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‘No time to think, it happened so fast’
suffered a fatal gunshot wound. In fast.” “He’s Superman,” said Rich-
Officers who took down
interviews Monday, the three Moments before, Officer Jeffrey ards, 29. “Man of steel.”
members of the Pentagon Force Amos, 46, who was on patrol near “He’s a former Marine,” Amos
Pentagon shooter recall Protection Team involved in the the Metro station entrance, had added.
JOHN KELLY’S WASHINGTON
moments of mayhem
shooting outside the Pentagon decided to stretch his legs when The incident was, the officers
said Bedell, a 36-year-old Califor- he heard “a loud popping sound” said, the sort of harrowing, ran-
nian whose family said he had de- and thought, “That’s gunfire.” He dom attack they try to stay alert
Offender in the grass:
by Christian Davenport scended into paranoia, appeared started running toward the sound for — even at the end of a shift on
from out of nowhere and started and suddenly saw Bedell, holding what had been a normal Thursday
There was something about the firing wildly. a gun, running toward him. of checking identifications at the
The doody debate continues.
man in the blazer that wasn’t Even though Bedell was stand- Amos raised his UMP 40 sub- Pentagon entrance.
quite right — an intensity, a ner- ing just five feet away, he only machine gun and fired, and Be- All three officers are on routine
vousness — that told Officer Mar- managed to hit Carraway in the dell came crashing down, knock- administrative leave while inves-
I
did not set out to become the you shouldn’t get a dog. Buy a vin Carraway that “something thigh. Carraway, 44, said he re- ing over a metal railing. He was tigators look into the shooting,
Dostoevski of dog doo, the burlap shopping bag instead. was about to happen.” treated behind a bulletproof bar- pronounced dead later that eve- but they should be back at work
Proust of poop, the Faulkner Speaking of bags, Owen Smith A former Marine who served in rier while Bedell kept firing. Po- ning. Authorities said he had within a week, said Terry Suther-
of feces. But I appear to have, er, wrote: “I can’t help but wonder if the Persian Gulf War, Carraway lice said the shooter was carrying been shot in the head. land, a police spokesman. In the
stepped in it. people are finally running out of could sense it, he said. So he stood two 9mm semiautomatic hand- On Monday, all three officers meantime, they’re spending time
There has been an air of the surplus plastic bags they up to greet the man at the en- guns. Nearby, Officer Colin Rich- said they were thankful no one with their families.
desperation in many of the collected before the District trance to the Pentagon last Thurs- ards also ducked behind a barrier, else was hurt. “It could have been Amos, who has three children,
e-mails and phone calls I started charging 5 cents a bag. day evening, and that’s when and, as Bedell ran past them, the much worse,” Carraway said. said his youngest, a 5-year-old,
received after two recent Methinks maybe folks just don’t John Patrick Bedell pulled out a two officers returned fire. Amos’s shoulder was grazed by keeps asking: “Daddy, why are
columns on dog owners gun and started firing. “There was no time to think,” the gunfire. Carraway said a bul- they calling you a hero?”
who don’t clean up after Within moments, the gunman Carraway said, “it happened so let just broke the skin of his thigh. davenportc@washpost.com
their pets: What can we
do? But there has also been
an air of defiance among
those who responded to
my request that they
For same-sex couples in D.C., love and, today, marriage
Kids charity
explain why they don’t
pick up their dog’s messes.
“It is good fertilizer for
replaces
the ground,” explained one
reader. “The
Chinese/Vietnamese have
REUTERS
chapter’s
used human poop for their A super pooper, too? Giant George, a
rice paddies for centuries.” Great Dane, set a Guinness World
Wrote another: “I never Record as the tallest dog ever.
president
have [picked up poop] and
here’s why. I live in a D.C. suburb have the necessary plastic bags
with plenty of woods around. My anymore to do their civic duty.” by Mary Pat Flaherty
dog has been trained to go off the No excuse. I saw on Amazon
trail in the woods to do her that you can buy a case of 700 The local chapter of the Make-
business, where rain and biodegradable dog waste bags for a-Wish Foundation on Monday
bacteria and bugs dispose of this $20. That’s a year’s supply at 3 replaced its president after an in-
natural product in an cents a bag. vestigation by its national head-
ecologically sound manner. Several people took umbrage quarters into staff complaints
Where do people think all those at the outrage (or was it outrage about management style — and
plastic bags go? Into our at the umbrage?) expressed by on the heels of the resignations
environment, to virtually never the Capitol Hill resident who Friday of all but one of the 20-
decay. said he didn’t like dog owners person local board of directors.
“Please don’t use my name! I dropping their poop bags in his Catherine C. Martens’s depar-
have had a neighbor smear poop trash can. What’s the big deal? ture after a little more than two
on my front door in the mistaken they said. years as head of the Bethesda-
belief that it was my dog who Well, wrote Jo Williamson of based Mid-Atlantic chapter was
soiled her lawn!” Annapolis, “our trash collectors due to “unacceptable workplace
I can’t condone vigilante invariably leave their small gift conduct,” said national spokes-
justice (and the problem of of dog poop at the bottom of the man Paul Allvin from Phoenix. “It
off-leash dogs is a whole ’nother can, as they tend to just reach in did not involve financial impro-
issue), but I will say that the folks for the larger bags of trash, and prieties or the granting of wishes
charged with monitoring nature are on their way. On rainy days, or criminal conduct,” he said.
around here don’t think there’s this can be rather disgusting, as Late last year, the headquar-
anything “natural” about dog the rain collects in the bottom of ters reviewed staff complaints
waste. the can and turns the gift into about what they deemed a hostile
Danielle Wynne is an ecologist dog-poop soup.” work environment, according to
with Fairfax County, which has Your dog. Your poop. Your staff statements shared with re-
just unveiled a public service responsibility. viewers and The Washington
announcement urging owners to So, what can be done? My hope Post. The local chapter has ex-
clean up after their dogs. In is we can all be grown-ups about perienced high turnover, Allvin
Fairfax and many other local this, although more than one confirmed.
jurisdictions, she explained, person described encounters Martens, reached at home
trash is incinerated. “All of the such as this one from a Takoma Monday, declined to say whether
negative aspects of the dog waste Park reader, who has a neighbor she left voluntarily, “but I would
is gone,” Danielle told me. But who doesn’t clean up after his be happy to talk about this as it
when left in our streets, parks dog: “When I approached him to progresses.” She would not com-
and forests, dog poop — and the ask about his ongoing lack of ment on staff complaints.
harmful bacteria it harbors — [poop] control, I was treated to a The most recent tax returns for
washes into our streams and volley of screamed obscenities.” the local chapter shows Martens
then into the Chesapeake Bay. Perhaps she should carry Sec. earned $190,000 a year as presi-
In 2005, Fairfax and the U.S. 5-203 of Montgomery County’s dent. Last April, she also became
Geological Survey tested the Animal Control code: “An owner chairman of an umbrella group of
Accotink Creek watershed to see must not: Allow an animal to 21 local charities that broke away
exactly where E. coli damage or defecate on property from the local United Way and
contamination — a marker for a outside the owner’s property. An formed Community 1st. Martens,
stream’s overall health — was animal may defecate on public 59, said she retains that position.
coming from. Geese were the No. property . . . if the owner The local chapter covers the
1 offenders when it came to No. immediately removes and District, Maryland, Delaware and
2. But dog waste accounted for disposes of the feces by a Northern Virginia and has grant-
15 percent of the E. coli in the sanitary method approved by the ed about 330 wishes each of the
stream. “Definitely the dog waste Division.” past three years, according to na-
was a little surprising, to be at I’m happy to have this column tional records. It had public do-
15 percent,” Danielle said. “That posted to community message nations of $4.6 million in the fis-
is a bacteria source that should boards or tucked discreetly in cal year ending in August 30,
not be there.” neighbor’s mailboxes, because 2008.
And it would not be there if the bottom line is this: If you are
MARVIN JOSEPH/THE WASHINGTON POST
Susan Sewell, of the national
people collected their dogs’ poop. not picking up your dog’s poop, Ryan Spagnolo, from left, Liz Cooper, Vasiliy Kisunko and Josh Langdon of the Human Rights Campaign headquarters staff, will be inter-
If you are extremely worried you are wrong. prepare Monday for three couples’ ceremonies. Read about Angelisa Young and Sinjoyla Townsend, the im director.
about the environment, maybe kellyj@washpost.com first gay couple to apply for a license since same-sex unions became legal in the District, on C1. flahertym@washpost.com
LOCAL DIGEST
THE DISTRICT mitted that she did not pass led prosecution experts to con- fied. fare, Evan D. Gargiulo, 23, made
Guilty plea in killing
along testimony to Harrington’s
Shaken-baby case
clude that Albert had been both The suspect was described as a phone calls with Nazir’s cell-
attorney, Tom Dybdahl of the Another battle of medical ex- shaken and slammed into some- 27-year-old Hispanic man with phone and reported his own cell-
A District man pleaded guilty District’s Public Defender Serv- perts is shaping up in Fairfax thing. light skin, short cropped black phone and wallet stolen to D.C.
Monday to second-degree mur- ice. County over “shaken baby syn- Butorac said Ronald H. Uscin- hair and brown eyes. He was last police but never reported shoot-
der charges in a 2007 stabbing, — Keith L. Alexander drome,” this time in the case of a ski, a Georgetown neurosurgeon seen wearing bluejeans and a ing Nazir, Fairfax Chief Deputy
just one day before he was sched- man accused of killing his 8- and prominent critic of shaken gray sweater with the lettering Commonwealth’s Attorney Ian
uled to face a retrial in the case. VIRGINIA month-old son. baby syndrome, will testify for “ECKO” on the front. M. Rodway said.
The first case was dismissed be- Anyone who observes any sus- Gargiulo initially claimed that
cause an assistant U.S. attorney
Ex-teacher convicted
A murder trial began Monday Midence. Midence’s panic-strick-
for Elmer J. Midence, 39, who en 911 call was played for the jury picious activity in this area is Nazir had tried to attack him be-
admitted withholding evidence A former Fauquier County called 911 in March 2009 to re- at the trial’s outset Monday. asked to contact the Sheriff’s Of- cause Gargiulo didn’t have the
from defense attorneys. middle school teacher was con- port that he had fallen after step- — Tom Jackman fice at 703-777-1021. $130 fare for a trip from a Wash-
Joseph Harrington, 31, of victed Monday of filming himself ping out of the shower while — Martin Weil ington nightclub to Gargiulo’s
Southeast Washington had been engaging in sexual activity with a holding his son, Albert. Doctors
charged in the Aug. 18, 2007, student in his classroom and at at Inova Fairfax Hospital found
Stabbing in Loudoun
Reston apartment, and then to
Gargiulo’s parked vehicle at the
stabbing death of Charles Smith his home, prosecutors said. that Albert had a subdural hema- A man was stabbed and seri-
Man claims insanity
Rotunda apartment complex in
in a street robbery. Prosecutors Scott C. Howe, 34, was found toma and retinal hemorrhages, ously wounded Monday in the A man accused of fatally shoot- Tysons Corner.
had charged Harrington with guilty in U.S. District Court in Al- and “the two together spell ‘shak- Sterling area of Loudoun County, ing a cabdriver in Tysons Corner Renowned psychologist Stan-
four counts, including first-de- exandria of producing child por- en baby,’ ” Assistant Common- and a search was underway for is claiming he was insane at the ton Samenow, who often testifies
gree murder. nography. He faces at least 15 wealth’s Attorney Kathryn S. his assailant, authorities said. time and will have one of the against defendants making an
Harrington faces eight years in years in prison when he is sen- Swart said. Albert died two days The stabbing occurred about 4 country’s top psychologists in insanity claim, examined Gargiu-
prison. tenced June 4. later, and Swart said his injuries p.m. on Forest Ridge Drive, and criminal behavior testify on his lo and found that he was “psy-
He was scheduled to appear Prosecutors said Howe, who were inconsistent with a fall. the attacker was thought to be on behalf. chologically destabilized,” de-
before D.C. Superior Court Judge was a science teacher at Cedar Deputy Fairfax Public Defend- foot in the area, said Kraig Trox- Mazhar Nazir, 49, was found fense attorney Steven Garver
Frederick H. Weisberg on Tues- Lee Middle School, used a video er Dawn M. Butorac said Mi- ell, a spokesman for the Loudoun dead of a bullet wound to the said, and “was unable to distin-
day for a second trial. Last year, camera to film the sexual activity dence loved his son and had no County Sheriff’s Office. back of the head, sitting in the guish right from wrong as a re-
during Harrington’s first trial, with the male student, who was history of abusing him. She said He said authorities think that driver’s seat of his cab near a sult of that mental illness.”
Weisberg declared a mistrial af- 14 and 15 at the time. the baby had a bruise on the side the suspect and the victim knew parking garage on Greensboro — Tom Jackman
ter the prosecutor on the case ad- — Jerry Markon of his head, which she said later each other. Neither was identi- Drive on Nov. 2, 2008. His last
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