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THE DISTRICTMaryland m an
is found dead in SEA 23-year-old Prince George’s
County man was found dead of
gunshot wounds Sunday in
Southeast Washington, D.C.
police said.
Keith Rawlings, of Glenarden,
was found in a car in the 4200
block of S eventh Street SE after
police responded to the area
about 2:50 a.m. He was declared
dead at the scene.
— Patricia SullivanMARYLAND3 charged in triple
shooting over weekendThree people have been
arrested after a triple shooting in
Germantown on Saturday night,
Montgomery County police said.
A 19-year-old woman was
critically wounded in the
shooting in the area of Gunners
Branch Park on Cinnamon Drive,
police said Sunday. Two 19-year-
old men were also wounded and
were in stable condition, police
said.
Police identified the suspects
as Jaheim Ronnell Hicks, 17, of
Upper Darby, Pa.; Sequan
Markell Ashton, 19, of
Germantown; and Henry
Emanuel Tamba, 20, of
Germantown. Hicks has been
charged as an adult, police said.
The suspects and the victims
all attended a cookout Saturday
night, and police said they were
told the shooting stemmed from
an ongoing dispute.
The gunfire was reported
sometime after 8 p.m. and about
20 minutes later, authorities
were told of three people
running through a wooded area
on Allspice Drive, police said.
The suspects were arrested in
that area, police said.
P olice said Hicks was charged
with three counts of attempted
second-degree murder. They said
Ashton and Tamba were charged
with being an accessory after the
fact to first-degree assault.
— Clarence Williams
and Martin WeilVIRGINIASuspect sought in
Annandale homicideFairfax County police are
searching for a 20-year-old man
considered “armed and
dangerous” in connection with a
Friday h omicide in Annandale,
authorities said Monday.
Abel Alexander Castro Juarez
of Annandale has been charged
with second-degree murder and
use of a firearm in the
commission of a felony in the
fatal shooting of Jose Alexander
Villa Lobo Guevara, 20, of
Annandale a t a n apartment
complex in the 4100 block of
Wadsworth Court, police said.
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the North Koreans
came for Hong
Kyoon An, his
mother stuck to
the plan. She
dragged the 18-
year-old from his
bed and hustled
him to the
backyard of their Seoul house.
It was a few weeks after the
June 25, 1950, North Korean
invasion of South Korea. An was
a high school senior, and the
Communist army was hungry for
conscripts.
“I didn’t want to fight on the
wrong side,” An told me,
remembering that day 70 years
ago.
And so An raced to the
woodpile behind the house. His
mother, Okhee Kang, removed a
few logs, and An crawled into the
space she had created earlier. He
compressed his body as best he
could as his mother covered the
hole, the sharp pine pushing into
his flesh.
“Where is your eldest son?” he
heard someone shout in a North
Korean accent.
Gone to find food weeks
earlier, his mother explained,
and missing ever since.
“I hope that dirty Yankee pilots
did not kill my son,” she said.
An recounts the story in a new
anthology called “Five Boyhood
Recollections of the Korean War,
1950-1953.” The Amazon book
includes essays from five
Washington-area writers and
was edited by Yearn Hong Choi.
Choi, 79, a retired college
professor who lives in Fairfax
Station, Va., assembled the book
to mark the 70th anniversary of
the start of a war about which he
feels most Americans — and
many Koreans, for that matter —
know little. Choi was 9 when
North Korea invaded andremembers the war’s early days
with the eyes of a child excited by
fighter jets in the sky and tanks
in the streets.
But then came the fear, the
hunger and the death. Refugees
streamed down from the north.
Every day became a search for
rice.
The book sketches some of the
dark absurdity of war. Jai Won
Choi lived in Daegu, 150 miles
south of Seoul. Five days after the
invasion, his homeroom teacherordered students to take their
desks home. The building was
needed by the U.S. 8th Army.
The 12-year-old Choi was too
small to carry his desk very far.
He wound up ditching it behind
the house of a family friend.
For An, the visit by North
Koreans hunting for euiyonggun
— o r “war volunteers” — w as an
indication that his house was not
safe. He tried to stay away from
home, one day boarding a tram
that crisscrossed Seoul.
“I was the only passenger,” he
said. “The driver was operating
the tram car quietly without even
looking at me. I could sense he
was also trying to dodge the
volunteer recruits. Without a
single word we rode that tram
car the whole day back and forth,
back and forth. He shared his
meager lunch with me, without
even saying a word.”
After three months, U.S. troops
led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur
helped push the Communists
back north. An joined the South
Korean army and was sent to the
front. The war continued until
July 27, 1953. Of the 150 men in
his Officer Candidate School
class, a third were killed, a third
were wounded and a third, like
An, came home unscathed.
“I was one of the very lucky
ones,” he said.
After eight years in the
military, An went to Wisconsinfor college. He eventually settled
in the Washington area and
worked for the House Ethics
Committee during the
“Koreagate” scandal and later
served as a lobbyist before a stint
with the FBI. He’s now 88 and
lives with his wife, Jung An, in
Ashburn. They have two children
and two grandchildren.
Today, South Korea is a
modern democracy, a place of
glittering skyscrapers and
factories that churn out cutting-
edge products.
“ What they have done over the
last 70 years is almost shocking,
the achievement,” An said. “I’m
very proud of it.”
But An is also concerned. He
thinks there is a “peace mood”
afoot in South Korea that
underestimates the ruthlessness
of the North.
“I don’t think North Korea has
changed even an inch,” he said.
His American-born
grandchildren have no idea what
he and others went through
seven decades ago in Korea.
“I give my story to my
granddaughters,” he said. “I don’t
want to pressure them to read it.
Some other time, we may talk
about it.”
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FAMILY PHOTOS
Hong Kyoon An was a high school senior in Seoul in 1950 when
North Korean forces invaded South Korea. He hid in a woodpile at
home to avoid being forced into Communist army service.mortgage. Landlords were
barred from charging late fees
and penalties. Because the mor-
atorium requires a 30-day no-
tice of evictions, tenants
wouldn’t start being evicted
until Aug. 25.
The Maryland moratoriums
were not limited to federally
backed properties, a spokes-
woman for Frosh said. But the
governor’s eviction moratori-
um applies only to tenants
directly impacted by the coro-
navirus.
The court moratorium lifted
July 25 for launching certain
kinds of evictions, but others
cannot be launched until Aug.- No one who can prove that
they are directly impacted by
the coronavirus can be forced to
leave until the governor’s mora-
torium is lifted.
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across the country and about
330,000 in Maryland are at risk
of eviction. African American
and Hispanic residents are ex-
pected to be hit hardest.
“Extension of the moratoria
is critical simply because the
conditions underlying Mary-
landers’ inability to pay rent
and consumer debt remain
largely unchanged,” the letter
reads. “Many Marylanders were
struggling to pay housing and
other expenses before the
COVID-19 crisis, and the pan-
demic has exacerbated these
difficulties exponentially.”
Under the federal moratori-
um, evictions proceedings were
halted between March 27 and
July 25 from “covered proper-
ties,” which included public
housing, federally subsidized
housing and residential proper-
ty subject to a federally backedjoint letter to the courts asking
for a moratorium extension.
The two chairs of the housing
committees of the state legisla-
ture made a similar request.
Also on Monday, a legislative
work group on housing issued a
report that offers numerous
recommendations to stave off
evictions. They range from
eliminating late fees to ensur-
ing that tenants have legal
representation.
“This is a full-on crisis,” said
Robert E. McGarrah Jr., an
attorney who works pro bono
for Maryland Legal Aid in
Montgomery County. “People
are in jeopardy of not only
losing their homes but having
their credit ruined forever.”
A report from the Aspen
Institute, a nonprofit and non-
partisan think tank, estimates
that about 20 million rentersnot have to pay for it.”
Federal and state eviction
moratoriums put in place at the
start of the pandemic are start-
ing to expire, along with en-
hanced unemployment bene-
fits, although Congress and the
White House are debating how
to extend those payments.
The letter from the Maryland
task force is at least the third
request made in the state in the
past month to extend the
court’s moratorium — which
exists alongside a separate mor-
atorium ordered by Gov. Larry
Hogan (R) that will last as long
as the existing coronavirus
state of emergency.
Concerned about how remote
eviction hearings could impact
due process for renters, a group
of advocates, including the
ACLU, Maryland Legal Aid and
the Public Justice Center, sent aA spokesperson for Barber
and Morrissey confirmed Mon-
day that they had received the
letter but declined to comment
further.
Adam Skolnik, executive di-
rector of the Maryland Multi-
Housing Association, called the
request “fundamentally unfair”
to landlords, who have also
suffered during the pandemic.
“We disagree... to a forever,
ongoing moratorium,” said
Skolnick, whose group repre-
sents 115 companies that own
215,000 rental units statewide.
He said the association
would like to see more rental
assistance for tenants, so that
landlords can still get paid: “I
don’t see anyone clamoring to
let people go into Giant and
Harris Teeter and get food and
EVICTIONS FROM B1
Frosh looks to delay evictions, debt collection a ctions until Jan. 31
this summer in a campuswide
survey. About half of continuing
students and 58 percent of first-
year and transfer students said
they “definitely” would not prefer
to attend online classes for the
entire semester.
But in a survey of 926 faculty
members, 56 percent said they
felt “uncomfortable” or “extreme-
ly uncomfortable” returning to
campus, citing health issues and
concerns about social distancing.
[email protected]this. At the end of the day, people
are dying. There’s nothing politi-
cal about that,” she said.
GW joins the University of the
District of Columbia and Gallau-
det University, which disclosed
plans this summer to hold all
courses online. Other universi-
ties in the District are planning to
offer a combination of virtual and
in-person classes.
Students and faculty members
at GW expressed conflicting
views about returning to campussome of the surging states, such
as California and Florida and
Texas.”
McArthur, who is studying po-
litical science with a focus in
public policy, said her peers have
mixed reactions. Some are grate-
ful for the discount. Others are
disappointed that they won’t be
back on campus. But McArthur
resisted the notion that GW’s
announcement reflects a political
position.
“It’s important to not politicizeSydney McArthur, 19, a rising
sophomore from Lumberton,
N.J., who planned to live on
campus, said she was nervous
about returning to school. McAr-
thur’s parents have underlying
health conditions, and she wor-
ried about the risk she would
pose to them if she went to school
and returned home, she said.
“I’m just really appreciative,
personally,” McArthur said about
her school’s change of plans. “So
many students from GW are fromUndergraduates who live on
campus will not get the price cut;
officials noted that students who
live off campus will not have
access to the same resources as
students who reside in the
dorms.
Most graduate students will
attend classes online, as well,
with certain exceptions for pro-
grams that require in-person
classes.
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George Washington University will go with online fall semester
said, do not justify rolling back
Maryland’s entire reopening
plan.
“We’re watching the numbers
every single day. And if we think
we have to take further action,
nobody has been more aggres-
sive in taking actions than I
have,” Hogan said.
The governor attributed the
rising caseload partly to what he
said was more than threefold
increase in testing over the past
month. He said officials are con-
cerned about what he called “a
slight increase in hospitaliza-
tions” in recent days but said the
numbers so far do not call for
across-the-board action.
And he said it is up to “local
liquor boards, county liquor
boards, county health depart-
ments and, if necessary, county
law enforcement” to enforce the
state’s strict rules about seating
and distancing inside bars and
restaurants.
“We’ve told the leaders they
have to start enforcing them,”
Hogan said. “It’s causing a huge
problem.”
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[email protected]Erin Cox contributed to this report.putting in place in the District.
Officials in Maryland — where
Gov. Larry Hogan (R) last week
criticized New York’s decision to
put Maryland on its quarantine
list — declined to discuss wheth-
er they were considering such
options.
Virginia and some parts of
Maryland have seen rises in
their test positivity rates, partic-
ularly among young people. Ex-
perts have said those rates and
the rising caseload in the great-
er Washington area are of con-
cern and warned that govern-
ments should consider requir-
ing face coverings, shutting
down bars and stopping indoor
dining.
On Monday, Maryland, the
District and Virginia reported
more than 2,700 new cases and a
dozen deaths. The District re-
ported 78 new cases and one new
death. Maryland had 1,128 new
cases and seven new deaths.
Virginia reported 1,505 new cas-
es and four new deaths.
Hogan reiterated in an inter-
view Monday that it’s up to local
leaders to regulate bar behavior
and implement stricter mask
requirements to curb localized
spikes. Statewide numbers, heArundel County have taken more
aggressive measures to try to
slow down the virus and enforce
social distancing, mask-wearing
and other restrictions.
On Friday, officials in Virginia
said the state wasn’t considering
any self-quarantine measures
similar to those Bowser wasia and the District has been from
the reopening of bars, indoor
dining at restaurants and people
just generally being out and
about more, according to health
experts.
D.C. expanded its mask man-
date last week and jurisdictions
including Baltimore and AnneFlorida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa,
Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska,
Nevada, New Mexico, North Car-
olina, North Dakota, Ohio, Okla-
homa, South Carolina, Tennes-
see, Texas, Utah, Washington and
Wisconsin.
City officials acknowledged
that local authorities would not
be able to widely enforce the
order — which is similar to rules
being put in place by states
across the country. But officials
said they expect residents and
visitors to follow it. Anyone who
“willfully violates” the order can
be charged with a misdemeanor
and fined up to $1,000 and
imprisoned up to 30 days.
Authorities said Washingto-
nians planning to go to beaches
in North Carolina and Delaware
in upcoming weeks should can-
cel those vacations. Under the
order, if they go, they would
have to quarantine upon their
return.
The mayor’s order comes as
there have been spikes in corona-
virus cases nationally and i n
parts of the D.C. region. Much of
the increase in Maryland, Virgin-
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