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out on Chesapeake Bay. He said the police detective leading the investigation notified him of the arrest Wednesday morning. — Peter Hermann

VIRGINIA

Person shot, w ounded by Pr. William police

A person was shot by Prince William County police Thursday night in the Dumfries area, police officials said. Few details were released late Thursday, but police said they are investigating the shooting that happened in the 3600 block of Secret Grove Court, according to a social media post released by the department. Police did not identify the age or gender of the person who was shot, but of ficials said the wounded person was taken to a hospital. No officers were injured, authorities said. — Clarence Williams

3 more men arrested in Woodbridge slaying

Three more men were arre sted in connection with a slaying in Woodbridge, authorities said Wednesday. Prince William County police said that about 6:10 a.m. Nov. 29, officers went to the 4000 block of Westwind Drive in Woodbridge on a report that shots had been fired. T hey were told th at the victim, identified as Michael Bright Adom, 18, of Woodbridge, was suffering from gunshot wounds and taken to a hospital. A dom died at the hospital, and another man was injured in the shooting, police said. Police said that J’Vahn Durgan, 19, and Wilford Amoako Osei, 19, both of Woodbridge, and Joseph Alpha Tarawalie, 18, of the District, were charged with accesso ry after the fact in a felony, conspir acy to commit a felony and attempted shooting into an occupied dwelling. Marquis Rene Whitmore, 19, of Woodbrid ge was charged with murder in the shooting, police said. — Justin Wm. Moyer

THE DISTRICT

Police investigate two fatal shootings in SE

Two shootings Wednesday night and early Thursday left two people dead in Southeast Washington, D.C. police said. The shooting Wednesday happened shortly before 9:30 p.m. in the 1000 block of 13th Street SE, near Potomac Gardens. Police said a m an was fatally shot, and another man with wounds described as not life-threatening was taken to a hospital. Police later identified the man who was killed as Kelvin Gross, 30, of Oxon Hill, Md. Shortly after 3 a.m. Thursday, police said, a m an was fatally shot in the 3200 block of 23rd Street SE, in the Shipley neighborhood. Police identified him as Duane Woolfolk, 21, of Southeast. — Peter Hermann

Man charged in killing of construction worker

Police on Wednesday arrested a man in the shooting of a 48- year-old constru ction worker who authorities said was killed dur ing a robbery while he was renovating a home last month in Northeast Washington. George Miller, 26, of Capitol Heights, Md., was charged in a warrant with first-degree murder while armed, D.C. police said. He was arrested by members of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force. It could not be determined whether Miller has an attorney. The victim, Elias Flores of Adelphi, Md., was shot the afternoon of Nov. 18 in the 1600 block of Olive Street NE. His son, Luis Flores, said his father owned a construction company and was renovating a home on that block. He said a co-worker who witnessed the shooting told him the gunman announced a robbery but shot his father in the head before taking his wallet and fleeing. Flores died at a h ospital on Nov. 23. Luis Flores said his father had bee n an avid fisherman who often took his boat and g randchildren

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for a v ery long time, said Marla Spindel, the executive director of D.C. KinCare Alliance, a group that supports caregivers — usually grandparents — who step in to raise children. Earlier this year, the D.C. Council heard a p roposal for a bill th at would require training for all mandated reporters — the people li ke teachers, social workers and law enforcement officers who work closely with children and who must report suspected child abuse — s o they all know exactly what to do. When Makenzie died, I talked with residents at the Quality Inn who said they had been worried about Anderson’s children and they knew “that baby was in trouble .” If her neighbors knew, should housing officials have seen the danger as well? The bill died, but who knows if it would have helped sound an alarm on a c hild apparently sleeping in a b ed. And Jamila Larson, the former social worker whose Homeless Children ’s Playtime Project is a lifeline for all of D.C. children living in shelters, has long advocated for better mental health support for the families living in the shelters. “We have to make sure baby Makenzie does not die in vain,” Larson said. “Li ke Relisha Rudd, we hope our city will learn as much as we can about her short life and then do everything in our collective power to prevent another trage dy.” Relisha is still missing and we may never know her full story. Makenzie’s body told the story of her broken life and her long and painful death. And yet, there are no clear answers or plans to prevent another death like this. All we have is a l ament for another child our city has lost. [email protected] Twitter: @petulad

last week, when the wa rrant was issued for Anderson, after detectives spent 10 months building their case. She is being represented by the public defender’s office, which does not typically comment on cases. Could Makenzie have been saved? Is there a program that should be cre ated? A p rocedure that wasn’t followed? A careless bureaucrat who didn’t check all the boxes? We don’t know yet. Child and Family Services will not comment on cases, said the agenc y’s spokeswoman, Kera Tyler. There is a mechanism for looking into these things, the D.C. Child Fatality Re view Committee. But that committee, which “could obtain the information about various agency involvement with this family to identify gaps and how to fix them,” won’t get the case

to coax any sign of life from her body. The autopsy found injuries, including skull fractures and optic nerve sheaths that were torn. That kind of eye dama ge was found in every single fatal child abuse case, but none in accidental head injuries in a 13-year study. While being questioned by police, Anderson asked if sh e could go to a n earby store for snacks. She never returned. Her paternal grandmother, a federal worker, went to court days after Makenzie died, asking for and receiving custody of Anderson’s two other children, who are now 2 and 5 years old. Five months after Makenzie’s death, the ci ty moved out the last of the homeless families who had been placed in the hotel as an overflow shelter. But the story of what happened to Makenzie hadn’t moved on until

the next couple of days, she
became less alert and went
limp. Makenzie ’s 20-month-old
sister and Anderson went in and
out of the room, but there was
no sighting of Makenzie,
according to police.
When you’re staying in a
hotel-turned-shelter — a place
the residents had called “the
Trap” — you’re constantly
monitored. There are cameras
everywhere, there is hallway
securi ty, and there are bed
checks late at night.
This vigilance was, in part,
thanks to another little girl who
disappeared six years ago from
what was once the city’s biggest
homeless shelter, the old D.C.
General Hospital.
Relisha Rudd, then 8, was last
seen with Kahlil Malik Tatum, a
janitor at the shelter. A month
later, Tatum’s body was found —
an apparent suicide. Reli sha has
never been seen again.
The ci ty mobilized and
searched, lamented and
mourned — a nd legislated.
Those bed checks were
created after Relisha fell
through the cracks. But they
wouldn’t have done anything for
baby Makenzie: Of course a
baby should be lying quietly in
bed at 10 p.m., when the staff
knocks on the door and does a
head count every night.
Three days after Anderson
said Makenzie fell, the mother
woke up to find her baby cold
and unresponsive. She wrapped
her in a bright pink blanket and
got a ride with the baby’s father
to Childre n’s National Hospital.
By then, it was 2:30 in the
afternoon, according to the
documents.
Surveillance cameras show
her carrying the pink bundle,
completely wrapped up, like a
package, into the hospital.
Doctors and nurses descended
on Makenzie, trying fruitlessly

DVORAK FROM B1

PETULA DVORAK

No answers after another D.C. child lost

BILL O’LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST Until earlier this year, the Quality Inn on New York Avenue NE, pictured in 2018, s erved as an overflow homeless shelter.

BY LAUREN LUMPKIN

The University of Maryland in
College Park will offer more
in-person classes and introduce
a coron avirus vaccine task force
next semester as the school pre-
pares for the arrival, storage and
delivery of vaccines when the
drugs become available, the cam-
pus’s president said this week.
The announcement comes as
the school nears the end of a
challenging semester, and as the
community awaits a vaccine that
will be instrumental in helping
the campus get back to normal.
Universities will probably
play a significant role in distrib-
uting vaccines, not only to stu-
dents and employees but also to
nearby communities. It remains
unclear who will receive vacci-
nations first, or when they will
get their shots, but public health
experts expect a vaccine will be
made widely available during
the late spring and early sum-
mer.
U-Md.’s v accine task force will
be composed of school officials,
students and Prince George’s
County health experts, Darryll J.
Pines, the university’s president,

said in a message to the campus. Pines also shared plans to open more classrooms during the spring semester, another gradual step toward normalcy. About 20 percent of courses were held in person before Pines suspended face-to-face classes amid a surge of cases on and around campus last month. Next semester, a quarter of classes will be conducted face-to-face, Pines said. But, he also warned that plans can change. “If there is a l esson that we have learned throughout this pandemic, it is this: We must remain nimble and flexible and expect change,” Pines wrote. The spring semester will be- gin Jan. 25 with a two-week period of online-only classes, a measure intended to limit movement throughout campus and allow for wide-scale testing

when students return to school. Officials have installed another two-week buffer of online classes after spring break, when many students will probably leave the campus. The decision to leave the midsemester break intact was difficult, Pines said. “Giving students the opportu- nity to leave campus poses chal- lenges in mitigating the spread of the virus,” Pines wrote. But officials are also aware of the stress students and employees have experienced since the pandemic began. “Maintaining our mental health is equally important as our physical health, and we are putting safety measures in place to allow for a midsemester re- cess,” Pines said. U-Md. achieved a moderate degree of stability this semester by encouraging frequent testing and limiting the number of people on campus. The school en- rolls more than 40,000 students but just 22,000 have come onto campus this semester. U-Md. has administered more than 65,000 coronavirus tests since August, according to data

provided by the school. About 600 of those tests produced positive results. Students and employees who come to campus in the spring will be required to get tested for the virus and produce a negative result before returning. Students will have to take another test before in-person classes start two weeks after the beginning of the semester. But there were also challeng- es: More than 200 students were told to restrict their movement around campus after an out- break of coronavirus cases was recorded in a r esidence hall in September. And, last mo nth, about 150 students were referred to the school ’s conduct office for failing to comply with testi ng requirements. [email protected]

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