Two young males, possibly teenagers, both armed with handguns approached him, demanded his keys and cellphone, then drove away in his Volkswagen Passat.
“I think the police chief said it the other day,” Donnelly said. “I’m sick and tired of this, and I agree with him, but our people, we’re still going to be serving, but is very disappointing.”
The carjacking happened less than 48 hours after another D.C. firefighter had his car stolen. It was parked in front Engine 21 on Lanier Place NW in Adams Morgan. After hours of responding to emergency calls, the firefighter returned to the station Tuesday morning to find his Chevy Cruze was gone.
The car thief entered the station and removed the victim’s keys from his locker, according to the police report.
The firefighter’s car was the second car stolen in that same block of Lanier Place in three days.
On Saturday evening, a driver who left her Toyota Camry running while making a delivery watched as someone drove away in her car.
D.C.’s crime statistics show overall violent crime is down so far in 2021 and the homicide rate is on par with last year, but car thefts are up 25 percent.
Police want to hear from anyone who may have security camera video of the car theft at the fire station.
Italy was about to enter lockdown as the second week of March 2020 opened for business, and lots of us had started washing our hands more frequently, but how many Washingtonians could have foreseen that many people in the area were about to work from home for more than a year? We took a look back at what
Washingtonian published one year ago this week, and while we can laugh a tiny bit at how little we knew about what was ahead of us public officials were warning us
against wearing face masks at the time, “Karen” was simply a name, and it might have seemed farfetched that the President would encourage his fans to storm the Capitol after he lost an election retrospect does kind of make you wonder what the rest of 2021 has in store.