#UPDATE2
.@fox5dc has been asking @MCPS to confirm coach involvement in last Friday’s Gaithersburg/Northwest HS football game fight. Now my colleague @Mia_FOX5DC’s discovered an assault charge was filed yesterday. *Appears Gburg’s AD filed against NW’s head football coach.
Asking again & asking why @MCPS won’t confirm or answer Q’s around the assault charge, I’m told: “These are personnel investigations and at this moment I do not have all the relevant facts. We will comment with what can be said at an appropriate time.” @fox5dc
Quickly spoke with @1HawkIsland, who confirmed he heard an assault charge was filed against him. Asked both he & @NorthwestJags for a response.
MD Case Search info says there’s a prelim hearing scheduled for November 7th. Told court doc’s won’t be available until then.
#NEW@MCPS just announced a 2:30PM News Conference TOMORROW to discuss enhanced security measures for MCPS sporting events.
LIVESTREAM links: montgomeryschoolsmd.org &
When you look at @KeeleySports1's VIDs from last Friday - instagram.com/p/CiniC8ujfPe/ - he notes that a G-burg member could be seen getting hit from behind -- but before that, you also see that same person appear to put hands on someone else. @MCPS still not confirming.
Even that video is a moment captured. The complaint itself doesn’t make clear who is responsible. Hopefully @MCPS can provide some clarity either at tomorrow’s presser or beforehand.
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Coming up @ 5P: the activist group @PCMC1 is waiving a 🚩 on a $9.7 million diesel school bus emergency purchase order that’s supposed to go B4 the @mocoboe school board tomorrow. We got to ask @MCPS some about it today.
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.@MCPS Spokesperson Chris Cram says the purchase is due to a supply chain issue impacting the special education electric bus orders (which is supposed to start coming in, in 2023). That’s not stated in the memorandum.
The @PCMC1 is questioning whether this is a cover-up & feels it should not be considered for emergency but rather something that should’ve gone before the school board FIRST so parents have an opportunity to comment. Cram also claims MCPS is not double spending.
News conference notes:
-Curfew: 6a - 6p tomorrow - ONLY essential workers (including credential media)
-@MayorBowser urges residents to stay home & stay calm. See something, say something
"The behavior we are witnesses is shameful, unpatriotic and above all, it is unlawful."
-@DCPoliceDept deployed to assist U.S. Capitol Police in restoring order. MPD Chief Contee will lead the command to clear Capitol Building
-VA & MD state police deployed @MayorBowser also uses mutual aid w/Arlington, MoCo, Prince George's Co & Baltimore City. NJ Police to assist
The grandfather of Davon McNeal, the 11yo boy shot & killed in SE DC last night, cried, pleading for parents to step-up. Says his daughter, a Violence Interrupter who works with @trayonwhite held a July 4th event to watch the fireworks when MPD says a group started shooting.
Davon’s other grandfather tells me the family moved out of the neighborhood bc of the violence. They still have family here & mom threw a July 4th ‘stop the violence’ type cookout. John Ayala says 11yo Davon was only dropping by to pick up a charger & ear buds when shots rang out
Neighbors & @DCPoliceUnion confirm this is the same area where on June 29th, two people were seen in an Audi opening their doors & opening fire through the Cedar St. SE cul-de-sac & it looks like through the alley as well. @DCPoliceDept posted to YouTube. @fox5dc
An @ACPSk12 Spokesperson tells @fox5dc a 2nd letter was expected to go home w/students Friday in regards to the 18yo T.C. Williams HS student arrested for the double murder of two former Northwest HS students: 19yo Ayanna Griffin & 21yo "Joel" Bianda @fox5dc
The student arrested at the HS yesterday is 18yo Mohamed Aly, who appears to have been a football player at T.C. Williams. @fox5dc
I spoke to Ayanna Griffin’s father at the Fairfax Blvd @jimmyjohns where his daughter worked. He spent the day collecting her items, including a pair of shoes left at JJ. Said it was emotional to see a ‘Gravity Falls’ drawing Ayanna left behind bc they watched the show together.