Andover Place, 3400 block, armed robbery, 5:58 pm

Gazette, Thursday, April 22, 2010

Men posing as utility workers rob two homes in Suitland area
Police urging caution by residents

by Andrea Noble | Staff Writer

Police are urging residents to use caution after two men — posing as utility workers — forced their way into Suitland-area homes and robbed residents.

The homes, in the 1700 block of Addison Road South in Forestville and the 3400 block of Andover Place in Suitland, were targeted in April by men who approached the homes and said they were from a local utility company doing work in the neighborhood, Prince George's County police said.

In both incidents, the men requested residents sign a form so they could complete work, and once the residents opened their doors, the men pulled out weapons and robbed the residents.

Residents were robbed the morning of April 2 and the evening of April 18, respectively.

The suspects are described as black males, about 25 to 35 years old and having short hair. One of the men also had close-cut beard, police said. The men were last seen wearing white construction hard hats, reflective vests over black sweatshirts, blue jeans and brown work boots and driving a mid-sized U-Haul box truck.

Anyone with information about either of these robberies can call the Prince George's County Police Department's Robbery Unit at 301-772-4905.

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PGPD Urges Caution after Residential Robberies

Prince George’s County, Maryland… The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Robbery Unit is urging citizens to use caution after two related residential robberies in which the suspects posed as local utility workers in the Forestville and Suitland areas.

The robberies occurred on the morning of April 2, 2010 in the 1700 block of Addison Road South in Forestville and on the evening of April 18, 2010 in the 3400 block of Andover Place in Suitland. In both incidents, the suspects knocked on the door and indicated that they were from a local utility company performing work in the area and were in need of a signature on a form. When the victims opened the door, the suspects then produced weapons and robbed the occupants of the home of their valuables.

Both suspects are described as black males approximately 25-35 years old with short hair. They were last seen wearing white construction hard hats, reflective vests over black sweatshirts, blue jeans and brown work boots. One suspect had a close-cut beard. The suspects were also seen driving a mid-sized U-Haul box truck.

The Prince George’s County Police Department is offering the following safety tips:

• Keep your door locked when answering a knock
• Demand workers to show photo identification
• Call the person’s place of business to verify their identity and reason for being at your home
• Call 911 to report any suspicious persons in your neighborhood
• Check your surroundings before entering or exiting your home or vehicle
• Never let anyone you do not know into your home
• Follow all the above guidelines for any solicitor at your door

Anyone with information about the suspects is urged to call the Prince George’s County Police Department’s Robbery Unit at 301-772-4905. Callers wishing to remain anonymous may call Crime Solvers at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477) or text “PGPD plus your message” to CRIMES (274637) on your cell phone or go to www.pgpolice.org and submit a tip online.

Bonita Street, 3400 block, unspecified crime reported, 6:10 pm

Andover Place, 3400 block, animal incident

SUITLAND, Andover Pl ., 3400 block, May 9. A resident's wife called him and said a "raccoon or an opossum" had broken into their bedroom, and that she was "terrified" to go back into their house. The resident reported the situation to animal control and said he may need to rent a trap for the invading animal. An animal control officer investigated and found a gray squirrel had entered the house. The officer returned the animal to the wild.

Aberdeen Street, 3406, foreclosure sale to be held 22 Jan 2010, 10:32 am

Andover Place, 3300 block, unspecified crime reported, 5:13 pm

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, theft from vehicle, 10:04 am

Lassie Avenue, 3300 block, arrest in connection with a robbery, 9:49 pm

Andover Place, 3309, home sale reported

ANDOVER PL ., 3309-Marian L. and Louis H. Cannon to Kamil Alamin, $275,000.

Weltham Street, 3400 block, residential break-in, 6:45 pm

Aberdeen Street, 3300block, residential break-in, 6:35 pm

Weltham Street, 3400 block,robbery, 10:38 pm

Bonita Street, 3400 block, theft, 9:36 am

Bonita Street, 3406, Boxing school

Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008
Old School settles in at Hillcrest home
by Terron Hampton | Staff Writer

Buddy Harrison has proclaimed to be a man of faith, and he said his beliefs set into motion a series of events that found a new home for his boxing gym, Old School Boxing.

In late June Harrison said he took his car to Sam's Car Wash on Branch Avenue in Hillcrest Heights and decided that he would take a walk southbound. As he strolled along, his thoughts were of his boxing gym, and of finding it a new location.

"I just closed my eyes and asked God for a sign and, no lie, I looked up to my left across the street and a big 'For Lease' sign was there," Harrison said of an office space located at 3405 Bonita Street in Hillcrest Heights which sits above Riggs Seafood. "I called the number on it and the guy met me at the location 45 minutes later."

After Harrison was shown several spaces within the building, he settled on an area with windows facing toward Branch Ave. The space was previously used as seven separate offices. Old School Boxing moved in Aug. 1.

The demand for the new gym, though largely unspoken, came from several different problems with the former location on Old Alex Ferry Road in Clinton. The old gym was a converted garage in the back of a building. A number of other businesses joined Old School in the converted garages and the area was prone to problems with clutter. The location also had climate control problems.

"It would get so cold down there because we had no heat," said Harrison, who said he used a space heater in the winter that cost him more than $400 per month to run.

The former site had about 1,700 square feet of space while the new location has approximately 3,000 square feet, Harrison said.

Ultimately, the new location proved more convenient.

"So many kids couldn't get there to the other spot," said Harrison, who as a resident of the District, has persuaded a number of at-risk youth in his neighborhood to start training at his gym. "Now they can ride the Metro and get out and walk to the gym from the Branch Avenue Station."

Many of the children among Old School's 83 members would often have serious issues trying to use public transportation to travel to Clinton. A number of the young boxers' parents cannot afford cars, Harrison said.

In virtually every way, the new location is an upgrade. Although it comes with a $2,000-a-month rent, the new facility has superior climate control. Previously, a tiny room served as the bathroom. Now, one of the stalls in the men's bathroom is nearly bigger than the entire restroom at the Old Alex Ferry road location.

Included with the package was a parking lot which can hold approximately 70 cars.

The gym has many new items, including a boxing ring without a wood foundation, which provides for easier maintenance and a lower cost overall. Everything at the old facility was sold, Harrison said.

The only holdovers from the old gym include the trainers – Tim Valentine, Doug Avery, Marvin Thomas and Jerry Jones – and a few artifacts.

In its new location, Old School Boxing already has fans in the surrounding neighborhood.

"We both have always followed boxing," said Reggie Johnson, who lives several houses down the street from the gym with his wife, Cathy. "A lot of young kids can really use it. It can keep them out of trouble and off of the streets. I'm glad they're here."

"There is some interest amongst the kids in the neighborhood," Cathy Johnson added. "A lot of people have come up to me and asked about it."

Harrison said that he plans to have a boxing card in September held in the adjacent parking lot.

E-mail Terron Hampton at thampton@gazette.net.

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, vehicle stolen, 8:18 am

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, assault, 6:01 pm

Andover Place, 3400 block, theft, 2:08 pm

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block, theft, 6:20 pm

Andover Place, 3400, home sale reported

ANDOVER PL ., 3400-Wells Fargo to Sheila and Phillip T. Seldon, $260,000

Bonita Street, 3400 block, residential break-in, 6:52 pm

Lassie Avenue, 3100 block, residence was entered, 2:33 pm

Bonita Street, 3400 block, assault, 6:37 pm

Bonita Street, 3400 block, assault, 12:01 pm

Lassie Avenue, 3208, home sale reported

LASSIE AVE ., 3208-Louise L. Tyler to Dorine M. Adams, $325,000. 

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, residence was entered, 1:31 pm

Weltham Street, 3400 block, residential break-in, 5:42 pm

Bonita Street, 3400 block, residential break-in, 2:44 pm

Aberdeen Street, 3415, home sale reported

ABERDEEN ST ., 3415-Mariame L. and Moctar Toumbou to Milagro A. Gomez, $337,000.

Andover Place, 3300 block, vehicle stolen, 7:02 am

Bonita Street & Branch Avenue road work begins

DR. G'S TIPS
Washington Post, The (DC) - Sunday, July 22, 2007

Branch Avenue Work

Maryland's State Highway Administration is installing a median to restrict left turns onto Branch Avenue from 32nd Avenue and Bonita Street in Hillcrest Heights. The safety improvements should be complete by mid-fall, but, in the meantime, expect delays through this heavily traveled area. There will be single-lane closures on Branch Avenue between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. weekdays.

Bonita Street, 3408, home sale reported

BONITA ST ., 3408-Department of Housing and Urban Development to Eugene Stewart, $305,000.

Andover Place, 3401, home sale reported

ANDOVER PL ., 3401-Cedro Limited to Linda Malloy and William Barnes, $325,000.

Andover Place, 3300 block, vehicle stolen, 9:29 am

Bonita Street, 3419, home sale reported

BONITA ST ., 3419-Maurice T. Hines to Sherray and Eathel Bent, $345,000.

Andover Place, 3400 block, residential break-in, 3:14 am

Bonita Street, 3400 block, residential break-in, 6:52 pm

Aberdeen Street, 3415, home sale reported

ABERDEEN ST ., 3415-Carl N. Sampsell to Mariame L. and Moctar Toumbou, $325,000.

Scottish Avenue, 3200 block, theft, 12:52 am

Bonita Street, 3421, home sale reported

BONITA ST ., 3421 -- Tarnya R. Chappelle to Cardell Doggett and Anthony Carter, $342,500

Bonita Street, 3421, home sale reported

BONITA ST ., 3421 -- Tarnya R. Chappelle to Cardell Doggett and Anthony Carter, $342,500

Andover Place, 3400, home sale reported

ANDOVER PL ., 3400 -- Joy Crim to Charles Carrol, $320,000.

Bonita Street & Old Silver Hill Road, stolen vehicle recovered, 10:22 am

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, vehicle stolen, 9:04 am

Bonits Street, 3400 block, arrest in connection with assault, 5:13 pm

Aberdeen Street, 3409, home sale reported

ABERDEEN ST ., 3409 -- William F. and William F. McKay Jr. to Edward M. Johnson Sr., $315,000

Weltham Street, 3400 block,residential break-in, 10:25 pm

Weltham Street, 3411, home sale reported

WELTHAM ST., 3411-Elizabeth Brown to Obelinda M. and Patrick H. Goldson, $310,000.

Lassie Avenue, 3108, home sale reported

LASSIE AVE ., 3108-Rogers Howard to Oscar A. Rivera, $309,000. 

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, residential break-in, 3:29 pm

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, vehicle stolen, 8:47 pm

Andover Place, 3300 block, vehicle stolen, 8:40 am

Bonita Street, 3410, home sale reported

BONITA ST ., 3410-Randolph M. Newman to Karen E. and Jimmie Hartridge, $310,000.

Andover Place, 3300 block, residential break-in

Lassie Avenue, 3100 block, vehicle stolen, 9:25 pm

Bonita Street, 3406, home sale reported

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, vehicle stolen, 2:40 pm

Weltham Street & Scottish Avenue, stolen vehicle recovered, 9:07 am

Andover Place, 3406, home sale reported

ANDOVER PL ., 3406-Maurice T. Hines to Calvin E. Johnson, $275,000

Andover Place, 3400, home sale reported

ANDOVER PL ., 3400-Mary B. Smith to Joy Crim, $227,000

Scottish Avenue, 3100 block, theft, 11:43 am

Derelict trailer abandoned in Scottish Avenue roadway

Andover Place, 3300 block, theft from vehicle, 12:47 am

Theft from vehicle

Andover Place, 3400 block (51590052).

Theft

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block (51580639).

Weltham Street, 3400 block,robbery, 9:28 pm

Virginia Sampsell Arrington

CELEBRATIONS
Winston-Salem Journal (NC) - Sunday, May 15, 2005

Southern-Arrington

KING

Virginia Sampsell Arrington of King and Tom Vaughn Southern of Walkertown were married at 7 p.m. May 4 in King Moravian Church. The Rev. Jimmie Newsom Jr. officiated.

The bride is the daughter of Elsie Turner Sampsell of Fleischman's Village , Md., and the late Carl Nichols Sampsell. She is a retired fifth-grade teacher from Mount Olive Elementary School in King.

The groom is the son of the late Everette and Mattie V. Southern. He is pastor of Forsyth Park Baptist Church and a former mayor of Walkertown.

The bride was escorted by her son, Christopher Arrington.

Theft from vehicle

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block (51290815).

Robbery

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block (51261587).

Stolen vehicle

Lassie Avenue & Bonita Street (51070466).

Aberdeen Street, 3307, home sale reported

ABERDEEN ST ., 3307-Alfred O. Ellis to Martina Morales and David McAndrew, $149,900.

Aberdeen Street, 3408, home sale reported

ABERDEEN ST ., 3408-Theresa and Wilmer Conerly Jr. to Decarlos L. Torrence, $190,000.

Stolen vehicle

Lassie Avenue, 3100 block (50970346)

Andover Place, 3400 block, theft from vehicle, 7:07 am

Theft from vehicle

Andover Place, 3400 block (50910264).

Robbery (business)

Old Silver Hill Road, 3500 block (50820759).

Theft

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block, case 50760906

Theft from vehicle

Old Silver Hill Road & Branch Avenue

Scottish Avenue and Curtis Drive, arrest connected to a theft, 11:14 pm

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Assault with weapon

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block.

Stolen vehicle

Aberdeen Street and Scottish Avenue (50590384).

Lassie Avenue, 3100 block, robbery, 7:47 pm

Stolen vehicle

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block (50290556).

Theft from vehicle

Weltham Street, 3400 block.

Assault

Old Silver Hill Road (50200993).

Stolen vehicle

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block (50160466).

Theft from vehicle

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block (50081134).

History

Excerpts from "The Silver Hill - Morningside Neighborhood" at the website of Steve DePalma of the Harvard Medical School. Not dated, but probably written in the early 1970's. The same site has articles on Hillcrest Heights, Iverson Mall, and other nearby areas.

The old road leading out of the District of Columbia into the Silver Hill-Morningside Neighborhood led to the tiny village of Silver Hill, located a mile or so from the County's border with the nation's capital. Travelers during the Civil War period who used this road (first known as Naylor Road or Walker Road because it led to the Naylor and Walker farms) would have found a tavern at Silver Hill where the road branched. One segment trended northeast to Suitland and was known for a long time as the Silver Hill-Suitland Road (now Silver Hill Road). Another segment continued southward and branched again, toward Oxon Hill and toward Camp Springs. Sometimes this segment was called Oxon Hill Road, and later part of old Branch Avenue, but today it is part of St. Barnabas Road (Rt. 414).
. . .

Maps of the early 1900's indicate few changes in the type of settlement until transfers of land took place in the 1930's for the sale of building lots. One parcel on which lots were offered for sale was within the old village site of Silver Hill. This small subdivision was given the name of Silver Hill Park. Another small subdivision, fronting on St. Barnabas Road, was called Swanland Heights; the plat for this small cluster of 20 lots was filed in 1938 by a member of the Swann family, prominent landowners in this section of the County. Still another was Fleischman's Village; it occupied part of a large tract fronting on Old Branch Avenue (just south of Suitland Parkway) which had been purchased by the Fleischman family in the 1930's, and in the following decade approximately 70 lots were available in this subdivision. Later, in the 1960's, some of the remaining ground was utilized for apartment construction.
. . .

The past ten years have been marked by fewer increases in single-family home construction and by the introduction of apartment development, with the latter rendered feasible by the installation of sewer lines along Henson Branch, the construction of new Branch Avenue (Rt. 5), and the opening of the Capital Beltway in 1964. Multi-family development includes the large Carriage Hill apartment complex near the intersection of new Branch Avenue and Suitland Parkway, three garden apartment complexes on Silver Hill Road (east of new Branch Avenue), two apartment complexes near the Suitland Parkway interchange with the Capital Beltway, and a grouping of townhouses near the Auth Road crossing of the Beltway. Multi-family units now considerably outnumber the single-family type, accounting for 60 percent of the total number of dwelling units.

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, theft from vehicle, 2:22 pm

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, theft from vehicle

Bonita Street & Old Silver Hill Road, theft from vehicle

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block, theft from vehicle

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, robbery, 10:23 pm

Aberdeen Street, 3300 block, robbery

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block, theft

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block, theft from vehicle

Andover Place, 3400 block, theft from vehicle, 12:17 pm

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, theft from vehicle, 9:35 pm

Andover Place, 3311, home sale reported

ANDOVER PL ., 3311-James and Betty J. McKenna to Althea V. and Brian M. Carter, $142,900

Bonita Street, 3415, home sale reported

BONITA ST ., 3415-John D. and Schyrle Y. Gudger to Demisha and Daymon Williams, $175,000

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, theft from vehicle, 1:25 am

Lassie Avenue, 3100 block, residence was entered, 12:58 pm

Andover Place, 3400 block, robbery, 10:20 pm

Old Silver Hill Road, 3500 block, building was entered, 12:15 pm

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, arrest in connection with a robbery, 1:48 am

Weltham Street, 3400 block, theft from vehicle, 9:08 am

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, theft from vehicle

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, theft from vehicle, 6:19 am

Weltham Street, 3416, home sale reported

WELTHAM ST ., 3416-Lizzie N. and Willie L. Jones to Monica G. Bennett, $169,900. 

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, theft, 10:44 am

Scottish Avenue and Curtis Drive, theft from vehicle, 5:27 am

Weltham Street, 3400 block,robbery, 10:25 am

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, residence was entered, 6:50 pm

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, theft from vehicle, 8:27 am

Aberdeen Street, 3305, home sale reported

ABERDEEN ST ., 3305-Nichole Berry to Robert Staley, $134,000.

Scottish Avenue, 3200 block, theft fom vehicle, 10:07 am

Aberdeen Street, 3403, home sale reported

ABERDEEN ST ., 3403-Betty M. McMeekin to Angelina Boyrie and Mayra D. Figueroa, $159,500.

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, theft from vehicle, 5:13 pm

Weltham Street & Scottish Avenue, theft from vehicle, 10:03 am

Weltham Street & Scottish Avenue, 28 Sep 2002, 10:03 am

Andover Place, 3404, home sale reported

ANDOVER PL ., 3404-Edward and Vickey Minor to Gabrieal V. and Leonard F. Parran, $155,000.

Lassie Avenue, 3100 block, arrest in connection with a theft, 1:33 am

Bonita Street, 3421, home sale reported

BONITA ST ., 3419-Theresa and Joseph Zirccardi to Maurice T. Hines, $145,000

Andover Place, 3400, home sale reported

ANDOVER PL ., 3400-John and Jessie Leonard to Susie Evans and Lucille Brown, $157,000

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, theft from vehicle, 7:41 am

Lassie Avenue, 3215, home sale reported

LASSIE AVE ., 3215-Wilbur P. and Elva B.O. Connor to Marvin Plater, $148,500. 

Aberdeen Street, 3412, home sale reported

ABERDEEN ST ., 3412-Jeannette A. Langley trust to E. Shirley M. and Louis G. Butler, $155,000

Kevin Nigel Morse, Weltham Street, 3400 block

Washington Post - Tuesday, October 23, 2001
Author:Jamie Stockwell, Washington Post Staff Writer

Homicides have been committed in Prince George's County this year at a rate of two a week, and there already have been 13 more homicides in the county than there were all last year, according to police department statistics.

Eighty-four people have been killed in the county this year, compared with 63 in the same period last year. But there have been few arrests, according to press statements and department statistics.

Officials have announced the arrests of 12 individuals in a total of nine homicides. A department spokeswoman said a current arrest figure was not available.

The county's most recent homicide occurred Friday night, when a 35-year-old man was shot just steps from where others were pumping gas at a Temple Hills Shell service station across the street from the Naylor Road Metro station, police said.

Cpl. Diane Richardson, a spokeswoman for the department, said witnesses told the responding officers that the victim, identified as Kerwin Nigel Morse, of the 3400 block of Weltham Street in Temple Hills, was standing near a dumpster with two other men about 11 p.m. when he was shot once. Witnesses said the gunman may have fled in a car. Morse was pronounced dead at Greater Southeast Community Hospital a short time later, Richardson said.

Richardson said police have investigated seven armed robberies on the gas station property since April. None of the robberies has been of the service station, where a bulletproof partition separates customers from employees and the door facing the tiny parking lot is always locked.

The robbery suppression team of the Oxon Hill Police District, which includes the Shell station in the 3300 block of Naylor Road, has set up surveillance at the station, Richardson said, but because of the sporadic nature of robberies, there have been no arrests.

Neighbors have complained of drug dealing at the service station, and police said they are investigating those allegations.

As of yesterday, detectives had established neither a motive nor a suspect in Morse's death, but they were searching for two white cars that witnesses said sped from the parking lot immediately after the shooting. They ask that anyone with information about the incident call the department's Crime Solvers at 301-735-1111.

The owner of the Shell station said yesterday that he is concerned about the many drive-by shootings and armed robberies that have taken place on or near the premises, including one three weeks ago, when a man pumping gas was robbed of $80.

"We try to do what we can to keep that away from here, but it just happens," said Dennis Pariseau, the owner. "We just have to be alert."

The Shell station is about an eighth of a mile from the Naylor Road Metro stop and is around the block from the six-lane, heavily traveled Branch Avenue. Tucked between two seemingly deserted grassy areas and across the street from the Crab Cafe, the gas station appears to attract loiterers, said one resident who lives behind the establishment.

Jeff Lyle said his wife worked at the station until the evening he witnessed the man being robbed of $80. It happened about 7 p.m. three weeks ago, when he and his daughter walked to the station from their nearby apartment to visit his wife, he said.

"What I saw made me stop in my steps," he said. "There was a guy with a gun holding a man hostage at the pump and took him for all his cash. I talked to him after the guy fled, and he was shaken up and angry."

Lyle said he worries about families who live within steps of the gas station.

"Kids go there to buy candy, and people stop to get gas on their way to and from the Metro station," he said. "People should just really be aware, because you never know [what will] happen."

Staff researcher Bobbye Pratt contributed to this report.

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Temple Hills man found murdered
Gazette, Oct. 26, 2001
- Greg Johnson

Police have identified the Temple Hills man found shot to death Friday on Naylor Road.

Kerwin Nigel Morse, 35, of the 3400 block of Weltham Street, was found lying on the ground in the 3500 block of Naylor Road suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to a local hospital were he was pronounced dead.

Police said they have not suspects or motives in the shooting.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Prince George's County Crime Solvers unit at 301-735-1111 or 1-800-673-2777.

Andover Place, 3400 block, theft, 1:52 pm

Andover Place, 3400 block, robbery, 1:08 pm

Weltham Street, 3419, home sale reported

WELTHAM ST ., 3419-Laura D. Katsiftis to Erica J. Tolson and Ramonz A. Height, $142,900. 

Bonita Street, 3408, home sale reported

BONITA ST ., 3408-Veronica and Aurelio Crisafulli to Erica Johnson, $144,500.

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, theft, 8:35 pm

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, theft, 1:18 pm

Aberdeen Street, 3400 block, theft from vehicle, 6:08 am

Andover Place, 3400 block, residential break-in, 1:47 pm

Bonita Street, 3400 block, theft, 8:45 am

Scottish Avenue and Curtis Drive, theft, 5:23 pm

Andover Place & Old Silver Hill Road, arrest in connection with a theft, 1:14 pm

Bonita Street, 3400 block, robbery, 11:37 pm

Lassie Avenue, 3100 block, theft or break-in, 3:22 pm

Lassie Avenue, 3100 block, theft or break-in, 2:59 pm

Ralph Allister Gray, 3200 Lassie Avenue

JAMAICAN GANGS WAGE WAR OVER DRUGS, AREA POLICE SAY - SIX SLAYINGS CARRIED OUT IN LAST WEEK
Washington Post - Thursday, November 19, 1987
Author: Linda Wheeler ; Keith Harriston , Washington Post Staff Writers

Six men have been shot to death in the last week in adjoining District neighborhoods and in two disparate sections of Prince George's County in what police call a deadly drug war involving Jamaican gangs that have muscled their way into lucrative Washington area markets.
...
Prince George's County police are also connecting 9 mm weapons with posse activities. On Nov. 6, Ralph Allister Gray, 32, described by police as a Jamaican drug distributor, was shot and stabbed several times near his apartment at 3200 Lassie Ave ., Temple Hills. In his apartment police found two 9 mm semiautomatic handguns, a revolver and a empty case for an Uzi submachine gun.
...

Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, homicide

80TH SLAYING NEARS RECORD IN PR. GEORGE'S
Washington Post - Saturday, November 7, 1987

An indentified man was shot and killed late Thursday in Temple Hills, bringing the total number of homicides in Prince George's County to 80 so far this year, county police said.

The unidentified victim, a man in his early thirties, was listed by police as a "John Doe."

Police said that residents of the 3200 block of Lassie Avenue reported hearing gunshots at 11:46 p.m., looked out their windows and saw a man lying in the street.

The police homicide division is investigating the case, but a spokesman said yesterday that there are no suspects.

A new yearly milestone for the number of homicides almost certainly will be established this year in the 487-square-mile county.

A record 86 homicides were committed in the county in 1982.

According to Cpl. Bruce Gentile, a police spokesman, a majority of the slayings in the county are committed inside the Capital Beltway in the high-density population areas

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Gustavius Otto (Fuzzy) Brooks, Lassie Avenue, indicted

2 Indicted on Murder Charges
Washington Post, The (DC) - Tuesday, January 11, 1983
Author: From news services and staff reports

Two 17-year-old cousins have been indicted on charges of murdering a 19-year-old Prince George's County woman last month. Prosecutors said that Gustavius Otto (Fuzzy) Brooks, of Lassie Avenue , Suitland, and Sylvester Lee Brooks, of S Street in Southeast Washington, are accused of striking Patty L. Alston with an auto in a field behind Walker Mill Junior High School in District Heights last Dec. 8.
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Gustavous Otto (Fuzzy) Brooks, Lassie Avenue, indicted

Youths Charged in Murder of Witness, 19
Washington Post, The (DC) - Saturday, December 11, 1982
Author: Sandra R. Gregg, Washington Post Staff Writer

Police in Prince George's County and the District arrested two 17-year-old youths Thursday night and charged them as adults with first-degree murder in the death of Patty L. Alston, the 19-year-old Capitol Heights woman found dead Thursday morning behind a District Heights junior high school.

Alston was killed one day before she was to testify as a key witness in an armed robbery trial, circuit court officials in Upper Marlboro said, and the case has been dropped.

Investigators said, however, that they could not make a positive link between the trial and Alston's death.

Interviews with Alston's relatives and friends led Prince George's homicide detectives to arrest Gustavous Otto (Fuzzy) Brooks, who lives in the 3100 block of Lassie Avenue in Suitland.

Brooks is being held in the county detention center in Upper Marlboro without bond.

County police also had a warrant for Brooks' cousin, Sylvester Lee Brooks, of the 1700 block of S Street SE, and D.C. police arrested Sylvester Brooks later on Thursday.

He is being held at the D.C. jail pending extradition to Maryland.

Alston's body was found by a student early Thursday morning in a playing field in the rear of Walker Mill Junior High School.

An autopsy by the state medical examiner in Baltimore revealed that Alston died of injuries received when she was struck and run over by a car.

Alston, the mother of an infant son, lived at 915 Brooke Rd. in Capitol Heights with her mother and brother, police said.

She was a senior at Suitland High School as was Gustavous Brooks, police said.

Alston was to have been the star witness in the armed robbery trial of Eddie M. Shackleford that was to have begun yesterday morning, according to county prosecutor R. William Hale.

Hale said that Alston had been working at the Rustler's Steak House on Silver Hill Road in Suitland on the night of Aug. 8, 1981, when the restaurant's manager was robbed.

Alston was the only person who could positively identify Shackleford and another man who had come into the restaurant together the night of the robbery, Hale said.

Prosecutor Hale said that yesterday was the last day that Shackleford could be tried under the state's speedy trial law.

In the face of Alston's death and the lack of other witnesses, Hale said that the case against Shackleford was dropped. Shackleford is serving a 12-to-36 year sentence in the District on other robbery charges, he added.
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Horatio Lee Brooks, 3108 Lassie Avenue, murdered

Suitland Man Slain, Youth Charged
Washington Post, The (DC) - Friday, August 1, 1980

An 18-year-old Suitland man was found shot to death in a parking lot at Washington Highland Elementary School in Southeast Washington late Wednesday night, D.C. police reported.

Police yesterday morning charged a 17-year-old Oxon Run youth with murder in connection with the slaying.

The victim, Horatio Lee Brooks of 3108 Lassie Ave ., allegedly met with five other persons, including the suspect, about 11 p.m. Wednesday behind the school at Eighth and Yuma streets SE.After a fistfight broke out, Brooks was shot in the head and chest, police said.

Brooks was pronounced dead at D.C. General Hospital at 1 a.m. yesterday. No one else was injured in the incident.

Police said they have not determined a motive for the shooting.
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