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THE DISTRICT

Man pleads guilty in boy’s shooting

A D.C. man pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter Monday in the 2020 death of an 11-year- old boy who was hit by a stray bullet in Southeast Washington. The defendant, Carlos General, 21, was among four alleged gang members arrested in the Fourth of July shooting. The three others pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in D.C. Superior Court earlier in February. The victim, Davon McNeal, a sixth-grader, was leaving a family- oriented anti-violence barbecue in the 1400 block of Cedar Street SE about 9:30 p.m. when feuding gang members opened fire nearby, authorities said. A stray bullet hit Davon in the head. As part of plea agreements with prosecutors, defendants Christian Wingfield, 24, Daryle Bond, 20, and Marcel Gordon, 26, are expected to receive prison terms in the range of 7½ to 10 years, according to court documents. The U.S. attorney’s office in the District said General’s plea deal calls for prison time in the 13-to-16-year range. The four are scheduled to be sentenced June 3. — Paul Duggan

MARYLAND

Man charged in slaying in District Heights

A 25-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in a shooting that occurred in District Heights, Prince George’s County police said. Mikel Kennie, of District Heights, is accused of killing Nathaniel Hampton III, 24, of Upper Marlboro, on Feb. 2, police said. Kennie is being held without bond at the county Department of Corrections. Officers found Hampton with gunshot wounds inside a vehicle in the 6500 block of Hil-Mar Drive about 12:10 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said Kennie and Hampton knew each other and that the shooting took place during a drug deal. — Jasmine Hilton

2 charged in stabbing in Langley Park

Two men have been charged with first- and second-degree murder in a stabbing in the Langley Park area F eb. 21, Prince George’s County police said. Jesus Escobar-Sanchez, 36, of no fixed address, and Douglas Gonzalez-Diaz, 26, of Hyattsville, are accused of killing 21-year-old Cristian Mendoza-Ventura. Both men are being held without bond at the county Department of Corrections, police said. Mendoza-Ventura was found with multiple stab wounds in the 7300 block of 17th Avenue about 11:15 p.m., police said. He died at a hospital. Police believe the men knew one another and the stabbing took place during a dispute. — Jasmine Hilton

LOCAL DIGEST

Internet that attests to the fact that it ever existed,” Addison said. “It took tracking down old newspaper clips, property records and phone books to find any evidence of it at all.” It’s a reminder that just because some place or event isn’t online, that doesn’t mean it didn’t exist or didn’t happen. Addison said it can be unsettling to people when they realize something from their childhood left no digital trace. Not that English’s Chick’n Steak House was ever part of his childhood. He’s 28. “I have no nostalgia for it,” Addison said. “Maybe it sounds silly, but it brings me joy to uncover stuff that means something to other people and to feel that maybe someone will look that question up one day and my essay will pop up and that will be the answer.” Addison’s quest to uncover the story of the building has become the most-read post on his newsletter. And while it may not be in the same category as stumbling across an unknown Shakespeare play or finding a Viking runestone in a New England field, it is its own tale of discovery. “The fact that ultimately this isn’t a momentous story makes it more meaningful to me in a way,” he said. “It’s such ordinary stuff, it feels like it should all be there, and it’s not. It’s ubiquitous and mass produced and already skipped into the past.”

Addison a newspaper ad from 1971 that included that building among the locations of a new restaurant. What became a Pizza Hut — a global company with more than 18,000 locations — started life as an outlet of a restaurant chain hatched in Salisbury, Md.: English’s Chick’n Steak House. The chain promised “authentic Eastern Shore home- style cooking,” including “Delmarvalous” fried chicken. “It was a concept piloted by this small regional chain,” Addison said. “It basically fizzled out in the 1980s, I believe.” English’s never garnered the fan base of other defunct chains, such as Little Tavern or Miles’- long Sandwich Shop. “There’s nothing on the

the shingled pilgrim hat mansard of Pizza Hut. Addison looked for information on Facebook pages devoted to local history. Many people surmised the building was once a Howard Johnson’s: orange, angled roof. Or maybe a Krispy Kreme: green, angled roof. But those didn’t seem quite right. In 1981, according to a story in the Evening Star, there was a fire in the building, which by then had become the Studio 450 Restaurant. Before that, the story noted, it was home to Fat Albert’s Rib Shack. Addison searched property records, but he was no closer to unearthing that initial seed. It turned out that it was more of an egg than a seed. A Facebook acquaintance sent

environment on his Substack newsletter, the Deleted Scenes. “But I also have this adjacent interest in architecture, commercial landscapes and retail history,” he said. The mystery of the Landover Pizza Hut brought all of Addison’s interests together. He told the story in a Feb. 2 post titled “Didn’t Used to Be a Pizza Hut,” a nod to a blog that catalogues buildings that began life as part of the pizza chain. “It’s kind of like a magnum opus,” he said of his essay. It’s also an exploration of what we think we know — and in the very limits of knowing. Addison began by going online and searching aerial images. Pictures from 1977 and 1980 showed the building. One photo was in color, revealing that the roof was then orange. It was also a different roof, a more steeply-angled structure than

Our suburbs can
seem
indistinguishable
from one another
— and
indistinguishable
within
themselves: just
endless, sidewalk-
less accretions of
tract homes, gas
stations and strip shopping
centers.
But grow up in the suburbs
and you come to know the
architecture as a cowboy knows
the landmarks along his cattle
drive: the Golden Arches of
McDonald’s, the fauxdobe of
Taco Bell, the rising sun of Roy
Rogers. When the topography
looks a little off, your brain
notices.
And so it was when Addison
Del Mastro was caught short as
he drove through Landover not
long ago. There was something
weird about a Pizza Hut that
caught his eye.
“The building was a square
and not a rectangle,” Addison
said. “The roof was a little
different.”
The windows were a little off,
too. Most Pizza Huts have
trapezoidal windows, but this
one didn’t. It was clear to
Addison that before it was a
Pizza Hut, this little building at
6747 Annapolis Rd. was
something else. But what
exactly?
Addison lives in Reston,
where he writes about
urbanism, land-use and the built

Architecture fan offers t he deep dish on h istory of a Md. P izza Hut

John
Kelly's

Washington

PHOTOS BY ADDISON DEL MASTRO D el Mastro d iscovered t hat this P izza Hut building in Landover was once a Fat Albert’s Rib Shack and an E nglish’s Chick’n Steak House.

Writer Addison Del Mastro’s quest to uncover the past of a Pizza Hut b ecame the most-read post on his newsletter.

BY FREDRICK KUNKLE

A nonprofit organization that
has operated the District’s only
indoor ice rink and put free skates
on thousands of children has ac-
cused the city of bungling plans to
replace the Southeast venue just
weeks before construction is sup-
posed to begin.
Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Are-
na said in a blistering statement
last week that the city’s Depart-
ment of General Services (DGS)
has come up with an unsuitable
proposal that shrank the arena in
size and ballooned its cost. Offi-
cials in the nonprofit organiza-
tion said they now oppose plans to
demolish the nearly 50-year-old
rink and start construction on a
new one next month.
Friends board member Patrice
Willoughby also accused the city
of failing to involve them in the
project’s plans despite a written
agreement pledging such collabo-
ration. She said in an interview
that since planning for the new
skating arena began in 2013, her

group has had to pry information about the project from the may- or’s office, the D.C. Council, and DGS, the agency charged with building and maintaining public facilities in the District. “Every time we’ve gotten information back we know that the planning’s been sideways,” said Willoughby a District resident and lobbyist who has served on the nonprofit’s board for about eight years. “We’re frustrated on behalf of the kids and the families. This should be a no brainer.” Instead, the city has blueprints for a facility that offers only one ice sheet, instead of two, and several unnecessary features that have driven the facility’s cost to $37.5 million — or, on a square- foot basis, about what a luxury high rise would cost, Willoughby said. She also said the city has not provided budget documents that explain why project’s estimate has increased from an estimated $23.1 million in June 2021. “We know of no recreational ice rink in the U.S. that has a cost per

square foot at this level,” she said. The estimated time frame for construction expanded, too. Keith A. Anderson, DGS’s direc- tor, wasn’t available Friday to comment on the project and was the only person authorized to do so, an agency spokeswoman said. Other city officials acknowledged that coronavirus-related disrup- tions have added to the project’s estimated cost but said city planners have been working with the contractor to bring them down to the city’s target of $30 million for a new arena. They also expressed their frustration with the nonprofit’s criticism weeks before construction was to get underway. “We disagree with their assess- ment,” a top DGS official said. The agency also denied that the Friends have been cut out of the city’s planning. City officials said the nonprofit’s representatives have exchanged emails with city planners, attended biweekly meetings and been present at public forums concerning the rink’s plans.

“They literally sit in on meetings with us,” an official said, add- ing that it’s been clear since 2020 that only one ice sheet would be built. Although city officials also understand the importance of building an arena with two ice rinks so that the Friends could balance revenue with free programs, the current budget would not allow for both skating areas. But city officials also said the proposed design would allow an extra sheet of ice to be built in the future. The official said the city’s commitment to the project is best evidenced by its plans to move ahead even though the nonprofit fell short on its pledge to raise $5 million in private funds and at least $3 million before ground- breaking. (The nonprofit has raised $1.3 million.) But the advo- cacy’s group’s stated opposition could hamper the project. “I can’t say at this moment what’s going to happen,” the city official said. The National Park Service built the skating arena in 1976 as a bicentennial gift to the city but

also let it fall into a state of disre- pair. Skating enthusiasts came together to save the place and formed the nonprofit. Since leasing the venue in 1996, the Friends nonprofit has part- nered with city schools, offered free skating lessons, and hosted programs such as Kids On Ice and Special Olympics speed skating events. The Fort Dupont Cannons, the nation’s oldest minority youth hockey club, call its ice home. Though the rink serves the en- tire city, its location has been important for large numbers of children and families east of the Anacostia River. More than 60 percent of the children in its programs are Black, and more than half are girls, Willoughby said. “It is the best representation of Washington, D.C., that you will see: people from all walks of life — kids, families — and you’ve got the richest and poorest parents in the stands together watching their children interacting,” she said. “It really represents what we love about Washington, D.C.”

THE DISTRICT

Ice rink nonprofit accuses city of bungling plans for new arena

BY CHRISTINE CONDON

Nearly 50 headstones were
knocked over and damaged at the
St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic
Cemetery in Dundalk last week
just as Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine was about to begin,
church officials said Sunday.
Baltimore County Police are in-
vestigating the vandalism, said
Sgt. Gladys L. Brown, a spokes-
woman for the department.
Brown could not say whether
the incident is being investigated
as a hate crime, but the timing is
difficult to ignore, said cemetery
administrator Stephen Humeni-
uk. He received a call from a neigh-
bor of the cemetery Wednesday
alerting him to the damage, just
hours before Russia began attack-
ing Ukraine.
“The first thing you think is a
hate crime, but you can’t prove it,”
Humeniuk said. There was no
note, he added. “There was no
spray paint. Nothing to indicate
that. It was just the timing of the
incident and the crisis in Ukraine.”
“I thought to myself: ‘What else
could go wrong?’ ” said Humeni-
uk, who serves on the church
council for St. Michael the Archan-
gel Ukrainian Catholic Church in
Baltimore, which operates the
cemetery.
The damage was concentrated
in a back corner of the cemetery,
he said, relatively far from the
road. Dozens of headstones were
toppled, and some of them
cracked as a result. Some adorn-
ments on the stones were shat-
tered.
“To me, it was unprecedented
and it was intentional and it was a
hate crime — I’ll say it,” church
trustee John Wojtowycz said.
On Sunday, family members
surveyed the damage.
“We heard about the desecra-

tion of the cemetery earlier this week, and a number of us just wanted to go out there and see,” said Bohdan Oleksiuk, whose parents and grandparents are buried there. “It’s just so many headstones.” His family’s headstones were not damaged, but others weren’t so lucky. Dressed in a long black coat, Ola Kulnich stood near the cemetery fence, looking at her brother’s headstone, which had toppled backward, severed from its base. “It’s been a tough week,” Oleksi- uk said. “And it’s not going to get any easier.” Loeblein Memorials, located close to the cemetery, has offered to repair the damaged stones at no cost. The company, a division of

Tegeler Monument, placed many of the headstones in the cemetery, said company president Walter Tegeler. “The families — a lot of them — are all gone, so there’s no one to look after them,” Tegeler said of the headstones. “Most of them are going to be fixed relatively simply.” But any headstones shattered into multiple pieces may be beyond repair, he said. The cemetery is not open to the public and is protected by a locked gate, Humeniuk said, but there was a hole in its fencing. Church officials had patched previous holes, which they believed were created by children aiming to cut through the cemetery on their way to a middle school close by. Now, the church is looking into install-

ing security cameras on the prem- ises, Humeniuk said. Sunday morning, a Baltimore County police officer contacted Humeniuk to say that investiga- tors planned to search for finger- prints on the stones, he said. Now, Humeniuk is trying to notify as many affected families as he can. “Unfortunately, the cemetery’s been there since the 1950s, and a lot of the headstones that were affected were some of the original headstones when the cemetery first opened, so the families are long gone,” he said. Though his parents emigrated to the United States in the years following World War II, Humeni- uk still has several cousins in Ukraine. The messages from one of his cousins in western Ukraine,

recounting the family’s experi- ence, have been chilling. “Thank God the bombs are not falling yet,” one message read. “But fear exists. People are scurry- ing into stores and banks in fear of what’s to come.” “You feel helpless,” Humeniuk said. Huge explosions lit up the sky early Sunday south of the capital, Kyiv, where people hunkered down in homes, underground ga- rages and subway stations in an- ticipation of a full-scale assault by Russian forces. Russia has said its attack is aimed only at military targets, but bridges, schools and residential neighborhoods have been hit. Hundreds of Ukrainians and Russians have died, according to Ukrainian officials. Humeniuk said support from the community in Baltimore has provided a much-needed lift to the church, located just south of Pat- terson Park. As he lingered outside St. Michael on Sunday morning while a service was underway, several passersby approached him to offer support and asked where they could direct donations. The church plans to accept of- ferings through its website, Hu- meniuk said. The response to a recent fundraising pierogi sale was so overwhelming that many would-be customers were placed on a waitlist, according to the church’s Facebook page. “Due to the overwhelming response and outpouring of support, we received an overabun- dance of orders and therefore can- not take anymore,” the post read. Sunday morning at the church, after a supportive visit from Wil- liam Lori, the Catholic archbishop of Baltimore, parishioners board- ed a bus bound for a Washington rally in support of Ukraine. — Baltimore Sun

MARYLAND

Dozens of headstones vandalized at Ukrainian cemetery

AMY DAVIS/BALTIMORE SUN Ola Kulnich looks at her brother’s overturned headstone at the St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery in Dundalk. Almost 50 markers were toppled and damaged last week.

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