Posted on 09/23/2023 5:47:44 PM PDT by simpson96
A dispute over sauce outside a Washington, D.C., McDonald's escalated into the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old, police said.
Naima Liggon, of Waldorf, Maryland, died in the violence early Sunday, Washington Metropolitan Police said in a news release.
Police said she was stabbed outside a McDonald's in the 1900 block of 14th Street NW.
Liggon was taken to a hospital in a private vehicle, police said. Officers responded to the hospital just after 2 a.m. for a report of a teenage girl with stab wounds. Despite lifesaving efforts, she died.
Later Sunday, police said, a 16-year-old girl, also of Waldorf, was arrested and found with a knife.
She has been charged with second-degree murder while armed, assault with intent to kill, aggravated assault, felony assault and carrying a dangerous weapon, NBC Washington reported.
The teen appeared at a hearing Monday in D.C. Superior Court, where Detective Brendan Jasper testified that Liggon was stabbed in an argument over “sweet-and-sour sauce” among three girls outside the McDonald’s just after 2 a.m., The Washington Post reported.
Liggon and another girl began hitting the 16-year-old suspect, and as they tried to get into the vehicle, the suspect “lunged” at Liggon with a 7½-inch pocketknife, hitting her in the chest and the abdomen, he testified.
The teen pleaded “not involved,” which is the juvenile equivalent of not guilty, the Post reported. Her attorney argued she acted in self-defense in a dispute started by the others, while prosecutors argued she was the only person who took a knife to a fistfight.
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What does this have to do with actual humans?
In 1979, I walked up 14th St. in search of an address. The farther north I proceeded, the more dangerous the neighborhood appeared. At R St. I turned around because it looked too dangerous, with young men who looked like hoodlums slouching on the sidewalk. I was obviously entering a slum.
Turns out I was in the wrong quadrant. The address I was seeking was in Southwest DC, not Northwest DC.
Nowadays, Sette Osteria, an upscale Italian restaurant, stands at the corner where I turned around due to concerns about safety in 1979.
Welcome to the District of Crime.
I avoided upper 14th Street like the plague. So would have Moses. He would have preferred the plague.
In 1964 you could take 14th St. to K St. and see a good number of hookers. It was quite a sight. Not just the get ups the wore but the hair colors as. Every color imaginable and then some. Colors that I have never seen again. The area around 14th and K was better than a circus.
I suspect that this isn't her first trip into the world of nightclubs and bars.
It is amazing what the bouncers and managers "miss" amongst their patrons.
There is so much wrong with this story. Sigh.
In 1969, I was with the Whittier (Calif.) High School Band, which was performing in Richard Nixon’s Inaugural Parade. We stayed at the Manger Hamilton Hotel on 14th and K (Manger rhymes with anger). This seemed to be a nice area at the time. The hotel bar was called the Purple Tree (”the spot to be is the Purple Tree”). Not far away was Sholl’s Cafeteria, which had fine food, and they also featured fliers that promoted their Christian values. There was also a popular eatery nearby called the Speakeasy.
The hotel is still there—I think it’s now called simply the Hamilton, but Sholl’s and the Speakeasy are long gone.
It's like a Dickens novel mixed with high-tech and zombies out there.
About a year ago I walked from UDC down to the Lincoln memorial and then over to near the capitol. The hoodlums seems much more distributed these days.
Sometimes the bouncers are part of the problem. I went into the bathroom at ‘The Bayou’ to blow my nose with bad allergies. A bouncer thought I was using cocaine and really really wanted some. I was lucky some other people walked in when they did. But then, this was sometime in the early 1980s.
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