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

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

Theft

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block (51580639).

Theft from vehicle

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block (51290815).

Robbery

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block (51261587).

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

Assault with weapon

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block.

Stolen vehicle

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block (50290556).

Assault

Old Silver Hill Road (50200993).

Stolen vehicle

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block (50160466).

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).
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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.
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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.

Bonita Street & Old Silver Hill Road, theft from vehicle

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block, theft from vehicle

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block, theft

Old Silver Hill Road, 3600 block, theft from vehicle

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

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.
Edition: Final Edition
Section: Metro
Page: B2
Index Terms: 8001040626; ALSTON
Record Number: 8001040626
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