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Two Teens Shot and Wounded at Go-Go Club
Two 15-year-olds were shot yesterday outside a go-go club at the wholesale produce market in Northeast Washington, according to D.C. police. Both suffered non-life-threatening wounds.
Shortly after 6 p.m., two groups of teenagers in the Market Lounge on Fifth Street NE started arguing, police said. The club operators asked the patrons, about 200 in all, to leave.
After the patrons left the club, someone opened fire, striking a teenage girl in a leg and a teenage boy in a hand, said D.C. police spokesman Quintin Peterson. Fights also broke out outside the club, Peterson said, and a 15-year-old youth was pistol-whipped. No one had been charged late last night in the shootings.
-- Allan Lengel
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D.C. Officer Receives Suspended Sentence
A D.C. police officer was handed a suspended sentence yesterday and ordered to pay restitution for filing a false insurance claim, according to Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr.
Calvin L. Roots, 40, of Forestville was given a two-year suspended sentence, and as part of a plea agreement, agreed to resign from the police department, where he had worked for 17 years.
According to Curran, Roots reported to his insurance company that his pickup truck was stolen and inflated its value, resulting in an overpayment of $3,059. He was ordered to return that money to his insurance company. He also submitted a false invoice for a car stereo that supposedly was in the truck, according to Curran.
