#UPDATE @PGPDNews issues more charges against yesterday’s carjacking spree suspect (pic below). The man murdered is IDed as 56yo Kurt Modeste of La Plata. His ex-wife says he was a wonderful father of 5 children who was on his way home from church @fox5dc
https://t.co/c6URh3SiVxpgpolice.blogspot.com/2023/07/suspec…
Learning more about the suspect’s history. He had a firearm arrest in August 2022 but @USAO_DC dropped charges after a concern was raised that at least 1 officer involved in the case was also an officer subject to the 7D Crime Suppression Team investigation. @fox5dc

THURSDAY B-CC’s PTSA Pres. testified @ today’s @mocoboe meeting calling for @MCPS to have a robust internal comms plan @ every school, among other changes, after it took MCPS nearly 1HR to communicate directly w/fam’s after last week’s gun scare: go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Bo…
@fox5dc B-CC PTSA Pres. Lyric Winik's testimony calling for communication changes actually happened shortly after the @mocoboe unanimously approved a new Director of Public Information, Jessica Baxter.
I'm told she'll start in a month or so.
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#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.

https://twitter.com/ramirezreports/status/1572214974646296576

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

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.
🧵 .@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.

#HAPPENING NOW @MayorBowser begins her situational update saying she's with the @DCPoliceDept Chief and Secretary of the Army. @fox5dc
@EvanLambertTV to have more updates. 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."

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

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.
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