D.C. officer charged with DUI, shooting
An off-duty D.C. police officer who shot a person has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon and driving while intoxicated. Police said Officer Kenneth Furr got into a confrontation with five other people, including some of whom were transgender, at about 5:25 a.m. Friday at First and Pierce streets NW. Furr discharged a handgun and one person was shot. Two other people involved in the incident sustained injuries. The nature of those injuries is under investigation. This was the third shooting of a transgender person in the District this summer, including one who was killed. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier, who is trying to patch up her relationship with some members of the gay community, was on the scene of the shooting Friday morning. 2 fatal weekend shootings
Leonard Bigelow, a 43-year-old northeast D.C. resident, was shot and killed in the District Friday night, police said. Bigelow was shot around 10:40 p.m. on the 1300 block of Emerald St. NE and died after being transported to a local hospital. Police are investigating the case as a homicide. Another man was shot Saturday afternoon in Prince George’s County. Police found the man around 1 p.m. at a residential home in the 10100 block of Bignonia Drive in Laurel, Md; he was pronounced dead on the scene. Police believe the suspect was an acquaintance of the victim, spokesman Henry Tippett said.
Child kidnapped, assaulted, returns home
A 5-year-old Franconia girl was kidnapped and assaulted Saturday morning but returned home on her own, WTOP reported. The girl was kidnapped out of her home on the 7000 block of Brocton Court between midnight and 2 a.m Saturday morning, taken to a nearby location and assaulted, police told WTOP. She then managed to make her way back home around 4 a.m. Her parents did not realize she had been kidnapped until she returned home.
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