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District of Columbia police commander returned to his position Monday after being reassigned for making a racially insensitive remark at a community meeting about the slaying of a British activist. On July 10, Cmdr. Andy Solberg spoke to residents of the upscale Georgetown neighborhood who had gathered to express concern about the slaying of Alan Senitt, 27, a volunteer in the potential presidential campaign of former Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner. Senitt's throat was slit a day earlier during a robbery as he and a female companion returned from a movie. Police say Senitt's attackers attempted to rape the companion....

Four people were arrested, according to reports A British charity director has been stabbed to death in the United States. Londoner Alan Senitt, 27, was set upon as he walked home with his girlfriend in the Georgetown area of Washington DC at about 0200 local time. Police have reportedly arrested and charged two men, a youth and a woman with murder. Mr Senitt had only recently moved to work in the American capital to work for the All-Party British-Israel Parliamentary Group. 'Very bright' A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said: "The local police are investigating the circumstances of the death...

Three assailants who cut the throat of an aspiring politician from Britain killed him and tried to rape his female companion early yesterday in the driveway of a Georgetown mansion, police reported, after the couple had returned from a night at the movies. The victim, Alan Senitt, 27, a Jewish activist and volunteer for former Virginia governor Mark R. Warner, died at the scene, police said. The woman, whom police declined to identify, was not injured. Within hours, D.C. police arrested four people in connection with one of the most brutal crimes in years on the affluent streets of Georgetown...