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marylandPedestrian killed on
Beltway’s inner loopA pedestrian was struck and
killed early monday, state police
said.
The pedestrian was struck
about 12:30 a.m. by a GmC Yukon
on the Capital Beltway’s inner
loop near Allentown road and
the Joint Base Andrews exit,
according to maryland State
Police.
Authorities said a woman was
“standing in the second lane”
from the left side of the roadway.
It was not immediately known
whether she was walking along
the road or had gotten out of a
vehicle that had stopped.
The driver stayed at the scene,
and the cause of the crash was
under investigation. Police did
not immediately release the
woman’s name. They said no
charges had been filed against
the driver.
— Dana HedgpethtHe districtWoman dies after
apartment fire in SEA woman died of injuries she
suffered in a monday morning
fire that burned her apartment in
Southeast Washington, according
to the D.C. fire department.
The fire was reported shortly
before 7:15 a.m. in the 3100 block
of Buena Vista Te rrace SE.
Douglas Buchanan, a D.C. fire
spokesman, said firefighters
found the woman in her second-
floor apartment. She was the lone
occupant.
fire officials said on Twitter
that the woman died shortly after
arriving at a hospital. Her name
had not yet been made public
because relatives had not been
notified.
Buchanan said the fire was
quickly extinguished and
investigators were working to
determine a cause. No other
injuries were reported.
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40 years a fter
completing boot
camp, Matilda
Carroll will
sometimes f ind
herself falling into
step a nd singing a
cadence when she
walks alongside
someone.
“I loved my e xperience in t he
military,” C arroll s aid.
It’s w hat came l ater that w as so
hard.
Carroll j oined t he U. S. Army in
1981, r ight out of high school. She
served for four years as a radio
telephone t eletype o perator, first
at a base in West G ermany, w here
she c ould look across t he border
into Czechoslovakia, t hen a t
Aberdeen Proving Ground.
The work was hard —
especially basic t raining at fort
Gordon, Ga. — but it was
rewarding. Carroll l earned to fire
an m-16, t o throw a hand grenade,
to send messages in morse c ode,
to make a bed so perfectly t hat a
quarter would bounce atop it.
Carroll’s d ecline, when it came,
was g radual. After the Army, s he
moved to Southern maryland,
where s he’d g rown up. She was in
a car crash. She developed
depression. She turned t o crack
cocaine, which w as just starting
to tear through her
neighborhood. She was a rrested
and i ncarcerated.
Carroll e ventually moved in
with her mother, taking c are of
her f or the last three years of her
life. A fter her mother died, s he
became homeless. I t was w hile
sitting in a friend’s h otel r oom in
Waldorf that Carroll b egan her
journey back. She saw an ad on
TV f or the Veterans C risis L ine.
She called the n umber a nd s et i n
motion her rehabilitation.
It’s a journey she d escribed t o
me recently at fendall Heights, a n
apartment building i n Southeast
Washington o perated by So
others might Eat, a partner in
The Washington Post Helping
Hand f undraising d rive.
After calling the hotline
number, C arroll entered an
addiction treatment program.
She then found a place t o live
through a temporary housing
program run by the U.S. Veterans
Initiative. In January 2 016, she
moved into So others might Eat’s
fendall Heights building, which
is reserved for veterans and their
families.
“It had b een so long since I had
my o wn place, since I had my o wn
keys,” C arroll, 56, said. “It was just
an awesome feeling.”
fendall Heights opened i n
April 2013. Its 29 a partments are
subsidized using vouchers from a
joint program of the departments
of Housing and Urban
Development a nd Veterans
Affairs, administered b y the D.C.
Housing Authority. residents p ay
30 percent of their income as
rent.
But fendall Heights is more
than a place to live. r esidents
meet regularly w ith their SomE
case managers, who h elp them
overcome challenges that remain.
SomE helped Carroll b ecomecertified as a medical
administrative assistant and
arranged an externship at
Providence Hospital, where s he i s
now e mployed.
“SomE h as been with me
through t he whole process,”
Carroll s aid.
Moneika Small i s the p rogram
manager a t fendall Heights. I
asked her how veterans
compared w ith o ther clients she’s
worked with.
“They are very, v ery, v ery
articulate,” S mall said, then
added with a laugh: “They
definitely k now w hat they w ant.
They c an tell you how it should be
done. T hey like things e xtremely
neat and s ecure.”
You can take someone o ut of
the m ilitary, b ut y ou c an’t t ake the
military out o f them.
“What it comes down to is, we
all served t he same purpose,”
Carroll s aid. “We all t ook an oath
to protect the United States a nd
its a llies.”
Carroll’s g oals now include
repairing her c redit — SomE
offers financial l iteracy c lasses —
and h opefully m oving t o a
new apartment.fendall Heights is w hat’s
known as p ermanent s upportive
housing, which m eans unlike
transitional p rograms, t here’s no
clock t icking for t he residents.
They d on’t h ave to leave by a
ce rtain time. Carroll l ikes it there
but w ants to be closer to where
she w orships: House of Prayer
Church of God No. 2 in
Brandywine, m d.
“When I say my prayers, I ask
God to bless all those who helped
me,” Carroll s aid.
It’s a list that includes So
others might Eat, her c hurch, her
family (they helped furnish her
apartment), the v eterans groups
that have given h er support and
the e mployer who has w elcomed
her.
What about y ou, I asked. It w as
matilda C arroll who after y ears of
addiction made that p hone call,
who made t he decision to get
clean, w ho accepted h elp and
then worked t o beat drugs and get
a job. Do you e ver thank yourself,
soldier?
“You know w hat?” C arroll s aid
after a pause. “To be honest, no,
I’ve n ever r eally thanked myself.
maybe it’s s omething I should do.”You can help
It’s e stimated t hat more than 3 00
homeless v eterans live in t he
District. With i ts fendall Heights
apartment building, SomE i s
helping alleviate t hat shortfall.
You can help SomE. The Post’s
annual Helping Hand
fundraising campaign has just
begun. To m ake an o nline
contribution v isit
posthelpinghand.com and click
“Donate.” To give to SomE the
old-fashioned way, m ake a check
payable to “So o thers might Eat”
and s end it to SomE, Attn:
Helping Hand, 71 o St. NW,
Washington, D.C. 20001.
[email protected]
Twitter: @johnkelly For previous columns, visit
washingtonpost.com/johnkelly.For veterans in need, SOME offers home and support
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Matilda Carroll, a U.S. army veteran who struggled with addiction
and homelessness, lives in fendall Heights, a home for veterans.not a first Amendment viola-
tion, I don’t know what is.”
Hiestand said it’s also a mis-
take for the university to say that
no crime occurred because the
papers are free.
“We always remind universi-
ties and police that j ust because a
paper is distributed for free
doesn’t mean they are free,” he
said. “They are paid f or b y adver-
tisers and by student activity
fees. It’s like a subscription.
There is a value to these papers.
They are not free.”
Lepore said he and his staff
will submit freedom of Informa-
tion Act requests to access the
video showing the papers being
removed and to find out the
name of the employee who re-
moved them.
“We didn’t want it to come to
this, b ut we’re excited to do m ore
digging and investigative report-
ing,” Lepore s aid. “radford keeps
pushing back, but we’re not stop-
ping, either.”
[email protected]Post t hat when he saw the photo-
graph, he “thought it was sweet
— just a really nice photo of
Tibbetts and his daughter.”
He s aid he and h is staff are not
satisfied with the university’s re-
port on the missing papers and
will continue pressing to find o ut
who was responsible and wheth-
er that person was acting at the
direction of anyone in the ad-
ministration.
“It’s definitely frustrating,”
Lepore said. “I’m just trying to
make a newspaper. I don’t want
to keep making the news section
about our newspaper, but this is
an important story, and it’s a
first Amendment issue.”
mike Hiestand, senior legal
counsel with the Student Press
Law Center, agrees that the stu-
dents have a legitimate claim
against the school.
“This is a government employ-
ee, and he trashed the newspa-
pers because he didn’t want peo-
ple to read them for whatever
reason,” Hiestand said. “If that’smaker, vice president for univer-
sity relations — that the photo
was “not the best choice” and
that the stories could “trigger”
people.
In october, Lepore told Theby Tibbetts’s widow.
Lepore said he was told at the
Sept. 20 meeting by administra-
tors — including Susan Trageser,
radford’s vice president for stu-
dent affairs, and Ashley Schu-der of the newspapers.
The decision to not name the
employee isn’t sitting well with
Lepore and t he paper’s staff of 20
student journalists.
“We’re pretty angry,” Lepore
said in an interview monday. “ It’s
not the best course of action on
the university’s side. I just want
to know the name, and that’s it.
What’s the saying, ‘The coverup
is worse than the crime’?”
Because the person who re-
moved the papers has not been
named, it is unknown why they
were taken.
But a dministrators made clear
to Lepore on Sept. 20 that they
were concerned with a story and
photo that ran on the front page
of the issue. The story, about
Steve Tibbetts, a professor who
died unexpectedly just weeks
into his new job a t the university,
included a photo of Tibbetts and
his high-school-age daughter
standing under a street sign that
said “ Tibbetts St. Dead E nd.” The
photo was provided to the paperton Post.
Scaggs said that the employee
has b een disciplined a nd that “ no
additional information will be
provided regarding this matter
as it is a personnel issue.”
more than 800 copies of the
Sept. 18 edition were removed
from 22 distribution boxes on
campus just hours after being
delivered. In response to addi-
tional questions from The Post,
Scaggs said the employee who
took the papers is n ot a professor
or instructor at radford, nor a
part of the university’s adminis-
tration. The employee, she said,
“disclosed to acting alone and
not under the direction of any
other individuals.”
According to Scaggs, the em-
ployee admitted to removing pa-
pers from only the four distribu-
tion boxes mentioned in the uni-
versity police report. There has
been no information released
about who removed the remain-
radford from B1
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dylan Lepore, editor in chief of the Tartan, the student newspaper
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