A woman was sexually assaulted at knifepoint in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Northwest Washington when she got into the wrong car, D.C. police said Sunday.
The incident occurred between 3:30 a.m. and 4 a.m. Saturday in the 3500 block of Macomb Street NW, the police said.
They said the woman got into a silver-colored sedan that she mistook for an Uber vehicle.
After she got into the car, the driver drew a knife and assaulted her, the police said. They said she escaped without further injury.
— Martin Weil
A large fire burned through a Beltsville home early Sunday, injuring one resident and two firefighters, Prince George’s County authorities said.
Investigators think the fire, which pictures show engulfing the entire roof of the single-family home on Old Baltimore Pike, began on the deck just before 4 a.m. and quickly spread to the rest of the house.
The cause of the fire remained unknown late Sunday. It displaced both of the adult residents, whose identities were not immediately released.
A firefighter suffered minor burns, and the other two injuries were minor sprains.
— Terrence McCoy
Montgomery County police are investigating a crash in Bethesda that left a motorcyclist dead Sunday afternoon.
Police responded to a call of the crash about 1 p.m. The circumstances surrounding the crash at Old Georgetown Road and Lone Oak Drive remained unclear. Authorities have not identified the victim.
— Terrence McCoy
A hunting guide was shot and killed Saturday on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in what authorities said was an accident.
Marvin Bowen Coppage, 75, of Henderson, Md., was killed in Queen Anne’s County by a shotgun blast from a client as he and his dog were flushing a bird from brush during a guided hunt for pheasant and chukar, the Maryland Natural Resources Police said. Chukar is a game bird in the pheasant family.
The police said they thought that the blast came from the gun of a 14-year-old boy who was a member of the hunting party that had hired Coppage.
— Martin Weil
