Police have arrested a man in the killing of a female security guard in Southeast Washington.
Jadohn Bracey, 22, of Temple Hills, Md., was charged with first-degree murder while armed. Bracey had not yet made his initial court appearance on Wednesday and it could not be determined whether he has an attorney.
The shooting occurred the night of Sept. 21, 2021, in the 3300 block of 10th Place SE, in the Congress Heights neighborhood and near the Oak Hill apartments — an area police described as having crime problems. Capt. Kevin Kentish, a supervisor in the D.C. police homicide unit, said the guard, 41-year-old Angela Washington, was armed and on duty the night of the shooting.About 8:40 p.m., Kentish said, D.C. officers heard multiple gunshots and went to investigate. He said Washington was “responding to those very same sounds of gunshots that our officers heard, and was inadvertently struck.”Washington had lived in Suitland and was the mother of four children between the ages of 16 and 21 years old.
Her official title was “special police officer.” Special police officers are security guards licensed by the District who have arrest powers limited to specific properties. Most, as did Washington, work for private companies that contract out their services to businesses. Washington’s aunt said last year that she had talked with her niece before her final shift. “She knew she had a dangerous job,” the aunt, Barbara Simms, said then. “But she really loved what she did.”
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