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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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To: bad company
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posted on
06/20/2007 10:57:47 PM PDT
by
iowamark
To: bad company
The other guard, Dwan Thigpen OK, got it now.
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posted on
06/20/2007 10:58:57 PM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: bad company
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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!)
To: bad company
When he get’s out of the joint maybe Danny Snyder will sign him.
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posted on
06/20/2007 11:00:54 PM PDT
by
BigCinBigD
(You "abort" bad missile launches and carrier landings. Not babies.)
To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
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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)
To: bad company
Let me say as a armed contract security guard, that the person being shot at was (of course) the clueless supervisor...
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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)
To: bad company
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.)
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posted on
06/20/2007 11:03:26 PM PDT
by
dandelion
To: bad company
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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.)
To: Dumpster Baby
Obi Dwan Kenobi.
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posted on
06/20/2007 11:37:36 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Inventor of the 12-hour "power nap".)
To: iowamark
The word “drugs” doesn’t appear in the article, but there should be no doubt at all that they were involved.
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. Wow! We are becoming unglued.
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posted on
06/20/2007 11:41:18 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
To: bad company
Must have hired some of those people that nobody else would hire.
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posted on
06/21/2007 12:37:06 AM PDT
by
taxesareforever
(Never forget Matt Maupin)
To: IncPen
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.
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posted on
06/21/2007 12:49:20 AM PDT
by
OldEagle
To: Darksheare
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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.)
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.
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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.)
To: SIDENET
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posted on
06/21/2007 1:04:31 AM PDT
by
texastoo
((((((USA)))))((((((, USA))))))((((((. USA))))))))
To: iowamark
Future DC policemen. Or TSA
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posted on
06/21/2007 1:29:14 AM PDT
by
MistrX
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