One shot in Adams Morgan
D.C. police are investigating a shooting in Adams Morgan that was caught on a police surveillance camera. Police said the shooting occurred around 9 p.m. Tuesday on the 2200 block of Champlain Street NW near the intersection of Kalorama Road. A man was shot in the leg and was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. D.C. Councilman Jim Graham said police are investigating whether this shooting is related to another shooting Saturday night on nearby Fairmont Street.
Elderly people found dead in forest
The bodies of two elderly people were found in the Appalachian Mountain area of Virginia after they apparently tried to find help after their car was stuck in a snowdrift. The body of an 89-year-old man was found Tuesday about 100 yards off Seven Mile Road in Jefferson National Park, and the body of a 75-year-old woman was discovered a quarter-mile away. There is reportedly no cell phone service in the area where the two were stranded. The bodies had not been identified Wednesday.
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Baltimore officer charged with reward money abuse
A Baltimore police detective was charged Tuesday with arranging for an informant to get more than $10,000 in reward money he didn’t deserve, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Mark J. Lunsford, 29, was also charged with keeping some of the money for himself and with stealing a rose-colored, stainless steel “Aqua Master” diamond watch worth more than $1,000.
Prisoner gets life for rape
A convicted rapist from New York was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for a 1991 Maryland rape that was solved in 2008 through DNA testing. Leslie Maize is in prison in New York for a 1993 rape, but will begin serving the Maryland sentence after he is released.
– Compiled by Alana Goodman and Scott McCabe
