[Lincolnparkdc] murder vs etiquette

[Elizabeth O'Gorek]

Mimi:
The decedent has been identified as *25-year-old Marcellus Smith* of
Southeast, DC.

Elizabeth O'Gorek
the Hill Rag
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM Lucia DiVenere <lucia.divenere at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yannis, finally a voice of sanity.
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM Muriel Wolf <murieldubrow at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Do we know  the name of the person who was killed in this unfortunate
>> incident?   Please share that
>> information if you have it.   Thanks, Mimi Wolf
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM Yannis Labrou <labrou at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, putting a name below a posting is helpful, useful and
>>> preferred practice. Signing, or making it clear that it is coming from Lincoln
>>> Park Newsletter (and its email address   friendsofcapitolhillparks at
>>> gmail.com) is not exactly anonymous and will do for me. I can go to its
>>> webpage and get an idea of its style and tone.
>>>
>>> But more importantly, at least nine bullets were fired by a bunch of
>>> people riding mopeds and/or ATV's, killing an individual (targeted or
>>> random still unknown) and also damaging two cars.
>>>
>>> I repeat ... one or more persons riding through our neighborhood fired
>>> multiple shots killing another person. They fired them with no concern for
>>> injury or damage beyond their intended victim. It is absurd to write this,
>>> as if it is OK to only murder their intended victim. Walk to the location
>>> at the corner of Kentucky and East Capitol. Take a moment to find the
>>> yellow circles of the bullet casing on East Capitol. Look at where the
>>> victim was standing (corner of the treebox) and give some thought to where
>>> those bullets could have ended up. You could have been walking your dog or
>>> parking a car on our street. It was not that late; 10:08 pm.
>>>
>>> Discussing listserv etiquette with such intensity, in light of the
>>> bigger events that triggered it, is baffling. Perhaps it is an indication
>>> of how we have normalized and accepted violence in our city and
>>> neighborhood in the past 5 years.
>>>
>>> In the meantime, I dread parking after dark, usually a block or two
>>> away, I worry about my daughters riding the metro from school and walking
>>> from Eastern Market to home and I hesitate to take a walk on a nice evening
>>> (the nicer the evening the more likely that bad actors are out there too).
>>>
>>> -Yannis Labrou
>>>
>>>
>>>
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