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Woman is killed in
Fairfax County crash

A woman was killed in a two-
car crash that occurred in the
Baileys Crossroads area shortly
after 2:15 a.m. Tuesday, Fairfax
County police said.
A Honda Accord struck a
Volkswagen Jetta as it was
turning into Skyline Plaza in the
3700 block of South George
Mason Drive, police said. The
Jetta was headed south on the
road at the time of the crash,
while the Accord was heading
north.
The crash killed an adult
female passenger in the Jetta, and
the adult female driver was taken
to the hospital with non-life-
threatening injuries, police said.
The driver of the Accord and a
passenger tried to flee the scene
on foot after the crash, but
officers located them, police said.
The driver was taken to the
hospital with life-threatening
injuries. The passenger, a man,
was arrested on charges of being
drunk in public, police said.
Detectives are investigating
the cause of the crash.
Authorities later identified the
passenger killed in the Jetta as
Gladis Suyapa Deras, 54, of Falls
Church, who was pronounced
dead at the scene. P olice said
speed and alcohol appeared to be
factors in the crash.
— Justin Jouvenal
and Dana Hedgpeth

Woman killed in
crash is identified

Fairfax County police have
identified a woman who was
killed after a car ran off a road in
Annandale last Friday morning
and struck a group of pedestrians.
Eileen Garnett, 83, of
Annandale, was taken to a
hospital and later died.
The driver of a Nissan Sentra, a
passenger and four pedestrians
were t aken to a hospital, said
Fairfax County Police Lt. James
Curry.
The five who survived suffered
serious injuries that were not life-
threatening.
Officers were called to the
scene of the crash in the 7200
block of Maple Place shortly after
11 a.m. last Friday.
An initial investigation found
that the driver dropped food and
spilled a drink and as she tried to
get the items, she “lost control of
the vehicle crossing the center
median,” a police statement said.
The car ran off the road, struck
the pedestrians and hit a chain-
link fence before stopping, Curry
said.
Officials said the pedestrians
were in a parking lot, discussing a
community project in the area.
The vehicle hit four of them
before it struck a fence.
Information about the
condition of the driver and
passenger was not immediately
available. Police said an initial
investigation found that speed
and alcohol did not appear to be
factors in the incident.
— Justin Jouvenal
and Dana Hedgpeth

LOCAL DIGEST

BY RACHEL WEINER

President Biden has nominat-
ed Judge Florence Y. Pan to a seat
on the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the D.C. Circuit.
In 2021, Pan took Ketanji
Brown Jackson’s seat on the U.S.
District Court for D.C. when Jack-
son, now headed to the U.S. Su-
preme Court, became an appel-
late judge. Now Pan is being
nominated for Jackson’s appel-
late court seat.
Both women were elevated as
part of a concerted push by the
Biden administration to add
more women and people of color
to the federal bench. Another
Biden nominee to the D.C. Cir-


cuit, Judge J. Michelle Childs of
South Carolina, had her confir-
mation hearing last month. Pan
would be the first Chinese Ameri-

can woman on the appellate
court, according to the National
Asian Pacific American Bar Asso-
ciation.

A.B. Cruz III, acting president
of the organization, in a state-
ment called Pan “a leader in the
Asian Pacific American commu-
nity” with “a stellar record.”
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
(D-D.C.) said in a statement that
Pan “brings much-needed diver-
sity to the federal circuit courts,
especially at a time when Asian
Americans are being attacked.”
Pan was first nominated to the
federal bench by President Ba-
rack Obama in 2016 but was
blocked by Senate Republicans,
who refused to hold confirmation
hearings for his candidates. She
was confirmed under Biden by a
vote of 68 to 30.
Because of the pandemic, Pan
had her investiture ceremony for
the District Court seat only on
Friday. At the event, Chief Judge
Beryl A. Howell praised her work
ethic and drive.
Pan was also warmly intro-
duced by former attorney general
Michael B. Mukasey, a Republi-

can for whom she clerked in the
Southern District of New York.
Pan thanked her parents, who
came here from Taiwan as gradu-
ate students, for deciding to raise
their children in the United
States.
As a Superior Court judge, Pan
sided with D.C.'s attorney general
in fights over digital signs being
placed across the city — a dispute
that led to a city council member’s
resignation — and the landlord of
a run-down apartment building.
She also handled the trials of a
D.C. corrections officer who
smuggled drugs into the jail, a
man who killed his ex-girlfriend
while her 13-year-old daughter
was in a nearby bedroom, and a
rapist whose crimes she de-
scribed as perhaps the “most har-
rowing this court has ever heard.”
Before becoming a Superior
Court judge, Pan served as a
federal prosecutor in D.C., includ-
ing as deputy chief in charge of
appellate cases.

THE DISTRICT


Pan nominated for seat on Court of Appeals for D.C. Circuit


U.S. SENATE/REUTERS
Judge Florence Y. Pan was elevated as part of a push by the White
House to add more women and people of color to the federal bench.

Jurist has followed
in the footsteps of
Justice-designate Jackson

understanding that the front line
should not be at an elementary
school, a football game, a grocery
store, a church, a restaurant or
anywhere else that people go to
live. And teachers, after two
years of being asked to put
themselves at risk during a
pandemic, in a traditionally low-
paying and difficult position,
have sacrificed enough.
We elect people to Congress,
and pay them, to represent us all;
to ensure we get a chance at life
and liberty. They have failed. And
it has cost us — too much.

imagine being the parent of a
child in a classroom where
teachers have a gun.”
So the same people who
don’t trust teachers to choose
which books to assign their
kids or to talk with them about
gender identity also want them
to be trained in crisis
marksmanship?
The solution isn’t about
securing schools or arming
teachers. Or buying Kevlar-lined
bookbags or sweatshirts for
kindergartners, just in case.
The solution is us,

Attorney General Ken Paxton
said, after the shooting. “You’re
going to have to have more
people trained to react.”
It’s a ridiculous idea proposed
by the people (the Republicans)
who don’t want to talk about the
real problems — that America is
awash in guns.
“I would never carry a gun
into a room with children or
youth,” a teacher told me on
Thursday, as she took a deep
breath and headed into a school
that is expecting more of
teachers every day. “I also can’t

to learn.
“What they don’t tell you is
teachers are told in training that
they have to lock out any of their
students who are out of the
classroom,” said Erin Hahn, an
author and Michigan teacher.
“Even if they beg and bang on the
door. Because there could be a
shooter using them to access
your classroom ... That policy
always haunted me.”
Arming teachers is in the
conversation again.
“You’re going to have to do
more at the school,” Texas

feel my legs!” over and over again
as her friends duck for cover.
l A young man working the
drive-through at a McDonald’s in
Crofton, Md., was shot dead at
the window.
l A 15-year-old was gunned
down in his Southeast
Washington neighborhood.
l A 46-year-old man was
arrested after calling an
elementary school in Southern
Maryland and threatening “mass
violence.”
“We have to harden these
targets,” Texas Lt. Gov. Dan
Patrick said, on the day when his
state was the site of one of
modern America’s worst school
massacres.
It’s a schoolhouse, not a target.
And the hardening is already
happening, Dan.
Our kids and teachers are
hardening to the gunfire and
bloodshed that is a part of their
lives. They’re preparing for it,
every day.
It can be outside an upscale
private school in an expensive
part of the nation’s capital, (the
Edmund Burke School shooting
in April) or at a public school in
Iowa where most of the kids are
“economically disadvantaged”
(the East High School shooting
in Des Moines in March). They
will know gunfire.
The kids and teachers at Robb
Elementary School rehearsed the
attack two months before the
assault with drills that took less
than one generation of students
to become as standard as the
morning bell.
All of our nation’s kids and
teachers do this. Ask them; ask a
teacher what it’s like to pretend
that they are being stalked and
slaughtered in the place they go


DVORAK FROM B1


PETULA DVORAK


Shooting drills are now as standard at school as the morning bell


KIN MAN HUI/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS NEWS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A mourner bows down in prayer Thursday at a memorial site for the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting i n Uvalde, Texas.

BY PETER HERMANN

D.C. police investigating Mon-
day’s fatal shooting of a man
inside a tent at a homeless en-
campment at Thomas Circle said
Wednesday they have grown
more unsure of what happened
and are seeking to interview a
person seen running away.
While police initially classified
the shooting of 32-year-old Em-
manuel Lys a homicide, officials
said at a community meeting
Wednesday that detectives have
not ruled out a suicide. Police also
said it is possible that a person
shot Lys in the neck in self-de-
fense or that his death was an
accident.
Authorities said a firearm re-
covered outside the tent was the
weapon used in the killing, which
occurred about 9:45 a.m. on a
median strip at 14th Street and
Massachusetts Avenue NW, on
the east side of the circle.
D.C. Police Cmdr. James M.
Boteler, who heads the 3rd Dis-
trict station, said at the Zoom
meeting with concerned resi-
dents: “We don’t know the exact
circumstances of how that fire-
arm went off.”
Boteler added that police
“don’t know if it was a suicide. We
don’t know if there was malicious
intent.” He said the person being
sought “was present at the tent
when the firearm went off and we
want to speak to him.” That per-
son’s identity has not been dis-
closed.
The hour-long meeting was or-


ganized by the DowntownDC
Business Improvement District
after residents who live in the
area complained that the en-
campment had posed health and
safety risks for months. Many
asked why someone had to be
killed to spur District officials to
remove the encampment.
In the Zoom text chat during
the meeting, some residents com-
plained of being harassed and of

witnessing crimes, while others
said conditions in the small en-
campment were also dangerous
for those living there. One person
questioned whether those moved
out by the city after the shooting
received the help they had been
promised.
Debra Kilpatrick Byrd, director
of homeless services for the im-
provement district, said that
about 16 people inhabited the

encampment over the past three
months and that six were still
there after the shooting when
police arrived. She said that hous-
ing was found for three of them
and that the other three were
benefiting from outreach pro-
grams. Officials said some may
have moved to another encamp-
ment a few blocks away.
Efforts to contact Lys’s family
in Malden in suburban Boston

have been unsuccessful. Price
said it appears Lys had been at the
encampment for some time and
was known to some outreach
workers.
Police Cmdr. Duncan Bedlion,
who heads the 2nd District,
which also includes part of Thom-
as Circle, said the encampment
has been on police radar for a
while. He said officers have made
35 arrests in the past four months
and confiscated narcotics and
firearms.
Bedlion said that in one case, a
man brandished a gun at a nearby
convenience store and hid the
weapon in a tent. He also said
people who did not live in the
encampment used the tents to
hide weapons and contraband.
“It has been challenging,” the
commander said.
Police said they work closely
with the D.C. Department of Hu-
man Services on when to take
action against encampments. Bo-
teler described a delicate balance.
“We all want to be empathetic
to folks’ needs, both who are
residing in some of these encamp-
ments and the residents affected
by them,” the commander said.
“There is a very fine line we have
to walk ... to make sure we’re
helping everybody.”
But Boteler said “no camping”
signs have been posted at the
park, and he told residents to
report any attempts to try to
reestablish an encampment.
“Removal will be fast,” Boteler
said. “We do not want to let this
spur back up again.”

THE DISTRICT


Details of Thomas Circle shooting grow murky


MATT MCCLAIN/THE WASHINGTON POST
Police at the scene of Monday’s fatal shooting in Thomas Circle in Northwest Washington. Officials
initially called the shooting a homicide but now say they have not ruled out suicide or self-defense.
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