of the incidents occurred about 12:40 a.m. in the 2100 block of Second Street NW. A victim was assaulted and items were taken, police said.
The second incident occurred about a block away and five minute later, in the 2000 block of Second. Again the victim was assaulted, the police said.
The third robbery was about a half mile south, on R Street NW, about 1:15 a..m. and the final one was about 3 a.m. in the same vicinity, in the 1700 block of First Street NW.
And see this MPD tweet:
VIDEO: Persons of Interest in Armed Robbery, 1700 b/o 1st St, NW, on February 9, 2019. Have info? Call (202) 727-9099/text 50411. https://t.co/yqvXGIqayf— DC Police Department (@DCPoliceDept) February 11, 2019
Lived on 2nd street for 17 years but finally sold the house and moved last month after having our first child. Major factor in leaving was the unrelenting crime; it was, I guess, ok for me to have been mugged twice in my time there but I am not willing to expose my kid to crap like the mid-day weekend shootings in the Park at Ledroit or the risk of her father getting hurt or killed by the next mugger. The sharp increase in DC's murder rate was a strong signal that it's time to leave. The buyer was an investor so the neighborhood has lost an invested homeowner and gained transient renters. Sad because I loved (most parts of) living there but I don't see this issue improving anytime soon given the politics.
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