Driver admits to raping elderly D.C. clinic client
A 57-year-old District man who drove senior citizens to a District clinic that provides services for elderly who have depression pleaded guilty to raping one of his clients. Tilaye Teshome Wake pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree sexual abuse. He admitted that he raped a 75-year-old woman in her District apartment after she decided not to go to PSI Services Inc. because she wasn’t feeling well, prosecutors said. Wake was a driver for Med-Trans Inc., which had a contract to drive PSI’s clients. PSI is funded by multiple jurisdictions, including the District.
Man shot while driving car into P.G. sheriff’s deputy
An off-duty Prince George’s County sheriff’s deputy shot and wounded a man who drove his car into another deputy, officials said. Two deputies were providing security at a Temple Hills nightclub when a fight broke out around 1 a.m. Thursday. As the deputies tried to stop the brawl, one of the men involved jumped into a car and drove into a deputy. The other deputy opened fire and hit the driver. Both the driver and the deputy struck by the car were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Compiled by Freeman Klopott
