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A Deadly Turn At Intersection With History of Pedestrian Peril
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"Then I flipped on WTOP News and heard about the accident at Seventh and Pennsylvania," he said. "It was two female pedestrians. My world crashed right there."
Schoenborn called the police. One of the women had died at the scene, he was told, and the other had been taken to George Washington University Hospital. But they had not been identified, so Schoenborn raced for the emergency room. By the time he arrived, his wife was dead, and all that remained for him to do was identify her body, he said.
The couple were married 2 1/2 years ago, Schoenborn said yesterday at their apartment, where he spent the afternoon chain-smoking -- something his wife never let him do in the house -- surrounded by friends. The walls, shelves and side tables were decorated with wedding pictures.
Another snapshot showed Martha Schoenborn's daughter, Kim Pifer, 35, who lives in Raleigh, N.C., and was on her way to Alexandria last night.
The Schoenborns never got over their honeymoon phase, he said -- dancing, cooking, listening to music together. "We would sit there and talk all night," he said. "I just wanted to inhale her all the time."
By 3 p.m. yesterday, Schoenborn's grief was turning into frustration. No one from Metro or Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's office had called to express their regrets or condolences, he said, nor had police told him where he could retrieve his wife's body and her belongings.
"I don't know when I'm going to get her back," he said. "I just want my wife back."
Staff writers Henri E. Cauvin and Clarence Williams contributed to this report.
