Police Seek Suspect in Two Armed Roberries Over Night, One Victim Was a Georgetown Student

Late Wednesday evening two armed robberies occurred in the Second Police District. In one incident the victim was a female Georgetown student who was robbed at gun point in a courtyard area on the 3600 block of O Street at approximately 10:2o p.m. The two incidents come just days after Lieutenant John Hedgecock said by 50 percent in the area.

According to an alert on the Georgetown University Department of Public Safety website, the victim of the O Street robbery noticed the suspect walking behind her. The Georgetown Voice first reported this incident.

The suspect grabbed the student's purse, so she fled into a courtyard in the 3600 block of O Street. According to report from Lt. John Hedgecock, the suspect chased her, threatened her with a silver handgun, saying “I’ll shoot you!” The suspect then stole her Iphone as well.

Georgetown students have been the victims of other high profile crimes in recent months. In May a group house that included Georgetown students was burglarized and the victims were threatened at gunpoint while the suspects searched the home for money and drugs. Police are still investigating that case.

And last week another group house was broken into in the morning while the occupants were still in the home. .

The other incident took place just after midnight on the 4400 block of 42nd Street, near Albemarle Street. The victim was walking from the Tenleytown Metro station when a strange man approached her from the other side of the street, brandishing a dark colored handgun. The suspect demanded her purse and struck the victim on the side of her neck with the gun, which fired without hitting the victim. She suffered a non-life-threatening burn injury to her neck.

According to Commander Michael Reese "the lookout in these offenses are generally the same and likley committed by the same person."

The Georgetown student described the suspect as a black male with medium to dark complexion, in his mid-twenties, approximately 5'9", with shoulder-length dreadlock hair, wearing a large black T-shirt and possibly denim pants. The 42nd Street victim described the suspect similarly, but said he was closer to 6 feet tall.

Anyone with any information regarding this case is asked to contact the Second District Detectives Office on 202-730-1903, or our Command Information Center on 202-727-9099.