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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Police: Teen Injured in Gang-Related Shooting

A 16-year-old was shot in the leg in Silver Spring.

Montgomery County police are investigating a May 10 shooting in Silver Spring that they believe may have been gang related. At approximately 8:40 p.m. that Friday, police officers responded to the 8700 block of Piney Branch Road for the report of a shooting, according to a news release from police. Multiple 911 calls reported the sound of gunshots and people running and yelling. When officers arrived on the scene, they found a 16-year-old shot in the leg. He was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.  Police determined that he had been walking with a group of people who were going to a house party in the area of Quebec Terrace. As the group was walking through the parking lot of the Sunoco …

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Arrests Made in Gang-Related Assault in Silver Spring

Police said the arrests are part of an investigation involving a street gang known as "Little R" or "La Raza."

Montgomery County police arrested three men from Aspen Hill, Rockville and Glenmont earlier this month as part of an investigation into a series of assaults and robberies in the Wheaton and Good Hope areas. According to a statement from police, the investigation involves a street gang known as "Little R" or "La Raza." On Nov. 4, Montgomery County police responded to the 1400 block of Silo Way in the Good Hope area of Silver Spring, where the victim, a 22-year-old man from Rockville, was attending a party. What had started as a verbal dispute over beer escalated into an assault, and multiple people struck the victim's head repeatedly with broken glass bottles.  He sustained serious injuries and was taken to an area hospital for treatment, …

derasti

9:04 am on Friday, November 23, 2012

It's presumptuous to assume they're not from here and racist bc the statement was probably made just based on their ethnicity, not on some statistic   more ›

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