Posted on Apr 26, 2022
Suspected Van Ness Shooter Had Hundreds Of Unspent Rounds, D.C. Police Searching For Motive
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It’s almost a strangely routine detail: only hours before allegedly opening fire on the Edmund Burke School in Van Ness on Friday afternoon, suspected gunman Raymond Spencer bought two microwavable meals at a nearby supermarket.
That revelation is among the tidbits that D.C. police are piecing together about Spencer’s whereabouts ahead of the shooting, which injured four people, scrambled law enforcement, and kept students and nearby residents on edge for hours as police searched and evacuated the Ava Van Ness apartment — from which Spencer is said to have fired more than 200 rounds at the school located across a shared alley.
Speaking during a press briefing on Monday afternoon, D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee said police had recovered four long guns — three of them set up to fire automatically — and two handguns from the apartment, along with 800 unspent rounds of ammunition. (The guns were all purchased legally.) But he also revealed that police had recovered parts of three other long guns from an apartment Spencer rented in Fairfax, as well as another 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
Contee said Spencer, a graduate of Wheaton High School who briefly served in the U.S. Coast Guard, rented the apartment in the Ava in Jan. 2022. He also said that Spencer was caught on surveillance cameras the night before the shooting rolling a large bag into the building, and that he had placed his own camera outside his apartment to see anyone approaching.
That revelation is among the tidbits that D.C. police are piecing together about Spencer’s whereabouts ahead of the shooting, which injured four people, scrambled law enforcement, and kept students and nearby residents on edge for hours as police searched and evacuated the Ava Van Ness apartment — from which Spencer is said to have fired more than 200 rounds at the school located across a shared alley.
Speaking during a press briefing on Monday afternoon, D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee said police had recovered four long guns — three of them set up to fire automatically — and two handguns from the apartment, along with 800 unspent rounds of ammunition. (The guns were all purchased legally.) But he also revealed that police had recovered parts of three other long guns from an apartment Spencer rented in Fairfax, as well as another 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
Contee said Spencer, a graduate of Wheaton High School who briefly served in the U.S. Coast Guard, rented the apartment in the Ava in Jan. 2022. He also said that Spencer was caught on surveillance cameras the night before the shooting rolling a large bag into the building, and that he had placed his own camera outside his apartment to see anyone approaching.
Suspected Van Ness Shooter Had Hundreds Of Unspent Rounds, D.C. Police Searching For Motive
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Posted 2 y ago
A diabolical attack.
But what does this have to do with the price of beans in China?
But what does this have to do with the price of beans in China?
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Maj Robert Thornton
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1800 unspent rounds. Hardly worth mentioning. Many folks that own firearms have way more than that.
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MSgt Steven Holt, NRP, CCEMT-P
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Maj Robert Thornton - If I only had 1800 rounds left, I'd be making a trip to the local ammunition retailer. ;)
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Posted 2 y ago
I wonder how much our "instant gratification" society via the multitude of social media platforms play into incidents like this. Everyone wants their "15 minutes" now. When I was growing up before the age of the "Inter-Webs", you were lucky if you knew most of the people in your community. Now, we have "friends" all across the globe thanks to Facebook, Twitter, SnapChat, et al. We rarely had "mass shootings" yet today it seems like there is one every few days. Then again, the media didn't plaster the offender's whole life story 24/7 for weeks on end back then either.
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Posted 2 y ago
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."This government is going to do all in its power. We’re going to reach out to get, you know, even expand our resources. But we need everybody in the system and that includes the community to be thinking the exact same way. We will get safer together,” Bowser said.
Bowser also announced a new Violent Crime Impact Team, a partnership between MPD; the FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; and the Drug Enforcement Agency, to target illegal guns."...
..."This government is going to do all in its power. We’re going to reach out to get, you know, even expand our resources. But we need everybody in the system and that includes the community to be thinking the exact same way. We will get safer together,” Bowser said.
Bowser also announced a new Violent Crime Impact Team, a partnership between MPD; the FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; and the Drug Enforcement Agency, to target illegal guns."...
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