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2 men slain in
separate shootings
Two men were killed
Wednesday in separate
shootings in Southwest and
Southeast Washington,
according to D.C. police.
marquis osborne, 21, was shot
about 5:30 p.m. outside a
Safeway store in the 1100 block
of fourth Street SW, near the
Waterfront metro station. Police
said he was shot several times
and died at a hospital.
The shooting occurred in an
area of new apartments and
shops and outside the offices of
the D.C. Department of
Consumer and regulatory
Affairs and the community’s
Advisory Neighborhood
Committee.
The committee chair, Gail
fast, said the shooting outside
the Safeway unnerved residents.
She called it “unusual and not
commonplace” for the area and
time of day. Police said osborne
lived in Southwest Washington.
Police were also investigating
another fatal shooting that
occurred shortly after 10 p.m. in
the Greenway neighborhood of
Southeast.
Authorities said Zenus Epps,
33, of Southeast, was found shot
in the 3500 block of A Street SE,
near minnesota Avenue and East
Capitol Street. Police said Epps
was shot several times in the
body and head and died at a
hospital.
Authorities did not comment
further on either shooting and
said no arrests had been made.
The District has recorded 36
homicides this year, even with
the number at this time in 2019,
which ended with the highest
count in a decade.
— Peter HermannMan’s body found
hanging from treeD.C. police are investigating
after a man’s body was found
hanging from a tree Thursday
morning in Northwest
Washington, according to
authorities.
Karimah Bilal, a police
spokeswoman, said investigators
think the man killed himself.
The medical examiner will
perform an autopsy to
determine an official cause of
death.
The body was discovered
about 7 a.m. in the 7200 block of
Seventh Street NW, a residential
street in the Ta koma
neighborhood.
The man was pronounced
dead at the scene. Police
declined to comment further on
the case.
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disaster declarationPresident Trump has a pproved
maryland Gov. L arry Hogan’s
request for a major d isaster
declaration in t he state’s fight
against t he coronavirus.
“This declaration will help
provide much-needed funding for
state and local governments, and it
will be another important step in
maryland’s a ggressive and
coordinated response to
#CoVID19,” Hogan (r) tweeted.
The governor pressed f or the
declaration, which w ill allow t he
state to be eligible for
reimbursement for certain
actions taken during the c risis, in
a phone call w ith the White
House, Hogan spokesman mike
ricci s aid.
— O vetta WigginstHe DIstrICtMetro temporarily
closes 2 more stationsmetro temporarily s hut d own
two stations o n the red L ine on
Thursday afternoon. The agency
previously closed 19 stations
because of the coronavirus.
The Te nleytown-AU a nd Van
Ness-UDC s tations were closed
after t he transit agency learned a
contractor who had recently
performed work at t he stations
tested p ositive f or the v irus, said
metro spokesman Dan Stessel.
The contractor worked overnight,
when metro was closed a nd not
carrying passengers.
metro’s p andemic task f orce
will decide when to reopen t he
stations. The agency has started
tracing t he man’s actions while
working.
Three metro employees have
tested p ositive f or the v irus,
including a metrobus operator
based i n the B ladensburg
division.
— J ustin GeorgeStreet Sense suspends
print publicationSince 2003, some struggling
with homelessness in the District
have sold Street S ense, a print
newspaper focused o n poverty
and i nequality, o n city streets. on
Tuesday, B rian C arome, Street
Sense media’s CEo, said it would
suspend p ublication of i ts print
edition, citing coronavirus
concerns.
Articles will s till be published
on the Street Sense website, and
readers will be a ble to tip v endors
through a mobile app.
Street Sense vendors bought
papers f or about 5 0 cents f romStreet Sense media, w hich a lso
provides c ase m anagement and
counseling services, and sold
them for $ 2. Some who sold the
paper also published s tories in it
— g etting p aid in additional
papers t o sell.
martin Walker, 48, said h e has
been selling Street S ense o n and
off since 2005. martin, who is
currently living o n the streets,
said he has made a s much a s
$600 per w eek s elling the p aper.
This week he made $35.
— J ustin Wm. MoyerVIrgInIAArlington markets are
shifting to preordersArlingtonians a nd others
searching for fresh produce can
return to one of the county’s
“winter m arkets” t o directly buy
food — b ut o nly if they p reorder.
To l imit p ossible exposure t o
the c oronavirus, v endors are not
permitted to display f ood o r have
on-site shopping. Vendors a nd
customers have t o maintain a six-
foot separation w hile p icking up
food. only 1 0 people will b e
allowed at t he m arket a t a time.
Arlington has t hree winter
markets: Arlington farmers
market, Pike Park farmers
market o n Columbia Pike a nd
Westover farmers market.
Information o n how to schedule
orders w ill be posted on each
market’s website.
— P atricia SullivantHe regIonMore fire personnel
test positive for virusfour personnel at t he
montgomery County fire and
rescue Service have tested
positive for the coronavirus,
spokesman Pete Piringer said,
marking the first known c ases i n
the 2 ,700-strong department. The
patients include c areer a nd
volunteer responders.
Piringer said 19 others are self-
quarantining.
other area fire a gencies h ave
also reported cases of the virus
among their ranks.
In t he District, officials said
Thursday that two more
firefighters h ave tested p ositive
for t he coronavirus, b ringing the
total number infected to 12.
Doug Buchanan, spokesman f or
the D.C. fire a nd E mergency
medical Services D epartment, s aid
officials believe one of the
firefighters had c ontact with
another who previously tested
positive. He s aid health officials have
not y et d etermined how t he other
firefighter c ontracted the virus.
— Rebecca Tan
and Peter HermannCoronAVIrUs DIgestand d own t he busy a nd
depressing stretch o f New York
Avenue w ith h er 6-year-old son
and 1 2-year-old d aughter.
“my son was so happy when he
got on a group chat t he other day,”
she s aid. “They gave us free
Internet since last year, so he was
able to s ee his friends.”
The work packets f rom school
and Internet access have m ade i t
bearable for her k ids. But she was
about to start a new job a t the
Giant food warehouse two weeks
ago; they offered her the p erfect
daytime hours t hat would let her
go t o work while t he kids w ent to
school.
“But I had to turn it down
because who would be h ome w ith
my k ids now that there’s n o
school?” s he said.
And she’s b ack t o square o ne.
Back to 323 square f eet of s pace.
pe [email protected]
Twitter: @petuladstocked h ouse. We’re coming u p
with a one-pager of activity
suggestions today as well a s some
free, educational apps. Help
please!”
And suggestions poured i n.
Donations came. And last week,
the v olunteers c ame to the h otel
shelters l ike latex-gloved elves
and d istributed b ags o f snacks,
tip s heets with educational
websites and activities easy t o do
inside with limited s upplies.
They g ave out toys — P lay-Doh,
Velcro mitts with Velcro b alls and
wipe-board g ames w ere
especially popular. Things that
keep k ids busy.
“families were thrilled,”
Larson s aid. “They were s o
surprised a nd delighted, and t he
children were so excited. The
moms kept saying, ‘We miss y ’all’
and ‘ Thank you a ll s o much. We
really appreciate you thinking o f
us.’ ”
She rebranded the e nterprise,
Playtime-to-Go, and would like to
keep t he donations coming a s
long as kids a re out o f school.
When I met Sullivan a nd
Joaquin, they were out walking
around the parking l ot, i n the
drizzle. Anything to just get that
little-boy e nergy out.
A friend came b y and t hey all
sat in the car, j ust to be sitting
somewhere other than that h otel
room.
Another mom, who didn’t w ant
me to use her n ame, walked upmarket rates, rents o ut every
room and r akes in city taxpayer
revenue, it bans the homeless
guests from using the giant
carpeted b allroom, the b usiness
room with computers o r the
fitness space.
The families do get their rooms
cleaned and are served three
meals a day. But they are not
allowed to congregate in the
hallways o r the l obby. T hey are
only allowed t o be on t heir r oom’s
floor or the f loor with a laundry
room.
So, n ormally, they g o outside as
much as possible.
This week, with f ew p laces to
go, they’re hunkered down in
their rooms.
As s oon a s D.C. schools shut
down, Jamila L arson knew i t
would be t ough for homeless kids.
Larson i s a social worker who
runs the Homeless Children’s
Playtime Project, a nonprofit that
offers scheduled p laytimes and
tutoring sessions and f ield trips to
the White House b owling alley.
The programs were a ll s hut
down for social distancing, b ut
that didn’t m ean Larson and h er
army of volunteers quit.
“Crowdsourcing help needed:
What are some fun activities
families stuck within one r oom o f
shelter hotel can do to pass t he
time together t hat requires no
extra materials?” L arson asked,
on h er facebook page. “A ll t he
guides I’m seeing assume a well-nowhere else to go. Everything i s
closed.
“The playground a t least, t hat’s
where h e can go t o get the energy
out, you know?
“But we got there, and it was
closed. Everywhere he goes —
school, t he playground, all over
the c ity — i t’s closed. I feel l ike the
outdoors is closed, too.”
Sure, this coronavirus isolation
is maddening i n a suburban
house, a townhouse, a condo o r
an apartment. T he k ids are bored
with basketball, the t rampoline,
the b ackyard, walking the dog.
But i magine this life without
all that. It’s a prison when home is
a hotel room t hat’s being used as a
homeless s helter. Where a child
was k illed a month ago.
That’s t he case for more than
500 k ids in the D istrict. They a re
spread a cross h otels and s mall
shelters a round the city, t he
hidden h omeless with b ackpacks
and h omework and s ports
practice. for most o f them, being
homeless i s just a small part of
who they are. Now, it feels like
that’s all they are.
There i s usually a steady
stream of kids going in and out of
the Q uality Inn on New York
Avenue i n Northeast Washington,
a hotel that s erves as one of the
city’s biggest e mergency
homeless s helters for families.
Though the hotel charges
dVorAK from B1
PetUlA DVorAK
Virus shrinks child’s world to a 323-square-foot hotel room
ing the novel coronavirus.
Patients then may be tested in
the emergency room, spokes-
woman Kristin feliciano said,
but the hospitals are not set up to
receive walk-in community
members looking for tests. Any-
one suspecting they have symp-
toms should first contact their
primary care provider, and
should call the hospital before
turning up there.
[email protected]erin Cox, Darran simon and rebecca
tan contributed to this report.l The National Guard last
week set up a screening and
testing location in the Washing-
ton redskins stadium’s parking
lot. Te sts are available only by
preregistration through a physi-
cian.
l Some medStar Health cen-
ters, with multiple locations in
the region, are testing for the
virus. Patients are asked to call
the clinic or hospital first.
l Holy Cross hospitals, in Sil-
ver Spring and Germantown,
have tents to triage patients with
influenza-like illnesses, includ-Wayne, Pa.Maryland
l Kaiser Permanente also has
testing sites for its members in
Gaithersburg, Largo and South
Baltimore, with the same hours
and criteria as in Virginia.
l Adventist HealthCare Shady
Grove medical Center has coro-
navirus testing only for critically
ill patients who are likely to need
hospitalization, said spokeswom-
an Lydia Parris. The hospital has
no community testing sites, she
said.patients. A doctor’s order is re-
quired.
Virginia
l Virginia Hospital Center in
Arlington set up a temporary
drive-through site at 1 429 N.
Quincy St.
The location collects samples
from about 60 patients per day
and sends them out for testing. It
is by appointment only and re-
quires doctor-provided covid-19
test referrals. The site is reserved
for Arlington residents, employ-
ees or patients of the hospital’s
medical staff.
l Kaiser Permanente has drive-
through testing locations for its
members in Woodbridge and Ty-
sons.
The sites are open for testing
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days
a week, and require a doctor’s
order and appointment.
l Inova Health System set up
three of its urgent-care centers at
Dulles South, North Arlington
and Ty sons to screen all patients
with symptoms connected to re-
spiratory illnesses and provide
drive-through sample collection
for tests that have been ordered
by physicians. All three clinics
are open daily, from 8 a.m. to
8 p.m.
l Pm Pediatrics in fairfax
County has opened drive-up cor-
onavirus testing center at 11056
Lee Highway. only pediatric pa-
tients who have been evaluated
by a pediatric expert, either in-
person or via the firm’s app, are
eligible for the test. The only
other site where the 55-clinic
company offers the test is in
testIng from B1
Area coronavirus test sites require doctor’s referral
KatHerIne Frey/tHe WasHIngton Post
A tent for coronavirus testing behind a Kaiser Permanente facility in gaithersburg is open to members
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