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sponded to the statement by asking what Baucum’s theological beliefs are. Jim robb, a member of the vestry, answered that church leaders didn’t d iscuss that with Baucum. A member in the back muttered loudly, “for crying out loud, that’s at the core of the problem. Why didn’t you ask?” Asked whether Baucum’s behavior or his Catholic theology led to the staff letter, robb answered immediately: “Behavior.” mayfield, who has been serv- ing as interim rector since Bau- cum’s departure, is likely to s tay in that role “for a while,” a vestry member announced, drawing sig- nificant applause from church members. At the church meeting, mayfield spoke only briefly, offering an opening prayer. “our enemy isn’t one another. our enemy is the devil,” mayfield said. “In our disagreement, in our pain, as we seek the truth in this situation, we’re asking that you were to deliver us from every evil influ- ence.” Vestry members said they are still negotiating Baucum’s sever- ance package. [email protected]

interviewed 18 staff members and concluded in late January that the explosive letter was essential- ly accurate in its description of Baucum’s conduct, according to a statement from the vestry. Church members, not just staff, complained about similar behavior from Baucum, but the investigation didn’t deal with that in detail, vestry members said. Baucum said in his email: “There was some relational breakdown and I am sure I contributed to that. But over 12 years of ministry at Truro my leader- ship has not been characterized by anger though I have exhibited anger at times. I regret any hurt that has caused.” The former pastor, who is on paid leave through the end of the month, did not attend Sunday’s meeting. But junior warden Ken Schutz read a statement from him. “my enthusiasm for John Paul II’s theology has not been shared by all staff,” the statement said, and he “learned through the review process that my passion was sometimes experienced as anger, which I am responsible for and regret.” multiple church members re-

Truro was coming closer and closer to an end, long before any controversy broke out. It didn’t grow out of his sense that things were going wrong.... I know he felt that he was getting closer and closer in his heart and mind to the Catholic Church,” Johnston said. “His journey into roman Catholicism was not born out of vocational crisis or disagreement or any kind of discipline that was threatened for him.... It’s a very unfortunate coincidence that causes people to misunderstand and misconstrue what is true and what’s not true about what’s going on right now.” Anglicanism was born when England’s King Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church and has retained some of the organizational structures and li- turgical practices of Catholicism for centuries. But the Church of England and its global cousins have updated their doctrine to deviate from the Catholic Church on many issues, such as whether priests can marry. (Anglican priests can, and Baucum’s wife, Elizabeth, was a leader in the Truro community.) The investigator hired by Truro

the staff letter. Johnston, the retired Episcopal bishop, says he was in England meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury at the same time as Baucum, and he believes Baucum had already announced his intent to resign before he learned about the staff complaints. “He had been speaking about the fact that he knew his time at

the letter,” Dame said. Very soon after that meeting, Dame said, Baucum announced he would resign and convert to Catholicism. In an email to The Washington Post, Baucum disputed that time- line. He said that he had in- formed Anglican higher-ups of his intention to resign his ministry and convert before he knew of

cade, but to thrive,” senior war-
den Phil Dame said at the church
meeting on Sunday.
But behind closed doors, staff
members say, Baucum was any-
thing but peaceful. They de-
scribed a boss prone to bursts of
fury, who had no tolerance for
disagreement.
In November, a group of lead-
ers wrote a letter to the vestry —
which acts like a board of direc-
tors — and to their bishop, de-
scribing a work environment that
they said had terrorized them.
Baucum “had created a culture
where the staff felt they could not
question or even speak with him
about his decisions. This led to an
environment where the staff be-
came increasingly fearful,” Dame
said, describing the letter, which
the church has declined to make
public.
Dame and the rev. Tim may-
field, a pastor on staff who did not
sign the letter, met with Baucum
in November and told him about
the staff’s allegations. “Tory’s per-
ception of his relationship with
the staff was entirely different
from the perception set forth in

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Rector claims call to Catholicism, but leaders’ report raises behavioral issues

Carol guzy/the Washington Post leaders of truro anglican church, seen here in 200 6, met with congregants this week to explain the results of the investigation.

GPS data showed that freeman’s phone had been near Brown’s home at 6:49 p.m. Tues- day, authorities said. They also said the phone had been used for Internet searches for information about THC cartridges, in- cluding the type Brown was selling. [email protected] [email protected]

Magda Jean-louis and Dana hedgpeth contributed to this report.

name “Darryl,” according to charging documents. Using this information, authorities said, they identified Darryl freeman as a suspect and arrested him Wednesday. T hey said he was in a 2011 ford fusion matching the description of the car in the security videos. Investigators said that when they accessed freeman’s cell- phone, they determined it was the one used to communicate with Brown before the shooting.

way, the videos showed. Days before the killing, authorities said, Brown posted a Snap- chat message offering high-po- tency Smart Cart THC vape cartridges for sale. When investigators searched his car and home after the shooting, they said, they found no cartridges. Detectives accessed Brown’s iPhone and found a Snapchat conversation from 6:17 p.m. Tues- day with an account called “bigg.darryl,” with the screen

also said they found a loaded Smith & Wesson pistol on the driveway, b ut the gun belonged to Brown’s father and had not been fired. Video from neighbors’ security cameras showed a dark car trav- eling on Warehouse Landing road at about 6:40 p.m. Tuesday and backing into the Brown family’s driveway, investigators said. At 6:50 p.m., after the sounds of two gunshots, the vehicle sped away toward Indian Head High-

Brown with the intention of rob- bing him, the charging documents say. Q awwee said that after the shooting, the suspects drove off with 10 THC cartridges worth about $300, according to authorities. A neighbor heard two gunshots and found Brown on the driveway with wounds to his chest and a leg, according to detectives. Authorities said they found two spent 9mm shells on the ground near Brown. They

driveway of Brown’s home in the
3100 block of Warehouse Land-
ing road in the Bryans road
area, the sheriff’s office said. Ac-
cording to charging papers filed
in court, investigators learned
that Brown had recently been
selling THC vape cartridges.
After his arrest, Qawwee ac-
knowledged being involved in
the killing, telling detectives that
he and others arranged to meet

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Three charged in killing of Md. teen who officials said was selling THC vape cartridges

his son about going to Navy when he was in middle school, The Washington Post r eported in 2014. forney developed into a stand- out offensive tackle at George- town Prep, earning first-team all- state honors from the Associated Press his senior year, and had choices when it came time to make his college decision. He stuck with Navy for the family atmosphere, the proximity to his family’s home and because Navy was the f irst offer forney received. Coach Ken Niumatalolo’s staff of- fered forney a spot o n the team o n his birthday. At Navy, forney showed off

noteworthy athleticism for a 6- foot-3, 305 -pound offensive line- man. He played in every game of his sophomore and j unior seasons and started every game his senior year, helping lead a rejuvenation of Navy’s offensive line that led to one of the mids’ most productive seasons of offense in years. forney earned first-team all-American Athletic Conference honors in 2019. “Words cannot express our pain and sorrow,” Niumatalolo said in a statement. “first and foremost, our deepest condolences to the forney family. The Navy football Brotherhood is not a team, we are a family. We are devastated to have lost one of our brothers. We all loved — and will always love — David. We pray for strength during this m ost difficult time.” In December, at the annual Ar- my-Navy game, forney led his team out of the tunnel carrying the American flag. Navy went on to beat Army for the first time in four years, in no small part because of forney and h is linemates. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

forney is survived by his par- ents, E rika and rick, and his three siblings, Chris, rebekah and Erik, according to information provid- ed by the Naval Academy. In an earlier statement, officials said students, faculty and staff on the campus were notified of forney’s death friday and that counseling services were being of- fered. News of the death spread quickly through campus, and friends and teammates began posting tributes on social media. many took to Twitter to share prayers and condolences for the family and images of the number 68, forney’s number on the team. “Words cannot express this feeling but I know God has a plan. I’ll miss you more than you know. You were always my voice of reason and I’m going to make you proud,” wrote Diego fagot, a sophomore midshipman and Navy linebacker. michael Cabrera, a junior on the team wrote, “I’m sick to my stomach right now. I’m still in disbelief... my heart goes out to the family and friends struggling like my brothers and me. I’m thankful I was given a chance to know you and be your teammate. I know you’ll be watching over us. Love you g.” “Simply distraught and heart- broken,” wrote Jeremy Griffis, a fellow senior a nd teammate. The news of forney’s death hit a student b ody that was still reeling from the death of Duke Carrillo, 21, of flower mound, Te x., who collapsed feb. 9 during a portion of the Navy’s semiannual physical readiness test. Carrillo was a quantitative eco- nomics major and a member of the academy’s flight training squadron. His brothers, Dylan and Jake, are both Naval Academy midshipmen. Buck called Carril- lo’s death a “sudden and tragic loss.” The cause of Carrillo’s death has not been determined. Attending the Naval Academy was always in the back of forney’s mind: His father, a former minor league pitcher in the Baltimore orioles’ farm system who grew up in Annapolis, started talking to

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Md. midshipman,

football team leader dies

“I know you’ll be

watching over us.” Michael Cabrera, a junior and David Forney’s football teammate

hat.” Smith noted that there was a reason some African American women were so good at making clothes back then. “When I was living in Virginia, we couldn’t go and try clothes on,” she said, add- ing that Southern department stores barred black people from doing so. “When I came i nto D.C., I was so amazed that you could go into the store and actually try things on." “Even hats, they’d say, ‘oh no, you don’t want your greasy hair in there,’ or whatever, so we made our own. We were very creative people.” At the end, the quilt squares of the participants were posted to- gether on a w all, forming a vibrant collage, and the women lingered to share t heir own f amilies’ migration stories. onakoya’s mother and father met in the District after moving from the South, and she recalled the strangeness of going down South to visit relatives in the Jim Crow era. “It was very black and white,” she said. “Blacks eat here, whites eat here, and we had to go to the back of the bus.” one day, she went to the dry goods store with her grandfather in High Point, N.C. It was 1955 or 195 6, around the time another black child from the North, Em- mett Till, was murdered after a visit to a grocery store while visit- ing relatives in the South. “When we went to pay for an item, I put the money in the hand of the proprietor and he called to my grandfather — ‘To m, you better teach this chap some man- ners,’ ” onakoya said. “I didn’t know that I was supposed to put the money on the counter, not in his white hand. my grandfather apologized to this young white man, and it seems like we ran down that road. Within 24 hours we were shipped back here.” That memory, and other stories she knew about the South, had colored her interpretation of the “migration Series.” “To me, I felt like they were running,” she said of the people Lawrence depicted. “To say it was opportunity, it wasn’t so much opportunity; they were trying not to die.” [email protected]

have a great memory to be able to look at art and talk about art and how i t makes y ou f eel,” s he s aid. “It brings them a sense of self -esteem because they’re making something and doing something that they’re proud of.” Earlier in the week, Brock held up a card depicting a quilt with strong contrast between blue and orange, two complementary col- ors, for the women in Congress Heights. “We’re not using a ruler; we’re like the women of Gee’s Bend — we’re getting intimate with it.” As they sipped lemonade and fruit punch, the talk got intimate too. Smith talked about being a kid and bringing the wrong kind of napkins (sanitary rather than dinner) to the grown-ups and getting “whupped” for it. Everyone laughed, and she beamed. “Now did you see what just happened? It’s not just the art stuff, it’s the conversation.”

As o nakoya s nipped purple and red paper into tiny geometric shapes, she thought about the quilts she had at home and the provenance of each. “one piece is when my child was born. one piece is w hen my sister’s c hild w as born. And even though they’ve had their better days, my goal is to pass them down.” She could never imagine getting rid of the quilts, no matter how tattered they become: “They are where I am from, where my mother came from, and I can’t see erasing all that history because these things were used and the threads are coming apart.” Evelyn Brown, 8 8, a retired nursing assistant, was joined by her daughter and caregiver, Pau- lette Thompson, 63. Brown recalled the skills of women in the old days. “my mother used to make my clothes, years ago,” she said. “She would knit and crochet my clothes. I’ll never forget, I was about 5 and she knitted me a Shirley Te mple suit and a sailor

art,” s he s aid. “Somebody w ho may not have used words, something will spark their memory and they’ll just start singing.” The National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution also have programs connecting their museums with people who have dementia. This year, one artwork featured burlap t hat a group from AfTA h ad covered with drawings based on their viewing of three different ex- hibitions; the work will be dis- played at t he museum’s g ala i n may. The annual exhibit is hugely popular with members of Iona, said the program’s executive director, Sally White. “The pride that people take in the art being there and the fact that their friends a nd f amily come t o see it i s wonderful,” s he said. At Iona on friday, Jonte and Avis Brock, special programs edu- cator for the Phillips, led a discus- sion with two dozen participants

and several staff members and volunteers, focusing on a 1943 Horace Pippin painting of women sitting around a table playing dominoes. “How many have ever played dominoes?” Brock asked the group. About half raised their hand. Then they started riffing off the word: “Domino’s Pizza,” one man said. “fats Domino. Also t here w as a song called ‘falling Like Domi- noes.’ ” mary Ellen Carew, an artist, editor and poet who lives in the District, noted that the black area in the middle of the p ainting could be a window, a painting or a cur- tain over a window. And she guessed it was somewhere cold. Afterward, the group sat around the table and assembled strips of fabric into collages. Sharon o’Connor, director of Iona’s Wellness and Arts Center, said the programs often result in people socializing more with each other. “You really don’t have to

mer we were sent home, we stayed
there i n the South, and t hen when
school started, we came back.”
mm-hmm, the other women
murmured, they remembered
that too.
“There was the aunties, the
grandfather, the cousins, cooking
and going to church and praying,
all the culture of who you are,”
onakoya said. “mama’s been gone
since ’ 95, but I still h ave her q uilts.”
The women are members o f the
Congress Heights Senior Wellness
Center, which meets each month
for CreativiTEA, part of the Phil-
lips Collection’s Creative Aging
program. The group alternates be-
tween its center, the museum’s
Phillips@THEArC location in
Congress Heights, and the Phil-
lips’s Dupont Circle facility.
At each meeting, they discuss
and make art in response to works
in its permanent collection. They
had studied Jacob Lawrence’s 1941
“migration Series,” which depicts
African Americans leaving the
South for the North in hopes of
finding a better life; now they were
learning about the quilts of Gee’s
Bend, hand-sewn pieces created by
women in the isolated African
American hamlet of Gee’s Bend, Ala.
The Creative Aging program
started in 2011 as a partnership
with Iona Senior Services, a non-
profit in Northwest Washington.
Every month, people with memo-
ry loss from Iona either visit the
Phillips Collection or are visited
by museum staff who bring repro-
ductions of art and materials for
participants to make their own
pieces. The idea sprang from a
similar program, meet me At
momA, at the museum of modern
Art in New York.
In 2018, the Phillips added two
more organizations as partners in
the program — Arts for the Aging
(AfTA) and the Congress Heights
group — bringing the number of
participants to around 200 a year.
Some have memory loss; oth-
ers, such as the Congress Heights
group, do not. for those who do,
interacting with art can have pro-
found effects, said Donna Jonte,
manager of art and wellness and
family programs at the Phillips.
“We can see it in a facial expres-
sion or a smile on the face or a
spontaneous reaction to a work of

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Art sparks memories, creates community for seniors

“You really don’t have to have a great memory to

be able to look at art and talk about art.” Donna Jonte, manager of art and wellness and family programs at the Phillips Collection

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