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The 1991 Washington, D.C., riot, sometimes referred to as the Mount Pleasant riot or Mount Pleasant Disturbance, [1] occurred in May 1991, when rioting broke out in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in response to an African-American female police officer having shot a Salvadoran man in the chest following a Cinco de Mayo celebration.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: 26 years ago today, tragedy at Luigi's; August 6, 1993: 'Thank God,' a policeman is remembered, 'he took him down' Deadly shootings bring back memories of Aug. 6, 1993, at Luigi's; Fayetteville's infamous crimes, Part 2: Local cases that have garnered worldwide attention "Heavily armed man kills 4, injures 7 in restaurant ...
Ingleside is a historic house in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The house was designed by architect Thomas U. Walter and completed around 1850. From 1896 to 1904, it was owned by Thomas C. Noyes, an editor, part-owner, and publisher of the Washington Evening Star and owner of the Washington Senators baseball team.
Luigi Mangione, accused UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter, came from a prominent real estate family and attended a $37,000-a-year private high school Sasha Rogelberg Updated December 11, 2024 at 8:39 AM
In 1727, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, then governor of the Province of Maryland, awarded a land grant for present-day Mount Pleasant to James Holmead. This estate, later named "Pleasant Plains", included the territory of present-day neighborhoods of Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, Meridian Hill, and Pleasant Plains (which only covers a portion of the original estate of the same name).
Firefighters in Washington, D.C., on Friday battled a three-alarm fire that started in a three-story former firehouse under renovation near the U.S. Capitol. DC Fire and EMS said one firefighter ...
On the evening of October 31, 1989, Nicky Scarfo Jr. was dining at an Italian restaurant in Philadelphia when a man wearing a Batman mask and holding a plastic Halloween candy bag entered the restaurant and approached Scarfo's table. The man pulled a MAC-10 machine pistol from the bag and fired at Scarfo. He was struck eight times in the neck ...
In Luigi Mangione's Maryland hometown, questions swirl about an unlikely murder suspect Chris Kenning, N'dea Yancey-Bragg and Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY Updated December 11, 2024 at 8:16 AM