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Police seek teen suspect in slaying of American U. grad on D.C. Metro
Washington Post ^ | July 5 at 6:14 PM | Michael Smith and T. Rees Shapiro

Posted on 07/06/2015 6:38:42 AM PDT by palmer

He was a Connecticut transplant thriving in his adopted city, a policy and politics wonk known to capture sun-basked monuments, cherry blossoms and the marble halls of power in Washington with his ever-present camera.

On July 4, Kevin Joseph Sutherland stepped onto the Metro to visit friends, but he never arrived at the gathering.

In an altercation police believe was the result of a robbery gone awry, Sutherland was stabbed to death aboard a train during the Saturday afternoon rush at the NoMa-Gallaudet U station on Florida Avenue NE.

... and he decorated his student government office at American University — where he advocated for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights — with posters depicting glam shots of pop star Lady Gaga...

... At the time of his death, he was working as a digital political strategist with the firm New Blue Interactive....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: knifecontrol
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To: jimbo123

He thinks he is a tough mother fletcher. Hope he enjoys prison.


21 posted on 07/06/2015 7:05:13 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: palmer

Liberals have been giving the underclass savages excuses to kill Whiteys. The feral reptile brain brutes are all too happy to do it, since all they know how to do is rape hos, take money from Whiteys, beat and kill Whiteys, get high on drugs and act like slovenly feral indolent non-producers.


22 posted on 07/06/2015 7:10:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: palmer
"He was known to enjoy the sunset at a Kenny Chesney concert with a cocktail in hand, and he decorated his student government office at American University — where he advocated for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights — with posters depicting glam shots of pop star Lady Gaga".

It may have been different if he had supported gun rights and was armed?

23 posted on 07/06/2015 7:14:40 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Trump? Why not?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Why do you assume he is going to prison? He is actually a “good boy” who is turning his life around. He has found Jesus. With the right judge he will be out and attending rehabilitation.


24 posted on 07/06/2015 7:32:19 AM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Their only courage is against those who bear them no ill will.

They’re cultural bullies.


25 posted on 07/06/2015 7:34:52 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Maine Mariner
“What is a bit of a surprise is the time of day, Saturday afternoon and in what is a somewhat safer area in Washington, D.C.”

I know that area has gentrified substantially in recent years, but it still borders some very rough parts of town. I wouldn't walk in that neighborhood on weekends or at night without violating DC’s gun laws.

26 posted on 07/06/2015 8:25:46 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: palmer

I guess his press credentials and his party membership card weren’t knife-proof...


27 posted on 07/06/2015 8:59:44 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: NorthMountain

It’s sad that Sutherland, after an extensive,full, and painful recovery, didn’t get to reflect on the fact that it’s his type of activism that allows and encourages such a class of feral subhumans to prey on everyone else.


28 posted on 07/06/2015 10:03:05 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: riverdawg; Maine Mariner

A guy I know was near the location of the incident at that time. It was not good just a block away with kids chucking fireworks at cars. The gentrification is very localized.


29 posted on 07/06/2015 11:05:17 AM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet into FlixNet)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

He’s been arrested and charged with murder:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/dc-police-say-man-arrested-believed-to-be-suspect-in-fatal-metro-stabbing/2015/07/06/5db906a2-23e5-11e5-b72c-2b7d516e1e0e_story.html?tid=trending_strip_5


30 posted on 07/06/2015 7:38:39 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: isthisnickcool

Glam shots of Lady Gaga? She’s popular with homosexuals.


31 posted on 07/06/2015 7:44:04 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: CaptainK
Another update: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/victim-in-metro-slaying-stabbed-repeatedly-during-robbery-on- train/2015/07/07/8dd09132-249b-11e5-b72c-2b7d516e1e0e_story.html

A witness on the train told police that the attacker tried to take an item from Sutherland's waist area, and the two struggled as the man repeatedly punched Sutherland until he fell to the floor and cried for help, according to the affidavit. The witness saw something in the attacker's hand and then noticed the man throw Sutherland's cellphone at him as Sutherland lay on the floor. A second witness saw the assailant stomp Sutherland as he lay on the floor after he was punched in the chest

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After stabbing Sutherland, Spires then walked through the Metro car and asked a witness "what y'all got" and then rifled through a person's pants, taking a fare card and a wallet, according to the affidavit. The document says Spires took $65 from the wallet and threw the wallet and the fare card to the ground.

32 posted on 07/07/2015 11:14:09 AM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet into FlixNet)
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To: palmer
more: Spires grew up in Northwest Washington and graduated in 2014 from Wilson High School. He attended Louisburg College, a private two-year Methodist school in North Carolina, where he majored in environmental engineering, according to an online school profile. The college said he was enrolled from the summer of 2014 through this past spring.

Sounds like the suspect turned his life around.

33 posted on 07/07/2015 11:15:55 AM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet into FlixNet)
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