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Ivey said he could not comment on what evidence had been gath- ered because of ethics rules gov- erning what he can say during an active case.


Bellard and Gilmer are ac-


cused of killing Dawn Yvette Brooks, 38; Mwasiti Sikyala, 41; Shayla Shante Sikyala, 3; and Shakur Sylvester Sikyala, 4. Brooks was the children’s moth- er, and Mwasiti Sikyala was their paternal aunt, authorities said. All lived in the 6800 block of Third Street in the Lanham area, where their bodies were discov- ered about 3 a.m. Friday in an apartment amid piles of trash and debris. “It certainly does grab and pull


at the heartstrings,” Ivey said. “Certainly, this is a crime that’s shocking to the community.” Police have said that Bellard shot the four victims execution- style, firing multiple bullets into each one, and that Gilmer blocked their escape. According to charging documents made public Monday, officers found one of the women lying on the floor near the entrance of a bed- room and the other three victims lying on the bed. Police were called to the scene by a male witness who said he found a woman lying on the floor in a pool of blood, according to the charging documents. Bellard was taken into custody at or near the scene, and Gilmer was taken into custody elsewhere, appar- ently trying to flee to Texas, sources have said. Ivey said investigators were probing why the family was liv- ing in such squalid conditions — in a dilapidated apartment above a garage with no toilet, running


water or air conditioning. Police have said they removed tons of trash from the property and found containers of human feces. Charging documents confirmed that both suspects admitted their involvement in the crime, which law enforcement sources have said stemmed from a dispute over a drug debt the women failed to pay. Court records obtained by The


Washington Post on Monday show that Brooks had a history of substance abuse problems. In 2003, the records show, her mother petitioned the court for custody of two of her children who were not slain, saying that her daughter was “homeless” and a “continued substance abuser.” “Defendant is a homeless ad-


dict, and has been moving from place to place,” the mother, Cath- erine Brooks Sheldon, wrote in a 2003 filing. She could not be reached for comment Monday. Family members of Brooks and


Sikyala continued to decline re- quests for comment Monday. Relatives of Bellard and Gilmer could not be reached, though Bel- lard’s brother said Saturday that he had not been able to talk to Bellard about what happened. The brother, Waylon Bellard, said his family was related to the vic- tims by marriage and was still struggling to cope with what had happened.


Bellard and Gilmer said in


court Monday they would seek the advice of a lawyer. Love, the judge, referred them to a public defender for their next scheduled hearing next month. zapotoskym@washpost.com


Staff writers Ruben Castaneda, Dan Morse and Rick Rojas contributed to this report.


Trustee Sale Notices HARVEY WEST AUCTIONEERS, INC.


5335 WISCONSIN AVENUE, N.W., SUITE 440 WASHINGTON, DC 20015 202-463-4567


SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE OF VALUABLE CONDOMINIUM UNIT KNOWN AS:


3000 7th STREET, NE, UNIT 322 “UNIVERSITY HALL CONDOMINIUM” WASHINGTON, D.C. 20017


Pursuant to District of Columbia Condominium Act of 1976, Section 313 and Declaration of Condominium dated September 17, 1980 and recorded September 18, 1980 as Instrument No. 29819 and the By-Laws dated September 17, 1980 and recorded SEPTEMBER 19, 1980 as Instrument Number 29820 and as amended and in accordance with Public Law 90-566 and D.C. Code Section 42-1903.13, as amended, notice filed JUNE 19, 2009 and at the request of the Substitute Trustee for the Condominium, shall sell at public auction ON AUGUST 17, 2010 AT 12:00 P.M. within the office of: HARVEY WEST AUCTIONEERS, INC., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, the Part of the land conveyed being more particularly designated as UNIT 322 in the Condominium known as “UNIVERSITY HALL CONDOMINIUM”, according to the Declaration of Condominium dated September 17, 1980 and recorded September 19, 1980 as Instrument No. 29819, as amended and the By-Laws of Condominium dated September 17, 1980 and recorded on September 19, 1980 as Instrument No. 29820, as amended among the Land Records of the District of Columbia, and as per plat recorded in the Office of the Surveyor for the District of Columbia in Condominium Book 26 at page 37. Together with an undivided percentage share interest in the Common Elements of said “UNIVERSITY HALL CONDOMINIUM”, as set forth in said Declaration of Condominium and the Exhibits thereto. Said condominium project is situate on Lot (1) in Square (3645) in the subdivision made by Edwin B. Feldman, as per plat recorded in Liber (152) at folio (44), in the office of the Surveyor for the District of Columbia Said property now being known for purposes of assessment and taxation as Lot 2067 in Square 3645. The said improvements consist of a condominium unit located at 3000 7th Street, NE, Unit 322, Washington, D.C. 20017 (the “Property”). While this information as to the nature and description or use of the Property has been obtained from sources deemed reliable and is believed to be accurate, no representations are made as to the presence, absence, development status or condition of improvements on or about the Property.


TERMS OF SALE: The Property will be sold in “AS IS” condition, without warranty, either express or implied, with respect to the nature and description of the improvements contained therein; and subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record which affect the same, if any, and subject to existing mortgages or Deed(s) of Trust in accordance with the District of Columbia Condominium Act, the outstanding balance of which will be announced at the time of sale if made available to the Trustees by such holders of prior mortgages or deeds of trusts and real estate taxes, if any; the purchase price above said trust(s) to be paid in cash. Also sold subject to any other prior liens, encumbrances and municipal assessments, if any, further particulars of which may be announced at time of sale, if known. A deposit of $10,000.00 will be required at time of sale, such deposit to be in cash, certified check or in such other form as the Substitute Trustee for the Condominium may require in his/her sole discretion. All conveyancing, recording, recordation tax, transfer, etc. at purchasers cost. The balance of the purchase price, together with interest at the rate of 15% per annum from date of sale to date of receipt of the balance of the purchase price, must be paid in cash or by cashier’s certified check and all other term to be complied with within 30 days, otherwise deposit is forfeited and the property may be re-advertised and sold at the discretion of the Condominium and at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. The Condominium shall convey a deed pursuant to D.C. code Section 42-1903.13(c) (1) and (3) as amended and make no further representations of warranties as to title. Purchaser agrees to pay $250.00 at settlement to the seller's attorney, for review and/ or preparation of the settlement documents. The Condominium cannot guarantee clear title or the purchaser’s ability to obtain title insurance. For this reason, the purchaser may not be able to obtain financing and therefore, must be able to pay the purchase balance in full within 30 days. The Condominium reserves the right in its sole discretion to rescind the sale at any time until conveyance of the deed. In the event of failure on the part of the Condominium to convey such deed, the purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit.


The Trustees reserve the right to: (1) accept or reject any and all bids in their sole discretion; (2) withdraw the Property from the sale prior to acceptance of the final bid; and (3) postpone or cancel the sale.


Neither the Trustee nor any other party make any warranty or representation of any kind or nature regarding the physical or environmental condition of the description of or title to the Property.


JENNIFER L. KNEELAND, ESQ., BRIAN D. BICHY, ESQ., Substitute Trustees


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BILL O’LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST “It’s not easy to get young people interested” in learning, Raymond Bell, center right, says of his program. Training for a job, and life bell from B1


A+ certification once course work is completed this month. The students were not paid for


their attendance or reimbursed for travel expenses. Volunteers were recruited by Bell to teach the project’s courses and manage stu- dent services. The training location was do-


nated by Union Temple Baptist Church. Sixteen students received a refurbished laptop computer to complete assignments. “You’ve got to go out and find the resourc- es,” Bell said. “We’ve been able to convince people to get involved without compensation. That’s why we haven’t needed as much money.” Classes meet three days a week


at a makeshift training facility on the second level of a rowhouse in the 1200 block of Pleasant Street SE. Bell has two rules for stu- dents: Be on time for class every day, and keep absences to a mini- mum. “It’s not easy to get young peo- ple interested,” Bell said. “Some of our kids, it takes unique situa- tions for them to embrace learn- ing.”


No excuses allowed


It’s been a topsy-turvy year in which frustrations have bubbled over. Bell threatened to kick some students out and then did so. One of his students was robbed after class, a reminder of the dangers that many face daily. Bell had to keep students from losing focus.


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When classes resumed from winter break in January, no one had finished a homework assign- ment that had been due in mid- December. “Your future is on the line,” Sophia Mason, director of


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student services for HOPE Proj- ect, told the students. “We’re not taking any more excuses.” A test was scheduled, and those who failed to get 70 percent cor- rect faced dismissal. On the day of the test, students took their customary seats at five rectangular tables crammed to- gether to form work spaces. Bell scanned the silent room through his wire-framed glasses. “Today, we gon’ separate the boys from the men,” he said with a slight smile, “and the girls from the women.” “You got to know the terminol-


ogy,” Bell said. “You just can’t make it up as you go along.” Those who failed, Bell said, would receive an e-mail with in- structions to return their laptops the next day. Some stayed up all night and queried whether class- mates had gotten the dreaded no- tification. No one did. “They’ve come a long way,” Bell said, sounding like a proud par- ent. “We’ve convinced people that they could do much better.”


‘I’m ready to survive’ One of those students is Antho-


ny Ingram, 19, who had been headed for trouble. In February 2009, he pleaded guilty to second- degree assault and possession of a handgun for an incident that oc- curred at a party in Prince George’s County. Ingram said he had a “different vision of life” for himself, so he at- tended an information session last year at Ballou High School at the suggestion of his mother. “I saw he was trying to help young adults,” Ingram said of Bell’s proj- ect. Initially, Ingram struggled to speak in front of his classmates.


Bell knew this and called on him first as a challenge. Getting to class on time was an- other issue. In March, Ingram showed up late again and Bell had to stop his lecture to answer the door. He opened it, told Ingram that he would not be allowed in- side and shut the door. Bell had dismissed five stu- dents since January. Ingram was close to becoming the sixth. “You build relationships with these kids after spending that amount of time,” he said. “But they all take ownership of why they have to leave.” For Ingram, being dismissed meant there was a possibility he could go to jail. As his court hear- ing approached in March, Ingram knew he didn’t want that. At the hearing, he told the judge about the project and how he’d learned to make better decisions, some- thing he doubts he could have done before the program. “I really felt proud,” Ingram said. He was sentenced to house ar- rest for a year plus three years of probation, but Ingram is hopeful about his future. One of the few places he is allowed to go is Bell’s program. So, for now, a job will have to wait. “I’m ready to get a job and start


my career,” he said. “I’m ready to survive and get on my own . . . so I can be ready for that grown-man status.”


Bell wants the same thing. So


far, only two students have found jobs in information technology. Others who were already em- ployed have gotten better jobs. A few remain unemployed. But Bell said he hopes to expand and con- tinue preparing young people for meaningful jobs. “I’m trying to of- fer another alternative,” he said. wilsontj@washpost.com


Police account of dog shooting disputed


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Owner says deputies didn’t knock before entering Md. home


by Ruben Castaneda


A Forest Heights woman dis- puted the official account of the incident in which her dog was shot to death Friday by Prince George’s County sheriff ’s depu- ties who had gone to her home to serve an eviction notice. In a statement, the sheriff ’s de-


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partment said that deputies knocked on the front and back doors of the home and made a commotion, but they received no response indicating that a dog was present. But Donya Williams, 38, said Monday that her 2 1⁄2


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Rottweiler, Kato, barked whenev- er anyone knocked on the door or walked by outside. “I don’t believe they” knocked, Williams said at a news confer- ence outside the Prince George’s courthouse in Upper Marlboro. “He would have barked.” Williams said Kato would be alive if deputies had waited for county animal control officials. According to the sheriff ’s de-


partment statement, the depu- ties had called animal control of- ficers to restrain the dog. They had been told by the landlord that the dog was kept in a crate in a basement, the statement said. But the officers, apparently thinking the dog was not in the home, did not wait for animal control officers. As the deputies went through the home, the Rottweiler “charged them from an unknown location. Due to being in a con- fined space, with no place to re- treat, the deputy discharged his


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firearm to protect himself and his partner from serious bodily harm,” the statement said. Asked to respond to Williams’s claim that the deputies had failed to knock before entering the home, spokeswoman Sgt. Ya- keisha Hines said, “That’s her opinion.” Hines said that the deputies had been trained how to enter a home where a dog might be pre- sent and that she was confident they knocked before entering. She said it would not have mat- tered if the deputies had waited for animal control officials, be- cause the deputies would have entered first. Deputies search homes to make sure they are safe before allowing civilians inside, Hines said. The deputy who shot the dog is on administrative leave with pay while the sheriff ’s department in- vestigates the incident, she said. The sheriff ’s department was criticized two years ago after members of its SWAT unit stormed the home of the Berwyn Heights mayor and fatally shot his two black Labradors during a botched drug raid. Authorities said Mayor Cheye


Calvo’s home was raided because a package of marijuana had been delivered there. Authorities later acknowledged that the mayor and his wife had nothing to do with the delivery and were not involved in drug trafficking. An internal investigation by the sheriff ’s department found no wrongdoing by the deputies who killed Calvo’s dogs. Williams, an executive assis- tant for a national association in the District, said she was hospi- talized for post-traumatic stress for two days after the shooting. She said she had spoken with Sheriff Michael A. Jackson.


Williams said Jackson told her


that he was sorry but that his deputies did what they had to. “He’s already told me he be-


lieves they did the right thing” before the investigation is com- plete, Williams said. Jackson did not respond to a call seeking comment. castanedar@washpost.com


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LOCAL DIGEST THE DISTRICT


Wone widow seeks roommates’ records


The widow of a lawyer killed in 2006 is seeking the phone and e- mail records of three romantical- ly linked men who lived in the townhouse where he was stabbed. Lawyers for Katherine Wone want a judge to subpoena such records from roughly a month be- fore and a month after Robert Wone’s death. Authorities say Wone was drugged, sexually as- saulted and stabbed after arrang- ing to spend the night at the three defendants’ home. The lawyers suggest that two men were growing apart roman- tically and that the other had planned to be out of town when Wone was killed. Joseph Price, Dylan Ward and


Victor Zaborsky were acquitted in June of misleading police, but they face a wrongful death civil lawsuit.


— Associated Press


Kenilworth Ave. work to cause delays


Repaving northbound Kenil-


worth Avenue is likely to cause overnight delays this week. The D.C. Department of Trans-


portation said the work will oc- cur between Foote and East Capi- tol streets from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. One lane will remain open, but offi- cials recommend that drivers use alternate routes.


— Staff reports MARYLAND


Deadline extended for tax credit The Maryland Department of


Assessments and Taxation has ex- tended the deadline for home- owners to submit applications for its property tax credit program from Sept. 1 to Nov. 1. The program sets a limit on the amount of property taxes a home- owner pays based on income. The combined household income lim- it is $60,000. Robert Young, deputy director of the state department, said the extension was offered in part to provide new applicants, who in previous years were ineligible, a chance to become familiar with the program. For information or to down- load an application, go to www. dat.state.md.us/sdatweb/htc. html.


— Ovetta Wiggins


Teenager shot at liquor store


A female teenager was shot and seriously injured at a Glen- arden area liquor store Monday in what police think was a domes- tic incident, authorities said. The shooting occurred about


3 p.m. at Brightseat Liquor in the 2600 block of Brightseat Road, police said. Officers said the incident was


related to a dispute between the victim and someone she knows, and they were searching for a sus- pect. They said the girl was grave- ly injured, and homicide detec- tives were called to the scene. — Matt Zapotosky


VIRGINIA


ICE agrees to give data to Pr. William Prince William Board of Coun-


ty Supervisors Chairman Corey A. Stewart said Monday that Im- migration and Customs Enforce- ment officials had agreed to turn over data about every illegal im- migrant apprehended and con- victed of a crime in the county. Stewart (R-At Large) had re- quested the information after a nun was killed and two were in- jured after the car in which they were traveling was struck by a suspected drunk driver who is in the United States illegally. Stewart said that “this data is the tip of the iceberg” and will show that millions of convicted criminal illegal immigrants in this country have been released while awaiting deportation. — Anita Kumar


Inner Beltway lanes to be closed Tuesday


Two left lanes of the Inner


Loop of the Capital Beltway at Route 123 are scheduled to close Tuesday night for emergency pavement repairs, according to officials with the Dulles Rail Proj- ect.


One lane will close at


9:30 p.m., and the other at 11 p.m., officials said. The repairs began Monday night.


— Staff reports


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