New Hampshire Avenue is a congested road but is close to 495...the other ones, the multiple ones in Silver Spring, are in a congested area. You could almost fall of of 95 to get to Michaels.
Didn't hear about shooting but just heard on WBIG 100.3 that Suitland Parkway is closed at Suitland Road for "unidentified police activity" which is consistent with the area you mention.
School VERY close to US Rtes 50 and 301...shootings in Silver Spring were in congested area not really near a major highway (495/95 is near, but not that near).
I'm at work in NW, DC. The area on the map doesn't look like the best of areas...could be totally unrelated...drugs or some other crime. Lots of shootings in that area generally.
Mitchellville road for all intents ends at 197 but continues through the parking lot all the way through to Target, intersecting with Harbour. Splitting hairs, I agree but Mitchellville Road isn't really a road at that point. The shopping center is located between 197 and 301. Michaels is in the same parking lot as Target and Boards, just split by "Michellville Road" which at that point is an avenue through the parking lot.
where are you getting your information? The Michaels store sits almost on 301. You can enter from 197 at the far end of the shopping center complex but you have to drive through the parking lots to get there from 197. Mitchellville Road is a left turn off of 197 heading toward 301. Target and Borders are also just off of 301.
There is a Michaels not far from the shooting. It's at the shopping center where the WalMart was said to have a shooting (but later proved to be false). The Michaels stored burned several months ago but I believe it is reopened. Very close to school...just minutes away.
One witness who found the victim that had been mowing the lawn described his wound as "the size of a coffee cup." Same description for the boy's wound.