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Guard opens fire outside Walter Reed
seattlepi.nwsource.com ^ | June 20, 2007 | MARTY NILAND

Posted on 06/20/2007 10:53:47 PM PDT by bad company

WASHINGTON -- An armed security guard fired at least 10 shots at another guard during an argument outside a busy entrance to Walter Reed Army Medical Center early Wednesday, police said. No one was hurt.

"This was rush hour on a busy thoroughfare. There were cars and pedestrians in the line of fire," said police Cmdr. Hilton Burton. At least two parked cars across the street were hit.

The guard who was fired upon ran to a nearby house to call police. The other guard, Dwan Thigpen, 34, of Fort Washington, Md., was arrested and charged with assault with intent to murder. He was scheduled to appear in court Thursday, police said. Police and jail officials did not know whether Thigpen had an attorney.

A Walter Reed surveillance video of the shooting shows two civilians ducking to avoid the gunfire, Burton said. It also shows the two security guards arguing, and a third guard trying to break up the altercation.

"There is a brief struggle between the security guard and the suspect, where the third guard is apparently trying to stop the suspect from taking his gun out of his holster," Burton said.

The video then shows the first guard pulling out the gun, a 9 mm Beretta, and chasing and firing at the victim, and the victim running and trying to get out of the way, Burton said.

Police were still reviewing the video, and there were no immediate plans to release it.

The guards worked for Vance Federal Security Services, said Joe Gavaghan, a spokesman for the company, which contracts with Walter Reed. Vance is "cooperating with authorities investigating this incident," said Gavaghan, adding that the company could not provide additional details.

The hospital is the Army's premier center for treating injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; dwanthigpen; thigpen; walterreed
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1 posted on 06/20/2007 10:53:49 PM PDT by bad company
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Future DC policemen.


2 posted on 06/20/2007 10:57:47 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: bad company
The other guard, Dwan Thigpen

OK, got it now.

3 posted on 06/20/2007 10:58:57 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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bookmark


4 posted on 06/20/2007 11:00:00 PM PDT by DocRock (All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 ... Go ahead, look it up!)
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To: bad company

When he get’s out of the joint maybe Danny Snyder will sign him.


5 posted on 06/20/2007 11:00:54 PM PDT by BigCinBigD (You "abort" bad missile launches and carrier landings. Not babies.)
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...

ping


6 posted on 06/20/2007 11:00:57 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: bad company
Let me say as a armed contract security guard, that the person being shot at was (of course) the clueless supervisor...
7 posted on 06/20/2007 11:01:56 PM PDT by endthematrix (a globalized and integrated world - which is coming, one way or the other. - Hillary)
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To: bad company

guard rage


8 posted on 06/20/2007 11:02:59 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: bad company

That is just SOOOO wrong

can you imagine some of our poor troops inside, thinking to themselves - “man, this flashback seems just so REAL”...

Thank God no one was hurt. (Obviously someone needs to spend more time at the range, but I’m glad he didn’t.)


9 posted on 06/20/2007 11:03:26 PM PDT by dandelion
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To: bad company

wow.


10 posted on 06/20/2007 11:05:41 PM PDT by television is just wrong (Amnesty is when you allow them to return to their country of origin without prosecution.)
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To: Dumpster Baby
Obi Dwan Kenobi.
11 posted on 06/20/2007 11:37:36 PM PDT by SIDENET (Inventor of the 12-hour "power nap".)
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To: iowamark

The word “drugs” doesn’t appear in the article, but there should be no doubt at all that they were involved.


12 posted on 06/20/2007 11:38:08 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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An armed security guard fired at least 10 shots at another guard during an argument outside a busy entrance to Walter Reed Army Medical Center early Wednesday, police said.

Wow! We are becoming unglued.

13 posted on 06/20/2007 11:41:18 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: bad company

Must have hired some of those people that nobody else would hire.


14 posted on 06/21/2007 12:37:06 AM PDT by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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To: IncPen

ping


15 posted on 06/21/2007 12:40:29 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: bad company
"An armed security guard fired at least 10 shots at another guard during an argument outside a busy entrance to Walter Reed Army Medical Center early Wednesday, police said. No one was hurt."

Another armed security guard who couldn't hit a bull in the ass with a snow shovel.

16 posted on 06/21/2007 12:49:20 AM PDT by OldEagle
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To: Darksheare

ping


17 posted on 06/21/2007 12:54:23 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: endthematrix
Let me say as a armed contract security guard, that the person being shot at was (of course) the clueless supervisor...

Was it? This is a horrible story.

18 posted on 06/21/2007 12:55:31 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: SIDENET

Did he speak English?


19 posted on 06/21/2007 1:04:31 AM PDT by texastoo ((((((USA)))))((((((, USA))))))((((((. USA))))))))
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To: iowamark
Future DC policemen.

Or TSA

20 posted on 06/21/2007 1:29:14 AM PDT by MistrX
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