RSS FeedYesterday’s "Incident" At Gallery Place – The Real Scoop!
Many people were oblivious to the event (including myself), but yesterday at about 5:30am, police were taping off the area in front of the CVS at 7th & H St NW as well as portions of the escalators under the Gallery Place metro canopy.
Only four news outlets reported the incident, NBC4, W*USA9, WJLA, and DCist.com. NBC4 had the most descriptive article (with a video clip): “D.C. police said a stabbing victim was found in Chinatown near the corner of Seventh and H Streets, Northwest Wednesday morning.“
Rather than taking part in the hysteria, and after being burned a couple of times by inaccurate info, we decided to hold off a day and get the real scoop – giving MPD detectives a chance to compile their reports.
Here is what really happened – straight from MPD-1D Commander Groomes’ keyboard:
- “At approximately 0248 hours a male stated that he was trying buy some cellphones in the park at 6th and K [sic, I St] ST NW – and he fought the guy – he didn’t realize he was stabbed at the time thus he reported he used some drugs and later didn’t feel well and went into the metro station and asked for the fireboard around 0530 hours – it was then revealed that he was not punched but stabbed – – he does know his attacker and this is not a random attack -fyi“
Nat’l Capital BBQ Battle This Weekend
Like yummy, greasy, BBQ? Then, this weekend’s Safeway National Capital Barbecue Battle is for you. Both Saturday (11a to 9p) and Sunday (11a to 7:30 p) will see Penn Ave from 9th St to 14th St closed for a tasty time. The BBQ challenge (pork, beef or chicken) is on Saturday and the National Pork BBQ Championship (pork only) is on Sunday and there’s money at stake. Lots of live music is also lined up. So get your chicken, beef or pork on and don’t forget to schedule time with your trainer the following week to work it all off. $10 for adults, $5 for kids.
Update: Bar Louie/Proof
We did a quick walk by of Bar Louie and Proof and they both are now “unwrapped” (the brown paper covering the glass walls has been removed) but still unopen. The good news is that they both have furniture in place, however, Bar Louie looks closer to opening.
Penn Quarter Building Permit Update (Legal Sea Foods Renovation/Madame Tussauds Work)
6/12/07
710 7TH ST NW (Legal Sea Foods, we think)
Alteration and Repair
$200,000.00
minor alterations interior only to existing resyurant [sic] alteration include new flr.,wall,ceiling finishes,interior partitions,relocate salad bar & hot
douglas sevelopment [sic] corp
6/15/07
1025 F ST NW (Madame Tussauds Museum)
ALTERATION AND REPAIR
$2,366,383.00
RENOVATION TO EXISTING GROUND AND BASEMENT LEVEL SPACE FOR MADAME TUSSAUDS MUSEUM AS PER THE ATTACHED
JAMALS CAYRE WOODIES LLC