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Happy Monday, DLD readers! The weather is looking potentially dangerous this evening, so get outside and soak up some fresh air now if you can. Here’s the news you may have missed while rapidly refreshing Instagram for potential Beyoncé sightings.
FedUp Field
Queen Bey brought her Renaissance World Tour to greater D.C. for two nights of shows at FedEx Field on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday’s show went off without a hitch—and the crowd did a decent job during the “on mute” section of “ENERGY”—but Sunday was a different story.
Reports of lightning in the area forced FedEx Field staff to issue a shelter in place order around 6:40 p.m., just as fans arrived. Those who hadn’t entered the stadium were asked to return to their cars, and those inside were asked to leave their seats and take shelter in the covered areas of the concourse. Forcing tens of thousands of people to huddle in what amounts to a large hallway wasn’t a perfect solution, and when the shelter in place lifted just before 8:30 p.m., things only got worse.
As concertgoers prepared to return to their seats, people started pushing and police and security staff yelled at fans who were trying to enter the stadium. Multiple cases of heat exhaustion were reported, likely due to the humid conditions inside the stadium. Nevertheless, the show went on, and since the weather delayed its start, Beyoncé and her team ended up shelling out $100,000 to keep the Metro open for an extra hour. You love to see it.
“It’s sad. I’m immune to death at this point.”
This weekend was one of the deadliest in recent memory: Six people were fatally shot on Saturday, and more than a dozen people have died in the first five days of August.
Two men were found fatally shot around 1 a.m. on Saturday in the 2500 block of Ontario Road NW in Adams Morgan; a third victim, who was found with them, was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to police. Hours later, police found a man who died from gunshot wounds in the 1200 block of U Street NW. Later Saturday evening, three people died in a shooting near Good Hope Road and 16th Street SE; four more people were injured in that shooting and were taken to local hospitals.
The loss of life is maddening, and city officials are struggling to keep violence under control. U.S. Attorney for D.C. Matthew Graves stressed the need to strengthen current laws and “ensure MPD has the resources it needs,” in a statement to the Washington Post. Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, who represents the area where three people died on Saturday, asked Acting MPD Chief Pamela Smith to “direct additional resources to [hot] spots in the ward” and Graves to prosecute more cases, according to a statement her office issued on Saturday afternoon. Nadeau also stressed the importance of re-accrediting D.C.’s crime lab, which has been outsourcing ballistics testing for more than two years.
—Caroline Jones (tips? cjones@washingtoncitypaper.com)
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