WASHINGTON -- As Prince George's County detectives investigate a new murder Wednesday morning -- the 14th in 2011 -- county leadership is reaching out to both the federal government and local citizens to help stay the killing streak.
Officers found a man suffering from gunshot wounds on the 3500 block of Terrace Drive in Suitland around 2:45 a.m. Wednesday. The victim was taken to a local hospital where he died.
This murder adds to a deadly toll that includes 13 murders in the first 12 days of January. Police have made arrests related to four of these cases, interim Police Chief Mark Magaw said at a Tuesday news conference.
"Unless we have community involvement, it will not stop," said County Executive Rushern Baker at the same conference, citing what he sees as the essential component of stemming the killing spate.
"Unless we have community involvement, the state's attorney can't do her job. Unless we have community involvement, the sheriff can't do his job.
"It is the community that is going to make the difference."
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1 comment:
Today is the 19th, right? Fourteen murders in 19 days means that the murdering thugs in PG took a couple of days off. They must have had to have gone to the gun shop to load up on ammo.
(To you pansies out there, that was a JOKE and SARCASM.)
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