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THE DISTRICT
Southeast block sees
2 slayings in 24 hours
A 33-year-old man was fatally
shot Thursday on the 2300 block
of Green Street SE, the second
homicide reported on that block
in less than 24 hours.
D.C. police said they found
Treyvon Green of Southeast
suffering from gunshot wounds
inside a residence just before 9:30
a.m. He died at the scene.
On Wednesday, D.C. police
responded to reports of a
shooting on that block. Davon
Sullivan, 24, died at the scene.
— Emily Davies
Man fatally shot on
Georgia Avenue
A 48-year-old man was fatally
shot in Northwest Washington
early Friday, D.C. police said.
He is David Boyd of Northwest.
Just after midnight Friday,
police went to the 5000 block of
Georgia Avenue NW a fter reports
of gunfire. They found Boyd with
a gunshot wound; he was
pronounced dead at a hospital.
— Emily Davies
MARYLAND
Glenn Dale man dies in
Pr. George’s shooting
One person was fatally shot
late Thursday in Prince George’s
County. Police identified the
victim as Javon Washington, 33,
of Glenn Dale.
The shooting occurred near
Enterprise and Annapolis roads
in the Bowie area, police said.
Officers responded to a hospital
about 11 p.m. for a report of a
gunshot victim who was driven in
by a private vehicle, p olice said.
According to an initial
investigation, a black SUV drove
up next to Washington’s car while
it was stopped at a light and a
person inside the SUV fired
multiple shots, police said.
Washington was taken to a
hospital, where he was
pronounced dead.
— Dana Hedgpeth
and Jasmine Hilton
VIRGINIA
Motorist killed in
Ashburn area wreck
A driver was killed in a
collision Thursday in the
Ashburn area. The crash occurred
around 11:20 a.m. at Windmill
Drive and Claiborne Parkway,
according to the Loudoun County
Sheriff’s Office.
Officials said the driver of a
Honda Civic was traveling on
Windmill Drive and hit a vehicle
traveling on Claiborne Parkway.
The Honda driver, D eborah
Mitchel, 65, of Ashburn, was
taken to a hospital, where she
died, officials said. The driver of
the other vehicle, a man, was
taken to a hospital.
The sheriff’s office said there is
no indication that alcohol, drugs
or use of a cellphone contributed
to the crash.
— Dana Hedgpeth
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Mostofsky’s family asked that
he serve his term at a mini-
mum-security branch of the Fed-
eral Correctional Institution in
Otisville, N.Y., which the judge
agreed to recommend and gave
the defendant 30 days to report.
Mostofsky told a friend his
costume was meant to announce
that even a “cave man” would
know the 2020 presidential elec-
tion was stolen.
Addressing the court, Mostof-
sky asked for mercy and ex-
plained what he said were a
series of “bad decisions that day,”
where he witnessed police using
crowd-dispersal munitions such
as tear gas, pepper spray, stun
grenades and rubber bullets.
“I should have walked away,
but I walked toward the barriers.
I pushed back, I should not have
done that,” Mostofsky said.
Mostofsky said he should not
have entered the Capitol and did
not intend to cause harm or
interfere.
“I am ashamed of my contribu-
tion to the chaos of that day, and I
apologize to members of Con-
gress, all of their employees, and
to the Capitol police officers that
were in attendance,” he said.
Mostofsky was the first Jan. 6
defendant to be sentenced on a
felony rioting charge, which is
punishable by up to five years in
prison, and his sentence will help
set a benchmark for about 200
others facing similar counts if
they are convicted.
He pleaded guilty on Feb. 2 to
that count and two misdemeanor
charges of theft of government
property and trespassing on re-
stricted grounds, each punish-JAN. 6 FROM B1able by up to a year in jail.
Boasberg’s sentence roughly
split the difference between a
15-month prison term sought by
prosecutors and home detention
requested by his defense. Pros-
ecutors dropped charges of as-
saulting police and obstructing
Congress’s certification of Joe
Biden’s election victory.
Photographs and video
showed Mostofsky among the
first wave of rioters who pushed
through bike racks and a handful
of police officers at Peace Monu-
ment Circle on the northwestCapitol grounds to overrun a
police line at the Lower West
Terrace, to enter the building,
and to pursue U.S. Capitol Police
Officer Eugene Goodman up a
staircase toward the entrance to
U.S. Senate chambers, Justice De-
partment trial attorney Michael
J. Romano said.
Just outside the Senate,
Mostofsky was photographed
and interviewed by a New York
Post reporter, where he indicated
that he believed his views justi-
fied his crimes and encouraged
others to follow suit, Romanosaid.
Defense attorney Nicholas
Smith said his New York client
was remorseful, “quirky even by
the standards of his home city,”
and a man who many in letters to
the court attested was kind, gen-
tle and generous. He baked cook-
ies for care packages given to city
workers, first responders and
homeless shelters.
“In nonmedical Yiddish, this
type of character is summarized
as a luftmensch, a man whose
head is in the clouds,” Smith
wrote of Mostofsky, who was
born to an Orthodox Jewish fam-
ily and whose mother died when
he was infant. Smith said the
charges and felony conviction
brought “profound and lasting
shame on Mostofsky and his
family” and, together with his
conviction, were punishment
enough when combined with
home confinement and proba-
tion.
Boasberg agreed, to a point,
saying in court “I would have
given you more [jail time] had I
not discounted a number of
months for all of the good that I
have read about you,” including
undisclosed findings of what the
judge called a “narrow psychiat-
ric exam.”
But the judge said the core of
democracy in the United States is
the peaceful transition of power
after free and fair elections to
those elected, “not those installed
by violence or insurrection.”
Alluding to the Russian inva-
sion of Ukraine, Boasberg
warned, “We are reminded by
events in Europe, if our system
enshrines violence and not the
ballot box” as an appropriate
means to power, “who are we to
object to others who seek to
impose their will by might?”Judge laments man’s ‘stolen-election fantasy’MANUEL BALCE CENETA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Aaron Mostofsky, right, who referred to himself as a “cave man” eager to protest Donald Trump’s
presidential election loss, was sentenced to eight months in prison. Mostofsky told a friend his costume
was meant to show that even a “cave man” would know the election had been stolen.Mostofsky’s sentencewill help set abenchmark for about200 others facingsimilar counts if theyare convicted.“They’re carriers,” Broaddus
said, “but the genetic sequence
has the potential to make domes-
tic birds much, much sicker.”
Broaddus said the larger
farms that have hens producing
eggs that “end up in the super-
market” tend to be large-scale
operations, where the flu can
spread quickly. Sometimes, he
said, chickens at farms become
infected when a farmer or work-
er “accidentally tracks through
goose droppings near a pond”
and then brings it into the chick-
en facility.
“It takes just one to be infected
before they spread it to others,”
Broaddus said.
Many wild birds don’t always
show signs of the virus, but it canBIRD FLU FROM B1 be easily transmitted between
birds through their droppings or
through respiratory secretions,
experts said.Agricultural officials at the
Delaware-Maryland HPAI Joint
Information Center said theywere concerned about the vul-
tures, because they’re scavengers
and “if they eat a bird infected
with avian influenza, whether it’s
a migratory bird such as a Cana-
dian goose, other waterfowl, or
another vulture, they will ingest
the virus and then can get sick
and die.”
“We want to ensure they are
taking steps to stop the spread of
the virus so that they don’t
inadvertently transport it to oth-
er areas heavily populated with
wild birds,” said Stacey Hof-
mann, a spokeswoman for the
joint command center.
Officials with the command
centers in Maryland and Virginia
said they have response teams to
quickly “take action” to try to
stop the spread of the bird flu
and are encouraging farmers tobe “proactive in ensuring vul-
tures do not stop at their farms.”
The high number of black
vultures found in the wild in
Harford County is particularly
alarming to some experts, be-
cause it means the birds are
spreading the virus as they’re
eating carcasses.
“That’s a lot of vultures to get
the bird flu at once,” said Dan
Rauch, the wildlife biologist for
the District. “Vultures travel to
where their food sources are, so
they’re moving all over the place.
“They feed together and roost
together, so that allows this high-
ly pathogenic disease to spread
quickly,” he said. The birds then
“shed the virus through their
saliva, mucus and feces.”
“It gets into the community
and sticks around,” Rauch said.“It’s not good.”
Agriculture experts at the joint
command center in Maryland
and Delaware advised the public
to “help limit the spread of the
disease by not moving bird drop-
pings via their shoes to other
wild-bird habitats.” People should
also change their shoes and clean
off dirty shoes after they’ve visit-
ed a wild or natural area.
Experts said “spraying the bot-
toms of your shoes with a com-
mon household cleaner such as
Lysol or a dilute bleach spray will
kill the avian influenza virus,” a
command center statement said.
For those with pet birds or
poultry at home, officials recom-
mend you “wash your hands,
change clothes, and clean your
shoes after visiting areas where
wild birds frequent.”Bird flu found in chickens on 6 a rea farms; 80 black vultures dead“They’re carriers, butthe genetic sequence hasthe potential to makedomestic birds much,much sicker.”
Charlie Broaddus, Virginia state
veterinarian, on wild ducks and geeseBY OVETTA WIGGINSMaryland House Speaker Adri-
enne A. Jones (D-Baltimore) is
throwing her support behind au-
thor and former nonprofit chief
Wes Moore in his bid to become
the state’s next governor.
Jones, the highest-ranking
elected woman in Maryland and
one of the most influential Black
elected officials in the state, is
expected to announce her en-
dorsement Saturday morning in
Baltimore County, which she rep-
resents.
Jones, according to prepared
remarks provided to The Wash-
ington Post, calls Moore the “best
person to lead Maryland,” de-
scribing him as an innovator who
is service-minded and has experi-
ence in leadership.
She also describes him as the
best option Democrats have to
recapture the governor’s mansion
from Republicans, who have won
three of the past five elections.
“For 12 of the last 20 years, wehave had a Republican Governor
sit in on the second floor of the
State House and make decisions
about you, your family, your job,
your future,” according to Jones’s
speech. “Let me be clear that this
is not about party — it is about
values.”
Jones, who has long criticized
Hogan’s positions on education
and public safety, says Maryland
needs someone who will partner
with the General Assembly to
“further protect a woman’s right
to her own health care ... make
sure every child has a world class
teacher, a safe classroom and a
path toward a family supporting
job, ... (and) tackle crime with
more than just slogans and prom-
ises of more jail time.”
Jones is the latest top elected
official in Maryland to back
Moore in the Democratic pri-
mary. Her support could bring
needed resources and an Election
Day ground game to Moore, who
is making his first run for office.
In March, Moore won the cov-eted endorsement of Prince
George’s County Executive An-
gela Alsobrooks (D). Late last
month, he gained the backing of
U.S. House Majority Leader Steny
H. Hoyer (D-Md.).
Hoyer said he initially did not
plan to endorse anyone during
the primary, but Moore’s candida-
cy persuaded him he should get
involved. “In Wes, I see a leader
who can tap into the minds of
young people and set them
aflame,” Hoyer said during an
event at Bowie State University, a
historically Black university.
“Over 50 years, I’ve seen a lot of
candidates. Wes Moore is unique,
unlike others. He’s uniquely situ-
ated to bring a message of hope.”
Last month, Moore has also
picked up endorsements from
former NAACP president Ben
Jealous and from the Maryland
State Education Association, the
state’s largest teachers union.
Ten Democrats have filed to
succeed term-limited Gov. Larry
Hogan (R).MARYLANDGubernatorial candidate Wes Mooreto get house speaker’s endorsementBY MARTIN WEILIt rained in the morning on
Friday, and it rained in the after-
noon. Then, in the evening, it
began to rain again.
In its propensity to precipitate,
Friday seemed similar to the first
five days of May. Three of the
month’s first five days saw rain.
At a time when parts of the
United States find themselves af-
flicted by drought, Washington
seems a rainmaking place.
Even in those Friday hours
when no rain fell at the official
measuring spot, the city seemed
an environment in which rain
either had fallen, or trembled on
the verge of falling.
They may sing of the liquidity
of April. But recent days show
May more than capable in the
drizzle and downpour depart-
ment.
By 5 p.m. on Friday we had
recorded 1.3 inches of rain this
month. That is more than 70 per-
cent above average for the date.It is after all, spring, and a
season of soft spring rains. In-
deed, a green spring, such as we
have been experiencing, may re-
quire just such gentle irrigation.
Friday gave us fog, and mist.
Our landscape seemed a brooding
study in gray and green. Gray for
the skies above, green, often a
rich, dark green, for the trees and
lawns that surrounded us.
In the afternoon, streets
seemed damp with the signs of
the morning rain. Shallow pud-
dles seemed to fill low places on
pavements. Droplets clung to
leaves, but occasionally fell, rip-
pling the dark puddles.
But after dark, a glance at radar
images showed blotches of color,
irregularly shaped, said to repre-
sent deluge, downpour, and possi-
ble trouble, all headed our way.
As a moistly overcast night fell
in Washington, it seemed to the
untrained eye, that benign as the
daytime rain had appeared, more
and perhaps far harder rain
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