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Mother still searching for answers 1 year after son was gunned down leaving church service
Mother desperate for answers 1 year after son’s murder
A mother is pleading for answers nearly a year after her son was shot and killed during an attempted robbery in the District. The unsolved murder happened on South Dakota Avenue in Northeast in January of this year. The victim’s mother says her grief is never-ending. FOX 5’s Bob Barnard spoke with her.
WASHINGTON – A mother is pleading for answers nearly a year after her son was shot and killed during an attempted robbery in the District.
The unsolved murder happened on South Dakota Avenue here in Northeast in January of this year. The victim’s mother says her grief is never-ending.
“Every day moving forward is going to be a struggle for me. This does not go away. This is not something that could be easier with time. You learn to live with it. That’s all you do,” Janet Realbuto told FOX 5.
Realbuto is reflecting on the murder of her 23-year-old son Ryan, a graduate of St. Bonaventure University who was doing a year of post-graduate service in D.C. when he was shot and killed on this snowy street during an attempted robbery.
“I still have not gotten over the shock and the reality that my son was murdered walking down the street in Washington D.C. Not coming from a bar. Not a drug deal that went wrong. Not somebody that he wronged. He was coming from a church service. He did not even know the person that got out of the car and that killed him. And this act…this one split second has completely changed all of our lives,” she said.
Ryan Realbuto was from upstate New York. He came from a close-knit family and was one of three brothers. His family’s life was shattered on Jan.18, 2024 when he was killed in the 5000 block of South Dakota Avenue, Northeast. His death is one of 115 unsolved murders in D.C. this year.
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“The pain. The trauma. The horror of what goes on with the family members after somebody is so suddenly and brutally taken. No goodbyes, no nothing. Just like in a split second, he was gone. Gone,” Janet said.
Ryan had attended a church service with two friends at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Shaw. They’d taken a Metro train to Fort Totten and decided to walk the rest of the way home because it was a beautiful, snowy night.
But on the way, they were robbed at gunpoint and Ryan was shot dead in front of his two friends just after 10 p.m.
“He was the kindest, most gentle person and I just feel that whoever did this has not been caught. There’s been no justice. There has been no consequence. There’s been nothing and for my 23-year-old beautiful son. He’s in the ground,” Janet said.
Janet’s 2024 yearbook is a scrapbook of notes and letters and news articles about Ryan.
“I have not read them all,” she said.
And Janet says the police reaction to the recent murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO in New York City leaves her longing for a larger police response, a year out from her son’s murder.
“I want to talk to the mayor in D.C. I would like to talk to the higher-ups to see what’s going on. I need some assurance, something to know that this case is not just on the bottom of somebody’s desk right now. That there’s a network of people still trying to find who murdered Ryan,” she said.
FOX 5 spoke to D.C. police Tuesday. They say this is not a cold case and that it remains a very active case with leads still being pursued but there have been no arrests yet – only one home security camera video and it didn’t provide any helpful information.
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Storm Team4 Forecast: A chilly, gusty Sunday before a cool start to the week
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After a nice and warm Saturday, changes arrive for part two of the weekend.
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‘It’s a twilight zone’: Iran war casts deep shadows over IMF gathering in Washington
The most severe energy shock since the 1970s, the risk of a global recession and households everywhere stomaching a renewed surge in the cost of living – hitting the most vulnerable hardest.
In a sweltering hot Washington DC this week, the message at the International Monetary Fund meetings was chilling: things had been looking up for living standards around the world. But then came the Iran war.
“Some countries are in panic,” said the fund’s managing director, Kristalina Georgieva, addressing the finance ministers and central bank bosses in town for the IMF and World Bank spring meetings. “The sooner it [the Iran war] ends, the better for everybody.”
Such gatherings are not typically used to fight geopolitical battles. “You don’t get people shouting at one another at these things,” one senior figure remarked. But, as a record-breaking April heatwave swept the US capital, no one could ignore the mounting damage from the Iran war.
Those familiar with the mood over breakfast at a meeting of the G20’s representatives on Thursday, which included Donald Trump’s treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and the outgoing US Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell – said the atmosphere in the room was sombre amid an open exchange of serious views.
“It is such a twilight-zone meeting,” said Mohamed El-Erian, a former IMF deputy managing director who is now chief economic adviser at the Allianz insurance group. “There are several shadows hanging over it: one is the shadow that comes from concern about the global economy as a whole.
“The second is that some countries are going to be particularly hard hit, and it’s mostly countries that very few people are talking about. But the third concern is the adding of insult to injury: the fact that the US, which started a war of choice, is going to be hit, but by a lot less than elsewhere in relative terms.”
Before Thursday’s breakfast, Rachel Reeves had started her day with an early-morning jog. Joined by her counterparts from Spain, Australia and New Zealand for a run down the iconic National Mall, she posted an Instagram selfie with a not-so-subtle dig: “Friends that run together – work together.”
A day earlier, the chancellor had told a CNBC conference that she thought “friends are allowed to disagree on things” as she criticised Trump’s Iran war as a “mistake” and a “folly” that had not made the world safer.
Speaking at a venue just steps away from the White House, before a one-on-one meeting with Bessent, she said this “fair message” was needed because UK families and businesses were feeling the pain from higher energy prices triggered by the conflict.
Those close to Reeves insist her meeting remained cordial. Britain and the US have significant shared interests in AI, financial services and trade. The chancellor also said the UK government had little time for the Iranian regime.
But with the IMF having warned on Tuesday that the Iran war could risk a global recession – in which Britain would be the biggest G7 casualty – it was clear Reeves had travelled to Washington ready to pick a fight.
“I’m struck by how vocal she has been and the words she used,” said one global financier. “We know the disagreement between Bessent and [European Central Bank president] Christine Lagarde earlier in the year. But that was in private.”
At a cocktail party held at the British ambassador’s residence for hundreds of diplomats and financiers – including the Bank of England’s governor, Andrew Bailey, the chief executive of Barclays, CS Venkatakrishnan, and dozens of senior figures – this transatlantic tension, weeks before King Charles’s US state visit, was a major topic of conversation.
The other, in the balmy residence gardens, was one of its former occupants, Peter Mandelson, as revelations about the former ambassador’s appointment threatened to further rock the UK government.
Before the war, the agenda for the IMF had been about global cooperation; the adoption of AI, jobs and work to eradicate poverty. Each of those tasks had now been complicated, but not least the task of countries working together.
For many at the meetings, the focus was on forging closer global cooperation without the world’s pre-eminent superpower.
“Everybody is talking about how you hedge against American decisions,” said David Miliband, the former UK foreign secretary, who now runs the International Rescue Committee. “You can’t do without them, because they’re 25% of the global economy. But, in a lot of fora, they’ve pulled out.
“So everyone has to think, how does one structure international cooperation? The old west is not coming back. And so everyone has to figure out how to position themselves for that world.”
For those gathering in Washington, there was irony in the fact that they were meeting in the halls of institutions founded, under US leadership, to promote global cooperation after the second world war. The whole idea of the Bretton Woods institutions was to avoid the dire economic conditions and warfare of the 1930s and 1940s. Yet this year’s meeting was taking place amid these intertwining problems.
In their conversations about the best economic policy response to the shock of conflict, the economists also knew the real power to make a difference lay two blocks across town from the IMF and the World Bank – behind the security cordons and construction equipment blocking the White House from public view. “It is not clear they can do anything about it,” said El-Erian.
Still, with a booming economy driven by AI – including Anthropic’s powerful Mythos model, the topic of much conversation – most countries cannot afford to completely break off US ties.
“People want to find ways to insulate themselves from the mess. But, on the other hand, they admire the US private sector,” El-Erian said. “The best way I’ve heard it put, is: they want to go long the private sector and short the mess. But it’s almost impossible to do.”
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Rosselli opens in DC, serving classic Italian flavors from chef Carlos
Washington, D.C. (7News) — Rosselli is the newest restaurant to open in DC.
Bringing in classic Italian flavors, Chef Carlos explained how he hopes his food is a unique addition to the Italian food scene in the DMV.
Chef also demoed a signature dish with Brian and Megan.
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