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WASHINGTON (Map, News) - A path of destruction was ripped down a Silver Spring street Tuesday afternoon when a man burst into a convenience store, fatally shot a clerk, and then possibly met another man a block away where the two stole a Comcast van at gunpoint.
As of Tuesday evening, the two men were on the run from police in two counties after ditching the van in Prince George’s County, Montgomery County police said.
The shooting on 600 University Blvd. East closed the road for hours as police searched the area for evidence.
Montgomery police received the call for the shooting around 4:10 p.m., and less than five minutes later they were called again for the carjacking of the Comcast van on the 700 block of University Boulevard East near a 7-Eleven. The van was later found on 12th Avenue and Ruatan Street in Langley Park.
A spokeswoman for Montgomery police said they believe the incidents are connected, and she had no description of the suspects. Police will identify the slain store clerk once family has been notified. It is believed he was the only person working there at the time.
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Examiner Reader said:
Well there you go assimilation at its best Bring it on, Falls Church Police are too busy busting speeders in their 20 mph zones. Expensive homes and high crimes ..... Lets all sing Kumbaya
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Examiner Reader said:
Get over the immigration issue! Just because someone is listening to and singing Spanish music, you assume they are illegal - give us all a break!!
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Examiner reader said:
Immigration status, please?
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gunsrgood said:
when you place a ban on handguns the only people who carry them are criminals and cops. If citizens would be allowed to carry them that guy would never have gotten of a single round. and the only person who would have been injured would be him. lift the ban on handguns. for your own protection.
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Examiner Reader said:
Someone shoud as the Mayor why one of the 15 year old kids shot was taken out of his class room not by school staff but by members of the Peaceaholics and made to confront the same group that hours later would shoot him. The Peaceaholics were not even supposed to be in the school let along allowed to take a child out of class to confront other students. This confrontation lead to the shooting a short time later.
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Examiner Reader said:
9 police officers in one school. Let me guess...
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Veteren said:
Here we go again, stupid children with no parential guidance doing stupid things. Neighborhood Feud over property and space they have no ownership in. I will bet when this investigation is complete the perpetrators will be a mixture of high school drop outs who reside with a relative who provide no parental guidance and reside in public housing. Another sad state of the District mis-guided policies and poor parential guidence who allow their thug children to prevent those students trying to do the right thing in obtaining an education
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