Checkpoints Resume After Spate of Violence

Michael Birnbaum, Paul Duggan and Valerie Strauss
Washington Post
Friday, July 18, 2008

D.C. police yesterday resumed controversial checkpoints in the troubled Northeast Washington neighborhood of Trinidad after a series of overnight shootings and stabbings across the District left at least 11 people wounded and two dead, including a 13-year-old boy from out of town who was visiting relatives.

In announcing the checkpoints, police said they were searching for three suspects in the Trinidad attacks and a gold 2002 Dodge Intrepid that was allegedly used in at least one of the incidents.

The violence, on a brutally hot summer night that frayed tempers and kept people out on the street late, unfolded over an eight-hour span that ended at 3:30 yesterday morning.

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In Trinidad alone, at least six people were shot in separate incidents. Police working at one shooting scene could hear gunshots being fired elsewhere, Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said at news conference.

Late yesterday, investigators appeared to be sorting out the details of the incidents, offering differing numbers of victims at several of the shootings.

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