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Tuesday 15 March 2022
Man sought in homeless killings in New York, Washington D.C.

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN a.m. on March 3 in Wash-
and ASHRAF KHALIL ington D.C., police said,
Associated Press when a man was shot
NEW YORK (AP) — A search and wounded in the city's
was underway Monday for Northeast section. A sec-
a gunman who has been ond man was wounded on
stalking homeless men March 8, just before 1:30
sleeping on the streets of a.m.
Washington, D.C., and New At 3 a.m. the next day,
York City, fatally shooting March 9, police and fire-
two people and wounding fighters found a dead man
three more in less than two inside a burning tent. A sub-
weeks. sequent autopsy revealed
Police released surveil- that the man had died of
lance photographs of the multiple stab and gunshot
suspected gunman late wounds.
Sunday, including one in The killer then apparently
which the hooded man traveled north to New York
can be seen holding a pis- City, police said.
tol in a blue glove. At 4:30 a.m. Saturday, a
The killer's motive — if any 38-year-old man sleeping
— was unknown and au- on the street in Manhattan
thorities turned their atten- not far from the entrance
tion Monday to trying to to the Holland Tunnel was
offer what protections they These images taken from surveillance video and provided by the New York Police Department shot in his right arm as he
show a man suspected of shooting two homeless people on Saturday, March 12, 2022 in New
could to homeless people York. slept.
who might become tar- Associated Press The victim screamed and
gets. the gunman fled, police
New York Mayor Eric Ad- were shot while sleeping on scored the urgency to get people have a better op- said.
ams said police officers the streets, not committing the homeless off the streets tion than the streets where About 90 minutes later, the
and homeless outreach a crime but sleeping on the and into safe housing, said they're exposed to both the gunman fatally shot anoth-
teams would focus on find- streets." Jacquelyn Simone, the elements as well as people er man on Lafayette Street
ing unhoused people in In Washington, city out- policy director for the Co- who might wish to do them in SoHo, police said. The
the subways and other lo- reach workers were pass- alition for the Homeless in harm." man's body was found in
cations and would urge ing out flyers among the New York City. Simone and other advo- his sleeping bag just before
them to seek refuge at city- homeless population, urg- "The reason that these cates for the homeless 5 p.m. Saturday.
owned shelters. ing people to "be vigilant" people were attacked is called on the city to use Police determined the
"The case is a clear and and featuring multiple pic- because they didn't have vacant hotel rooms for same person committed
horrific intentional act of tures of the suspect. that safety of permanent temporary shelter for those the attacks based on the
taking the life of someone, "Our shelters have space housing," she said. "And who would rather stay on similarities of each shooting
it appears, because he and are ready to welcome that's why we really need the streets rather than opt and evidence recovered
was homeless," Adams said residents needing a place to use these tragedies as in dormitory-style housing. from the scenes. The vic-
at a news conference late to stay," the flyers stated. an opportunity to redouble The earliest known shoot- tims were attacked without
Sunday. "Two individuals The latest violence under- our efforts to ensure that ing happened at around 4 provocation, police said.q

Maryland's last public Confederate monument removed

The "Talbot Boys Statue" was holding a Confederate flag died in Minneapolis police
removed first and work- and names the men from custody.
ers then loaded the stone the Eastern Shore county The monuments have long
base onto a flatbed truck who joined the Confedera- been viewed by many as
by crane as small crowd cy and died in the war. symbols of white suprema-
watched. Some passing After the county council cy.
motorists who asked what voted to approve its remov- The effort to remove this
was happening, cheerfully al in September, the Move statue, not the first, grew
replied, "finally!" when they the Monument Coalition out of people's desire to do
heard the news. raised more than $80,000 to something concrete after
"Hallelujah!" said Sheryl relocate the statue to Cross Floyd's death, Ochs said.
Goodspeed of Easton. "I Keys Battlefield in Harrison- "We're all extraordinarily
was very happy." burg, Virginia, according and profoundly happy that
The statue that stood on to Ridgely Ochs, a member it has happened," Ochs
the Talbot County court- of the coalition's leadership said. "It's gone. It went well.
house lawn in Easton for a team. The historic battle- It was peaceful and re-
Crews remove the stone base of the Talbot Boys Statue, Mary-
land's last public Confederate statue, on the grounds of the Tal- century was thought to be field is in the care of the spectful."
bot County Courthouse, Monday, March 14, 2022, in Easton, Md. the last Confederate mon- Shenandoah Valley Battle- The Southern Poverty Law
Associated Press ument still standing on pub- fields Foundation. Center said that about 700
lic property in Maryland Many memorials to the Confederate statues are
By JULIO CORTEZ the last Confederate mon- other than cemeteries and Confederacy were taken still positioned near govern-
Associated Press ument on a courthouse battlefields. The 13-foot down in the wake of the ment buildings and in other
EASTON, Md. (AP) — A stat- lawn in Maryland was re- (3.9-meter) tall, copper 2020 death of George public places throughout
ue that was thought to be moved Monday. sculpture features a boy Floyd, a Black man who the United States.q