D.C. Metropolitan Police Have Charged Man In Tuesday’s Pistol-Whipping
Thursday, November 28, 2024, 4:15 P.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
WASHINGTON, DC.- A Tuesday night verbal altercation in Southeast, D.C. turns violent, leaving a man hospitalized and a 51-year-old man jailed after he was charged with the pistol-whipping of the man.
According to D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela A. Smith, on Tuesday, November 26, 2024, shortly before 7:30 p.m., members of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department’s Seventh District responded to reports on an assault on the 2700 Block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue in Southeast, D.C.
Police Find Victim And Suspect Within Minutes
Upon arrival, Police Officers found a male victim suffering from multiple lacerations to his head. The victim told Police Officers that he got into a verbal altercation with a male suspect. During the altercation, the suspect became upset and struck the victim multiple times in the head with a handgun. The suspect then tossed the handgun in a nearby trashcan…