U.Md. student is P.G.’s 11th homicide in 2011
An 11th person has been killed in as many days in Prince George’s County, this time involving a man in a ski mask near the University of Maryland campus in College Park, police said.
Police said the victim was a 22-year-old University of Maryland student, but have not released the name. Police said the killing was drug-related and that officers were looking for a thin, 6-foot-tall black male who wore a gray scarf around his face and all-black clothing.
Campus police sent an e-mail warning to students, faculty and employees that officers were looking for the suspect after the shooting on the 8800 block of 38th Avenue at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday.
In the first 11 days of the year there have been 11 homicides in the county, all inside the Beltway.
Georgetown swimmer plunges
from 5th-story dorm window
An 18-year-old member of the Georgetown University swim team has survived a five-story fall from her dormitory room window.
Around 1:45 a.m. Tuesday, Michelle Konkoly, a freshman from of Eagleville, Pa., accidentally fell from her dormitory room window in Village C West, university spokeswoman Rachel Pugh said. Konkoly was injured but conscious when emergency workers arrived.
She was taken to the George Washington Hospital in serious condition.
BMW explodes in Arlington
A late-model BMW exploded Tuesday morning in Arlington, but police do not believe that the blast was intentional.
Arlington County police spokeswoman Detective Crystal Nosal said authorities were called to a car fire on the 2100 block of South Ninth Street around 8:30 a.m. Something in the back of the vehicle had detonated, and the fire department is still determining what caused the explosion, she said.
Nosal said it appears that the explosion was accidental.
Scott McCabe
