D.C. homes evacuated after fragment of rocket-propelled grenade found
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Version 0 of 1. At least seven houses in Northwest Washington were evacuated for about two hours Wednesday afternoon after a piece of a rocket-propelled grenade was found in the back yard of a vacant rowhouse, according to D.C. police. The component was discovered shortly after 2 p.m. in the 5700 block of Third Place NW in Manor Park, just off Georgia Avenue. D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier described the component as a piece of a rocket-propelled grenade, or RPG, a shoulder-mounted anti-tank weapon. Lanier said it was not clear what precisely the component was, but she said authorities were treating it seriously. Police had no information on who found the device or how, or the age of the part. Authorities removed the device for further investigation about 4:15 p.m. Roads were reopened and residents were allowed to return to their homes. Two people were taken into police custody and a 17-year-old was hospitalized after a fight at the L’Enfant Plaza Metro station Wednesday afternoon. Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said one youth engaged in a fistfight with another, who was knocked to the ground and had to be hospitalized. The attacker fled on a Green Line train with a friend. Stessel said the fight occurred about 3 p.m. and started as a “mutual affair.” “It wasn’t an unprovoked assault,” Stessel said. “In the fight, the individual who was on the losing end ended up on the ground.” He said Metro Transit Police officers who gave chase were not able to catch the two people before they boarded the train. The victim was taken to George Washington University Hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, he said. A 19-year-old man died Wednesday morning after his motorcycle collided with a vehicle in Herndon, Va., police said. The man was heading east on Monroe Street about 9:30 a.m. when his motorcycle struck a car heading north on Van Buren Street, Herndon police said. The motorcyclist was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Authorities were withholding the victim’s name until his next of kin can be notified. |