Hostage Situation Gridlocks D.C. Traffic

Danzig

Well-Known Member
Updated: Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004 - 11:08 AM

<!-- ========================== STORY BODY ================================= -->WASHINGTON - It appears two people being held hostage at a Ride Aid drug store in Northwest have been rescued by the SWAT team.

Video from WTTG shows two women being escorted separately from the store. One was wearing a store smock.

A gunmen is believed to still be inside the store at 15th and L Streets.

The situation has traffic gridlocked near 15th Street.

WTOP Traffic reports 15th, L and K Streets are closed.

K Street is closed in each direction between 15th and Vermont Avenue.

L Street is shut down between 16th Street and Vermont Avenue.

15th Street is closed between K Street and M Street.

M street is open. Traffic is going one way westbound after Thomas Circle toward New Hampshire Avenue.

The situation has been going on since just before 8 a.m. Tuesday when police received a call about an attempted robbery at the Rite Aid in the 1,000 block of 15th Street, between K and L Streets.

WTOP's Brennan Haselton reports from the scene that someone inside the store with a cell phone was able to call police. There are no reports of anyone being injured.
 

cattitude

My Sweetest Boy
crabcake said:
Doesn't Catt work up that way?
I'm at 20th. I know exactly where that Rite Aid is. :yikes: Used to work right around the corner. It's near the Washington Post and the Post Pub.
 

unixpirate

Pitty Party
Danzig said:
Updated: Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004 - 11:08 AM

<!-- ========================== STORY BODY ================================= -->WASHINGTON - It appears two people being held hostage at a Ride Aid drug store in Northwest have been rescued by the SWAT team.

Video from WTTG shows two women being escorted separately from the store. One was wearing a store smock.

A gunmen is believed to still be inside the store at 15th and L Streets.

The situation has traffic gridlocked near 15th Street.

WTOP Traffic reports 15th, L and K Streets are closed.

K Street is closed in each direction between 15th and Vermont Avenue.

L Street is shut down between 16th Street and Vermont Avenue.

15th Street is closed between K Street and M Street.

M street is open. Traffic is going one way westbound after Thomas Circle toward New Hampshire Avenue.

The situation has been going on since just before 8 a.m. Tuesday when police received a call about an attempted robbery at the Rite Aid in the 1,000 block of 15th Street, between K and L Streets.

WTOP's Brennan Haselton reports from the scene that someone inside the store with a cell phone was able to call police. There are no reports of anyone being injured.

I was smack in the middle of that crap.. Sucked! :moon:
 
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dems4me

Guest
cattitude said:
I'm at 20th. I know exactly where that Rite Aid is. :yikes: Used to work right around the corner. It's near the Washington Post and the Post Pub.


:huggy: Glad to hear you are ok...
 
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Kizzy

Guest
cattitude said:
I'm at 20th. I know exactly where that Rite Aid is. :yikes: Used to work right around the corner. It's near the Washington Post and the Post Pub.


I use to go to that store often when I worked up there. I worked at 15th and L Street.
 

itsbob

I bowl overhand
When are we going to stop playing games with these criminals?? i thought after 9/11 things would have changed, stop the negotiating, stop the coddling. They want to take a hostage, put a 7.62 round in their cranium and get on with life, the next airhead will think twice about taking a hostage.
Cop tells someone to stop, and they run, pop a cap in the back of his noggin, he'll stop, then the next person he tells to stop will..

If we let them get away with it, and give in to them it's only going to get worse...
 

Dymphna

Loyalty, Friendship, Love
itsbob said:
When are we going to stop playing games with these criminals?? i thought after 9/11 things would have changed, stop the negotiating, stop the coddling. They want to take a hostage, put a 7.62 round in their cranium and get on with life, the next airhead will think twice about taking a hostage.
Cop tells someone to stop, and they run, pop a cap in the back of his noggin, he'll stop, then the next person he tells to stop will..

If we let them get away with it, and give in to them it's only going to get worse...
There was nobody to shoot at. :rolleyes: Unless you think they should've taken out the "hostages."
 

itsbob

I bowl overhand
Dymphna said:
There was nobody to shoot at. :rolleyes: Unless you think they should've taken out the "hostages."

Didn't know that after reading just the first post... but if I was ever in a situation where I was taken hostage, I would hope the pOH-lice would react in a way to insure my survival.. kill the stupid bastard that has the gun to my head.
 
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