D.C. police late Thursday announced the arrest of two teenage girls in connection with the fatal beating of an elderly disabled man as he took an evening walk in Northwest Washington in October.
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Washington Commanders WR Terry McLaurin Ramping Up D.C. Community Impact Efforts
Terry McLaurin has accomplished a lot of things since joining the Washington Commanders via the 2019 NFL Draft.
One of the things he’s most proud of, however, goes beyond what he’s done for the Commanders and extends into his work in and around the Washington D.C. community.
On Friday, the Terry McLaurin Foundation took its next step towards being a more long-term partner of the community and unveiled Terry’s Locker, stocked by UnitedHealthcare, at McKinley Middle School in Washington D.C.
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“I wanted to start doing initiatives that could kind of be long-lasting and affect kids on a daily basis…And I believe this, Terry’s Locker, is really going to provide an opportunity for them…”
– Terry McLaurin, Washington Commanders WR
“We are extremely thankful for this opportunity,” Assistant Principal Rasheda Webster said during the unveiling of the project. “We’re looking forward to seeing this initiative live at McKinley. We’re also looking forward to seeing it grow throughout our region.”
In a joint media release from McLaurin’s foundation and UnitedHealthcare the two organizations said, “This ceremony marks the beginning of a series of Terry’s Locker donations to public schools
across the Mid-Atlantic region. Terry McLaurin and UnitedHealthcare are committed to making a
lasting impact on the communities we serve by addressing the basic needs of students and
supporting their educational journey.”
McLaurin himself talked about the desire to impact the community in more lasting ways than his other events have, which are commonly put together as one-time benefits rather than lasting initiatives.
“I wanted to start doing initiatives that could kind of be long-lasting and affect kids on a daily basis,” McLaurin said. “And I believe this, Terry’s Locker, is really going to provide an opportunity for them to have access and resources to clean clothes, clean toiletries, and just the basic hygienic necessities that they need so they can just come to school confident, they can be themselves, and they don’t have to worry about coming to school without having the things that they need just to be able to come and learn.”
In partnering with McLaurin, UnitedHealthcare is not only helping by providing items for the locker but is also already planning more locations as the project intends to impact more than just one school and as many kids who may need the assistance necessary to facilitate a confident and healthy learning environment.
“Access to personal hygiene products and cleanliness is a very important part of a kid’s life. 80% of what happens from a health perspective happens outside of the doctor’s office,” UnitedHealth vice president of sales and account management Anton de Roo said during the ceremony. “There’s initiatives like this that we can offer them access to products and resources that can help kids to just live their fullest life, both socially and academically…We want to recognize what Terry does for the community in D.C. and around the country providing resources like we do today. And it’s a really good reflection of him as a professional sportsman, as a member of our community that we get this kind of support.”
As Washington gets ready to put its football team back on the field for training camp next Wednesday McLaurin says he feels good and likes the direction the team is heading in. As focused on football as he is, however, he hasn’t lost sight of his giving nature and drive to help others. Something he says has been present in him long before his NFL days, and a part of him that continues to keep McLaurin atop the list of fan favorites in the DMV.
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Global Microsoft outage live updates: DC-area hospitals, flights and courts affected
What to Know
- Microsoft products worldwide went offline overnight Friday due after an issue with an update to cybersecurity program CrowdStrike.
- Flights were grounded, health systems’ technology went offline and Metro’s website went down, causing ripply effects for hours after a fix was deployed.
- The outage is not connected to a security incident or cyberattack, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said.
A widespread Microsoft outage linked to a cybersecurity software disrupted business-as-usual worldwide Friday morning. In the Washington, D.C., area, dozens of flights were delayed, Metro’s website went offline and News4 Today was stalled.
The outage is linked to a recent update from the company CrowdStrike, which said it deployed a fix for the issue. CEO George Kurtz said the outages were not from a security incident or cyberattack.
Crowdstrike’s Falcon platform is like a defense system for IT infrastructure. The cloud-based software will work to automatically stop malicious code or other issues immediately instead of simply notifying a company to address the issue. Here’s an explainer on how Crowdstrike works.
Systems are coming back online, but the overnight disruption is causing ripple effects.
Two more teenagers have been arrested and charged in the October 2023 death of a 64-year-old man in Northwest D.C.
Two more teenagers have been arrested and charged in the October 2023 death of a 64-year-old man in Northwest D.C.
D.C. police said in a Thursday news release that two girls — ages 13 and 15 — have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Reggie Brown. In March, two 13-year-old girls and a 12-year-old girl were also charged with second-degree murder in the case.
Shortly before 1 a.m. on Oct. 17, police found Brown unresponsive with blunt force trauma to the head in the 6200 block of Georgia Avenue in Northwest and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The 12-year-old charged in Brown’s death was shot and wounded inside her Northwest D.C. home in March.
Police said the girls used their hands and feet to assault Brown.
His death is still under investigation and police ask those with information to call them at 202-727-9099. There will be a reward of up to $25,000.
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Both teens were charged as juveniles and were not identified by the police in a news release. The Washington Post generally does not identify suspects in criminal cases who are charged as juveniles.
The two girls are expected to appear in D.C. Superior Court on Friday for their initial hearing.
Prosecutors say the two teens were among a group of girls who approached Brown in the 6200 block of Georgia Avenue NW early Oct. 17, knocked him to the ground and beat and kicked him, slamming his head into the concrete pavement. D.C. police detectives testified at the March hearings that Brown and his attackers did not know one another.
In March, police charged two 13-year-olds girls and a 12-year-old girl in connection with the beating. The 12-year-old has since turned 13. All three girls — despite efforts by their attorneys at recent hearings in D.C. Superior Court to have them released home to the custody of their parents — have been held in detention by the city’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services as they await trial.
After their initial hearing, prosecutors upgraded the charges for the three teens to first-degree murder. A trial for the three is scheduled to begin in August.
As the two newly charged teen suspects appear at their initial hearing Friday, down the hall in the same courthouse, the three other teens are scheduled to appear in a pretrial hearing.
At their initial hearings in March, prosecutors played a graphic, minute-long cellphone video clip that showed a group of five girls chasing Brown into a Northwest alley. As Brown tried to climb up a chain link fence, the girls pulled him down and stomped his head into the pavement. They pulled his pants down around his ankles, removed his belt and beat him with it. Then, as Brown lay on the ground in a pool of blood, the girls became jubilant, laughing and chatting. “He’s leaking,” one of the girls cheered, referring to Brown’s bleeding from his head.
The cellphone video, prosecutors say, was recorded by one of the girls during the attack.
Brown was diagnosed with schizophrenia, one of his sisters said in March at the time of the three initial arrests. Brown, his family said, had lost six fingers to amputation because of lupus, a disease of the immune system. He also experienced chronic blackouts, the sister said. Once, after losing consciousness, he collapsed to the pavement and injured his skull so badly that a surgeon had to put a metal plate in his head.
In recent years, Brown had been diagnosed with cancer, his family said. Brown’s family said he often took long walks at night after hours of chemotherapy. The late-evening walks, his family said, helped him to sleep through the night.
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