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The Post's View Opinion
A promising young woman’s life, suddenly cut short
JAMAHRI SYDNOR was in that wonderful moment before a new world opens up, just counting down the days before enrolling at Florida A&M University. At 17 years old, she reached this turning point with an unusual amount of spirit and verve, a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, the captain of the cheerleading squad, a member of the choir who helped the group win a top award at a competition this summer in New York and a peer counselor who helped classmates through tough times. Her voice boomed with enthusiasm, and she was the kind of person, a friend recalled, whom you looked for if you were having a bad day.
She seems to have done so many things right for a young person in today’s fraught world.
On Thursday at 3:32 in the afternoon, she was driving a young relative home in a white Nissan Versa sedan on a tree-lined stretch of Saratoga Avenue NE, in Brentwood. Two gunmen stood up from bushes on the side of the street. They carried .40-caliber and .45-caliber handguns and opened fire at a group across the street. Twelve bullets were fired as the car passed.
One of the bullets crashed through the glass of the Nissan and hit Ms. Sydnor in the head. The car smacked into another as she lost control. She died on Saturday in a hospital. Her passenger was showered in glass; another bystander was injured. The shooters disappeared. The next day, a suspect, Philip Carlos McDaniel, 21, was arrested and charged with assault with intent to kill. Court documents show that he denied to police he was the shooter but said he drove two men to the spot just before the incident. Police are searching for the two.
In a single moment of horrible violence, Ms. Sydnor’s life was taken and her dreams extinguished. To say the bullet was a stray or that Ms. Sydnor was an innocent bystander does not do justice to the fact it was fired deliberately on a city street in daytime by men with intent to kill someone. We trust that law enforcement will soon find the suspects and they will face justice for a senseless crime. But that will bring scant comfort. Our hearts go out to Ms. Sydnor’s family. Her mother is a 30-year veteran of the D.C. police who has worked as a detective.
Everyone who cares about the District should be appalled and angry at this lawless gunplay, and ask why .40-caliber and .45-caliber bullets are whizzing through the air in a D.C. neighborhood in the middle of the afternoon. At this point, it is not known who fired the guns, nor why. But we do know that Ms. Sydnor was a promising young woman on the threshold of a new chapter in life, and that her death is intolerable.
By Editorial Board August 14 at 7:14 PM, The Washington Post.
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The funeral and repass of Jamahri Rome Wallace Sydnor, Daughter of Sgt Q. Wallace, will be held on Friday, September 1st. Please see below for additional details:
Funeral and Viewing: 0900-1100 at Greater Mount Calvary Church 610 Rhode Island Ave NE Washington DC 20002
Service: 1100- conclusion
Interment: Ft Lincoln Cemetery 3401 Bladensburg Rd Brentwood MD 20722 and repass at Park Langdon 2901 20th St NE Washington DC 20018.
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The Post's View Opinion
A promising young woman’s life, suddenly cut short
JAMAHRI SYDNOR was in that wonderful moment before a new world opens up, just counting down the days before enrolling at Florida A&M University. At 17 years old, she reached this turning point with an unusual amount of spirit and verve, a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, the captain of the cheerleading squad, a member of the choir who helped the group win a top award at a competition this summer in New York and a peer counselor who helped classmates through tough times. Her voice boomed with enthusiasm, and she was the kind of person, a friend recalled, whom you looked for if you were having a bad day.
She seems to have done so many things right for a young person in today’s fraught world.
On Thursday at 3:32 in the afternoon, she was driving a young relative home in a white Nissan Versa sedan on a tree-lined stretch of Saratoga Avenue NE, in Brentwood. Two gunmen stood up from bushes on the side of the street. They carried .40-caliber and .45-caliber handguns and opened fire at a group across the street. Twelve bullets were fired as the car passed.
One of the bullets crashed through the glass of the Nissan and hit Ms. Sydnor in the head. The car smacked into another as she lost control. She died on Saturday in a hospital. Her passenger was showered in glass; another bystander was injured. The shooters disappeared. The next day, a suspect, Philip Carlos McDaniel, 21, was arrested and charged with assault with intent to kill. Court documents show that he denied to police he was the shooter but said he drove two men to the spot just before the incident. Police are searching for the two.
In a single moment of horrible violence, Ms. Sydnor’s life was taken and her dreams extinguished. To say the bullet was a stray or that Ms. Sydnor was an innocent bystander does not do justice to the fact it was fired deliberately on a city street in daytime by men with intent to kill someone. We trust that law enforcement will soon find the suspects and they will face justice for a senseless crime. But that will bring scant comfort. Our hearts go out to Ms. Sydnor’s family. Her mother is a 30-year veteran of the D.C. police who has worked as a detective.
Everyone who cares about the District should be appalled and angry at this lawless gunplay, and ask why .40-caliber and .45-caliber bullets are whizzing through the air in a D.C. neighborhood in the middle of the afternoon. At this point, it is not known who fired the guns, nor why. But we do know that Ms. Sydnor was a promising young woman on the threshold of a new chapter in life, and that her death is intolerable.
By Editorial Board August 14 at 7:14 PM, The Washington Post.
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The funeral and repass of Jamahri Rome Wallace Sydnor, Daughter of Sgt Q. Wallace, will be held on Friday, September 1st. Please see below for additional details:
Funeral and Viewing: 0900-1100 at Greater Mount Calvary Church 610 Rhode Island Ave NE Washington DC 20002
Service: 1100- conclusion
Interment: Ft Lincoln Cemetery 3401 Bladensburg Rd Brentwood MD 20722 and repass at Park Langdon 2901 20th St NE Washington DC 20018.
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The Post's View Opinion
A promising young woman’s life, suddenly cut short
JAMAHRI SYDNOR was in that wonderful moment before a new world opens up, just counting down the days before enrolling at Florida A&M University. At 17 years old, she reached this turning point with an unusual amount of spirit and verve, a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, the captain of the cheerleading squad, a member of the choir who helped the group win a top award at a competition this summer in New York and a peer counselor who helped classmates through tough times. Her voice boomed with enthusiasm, and she was the kind of person, a friend recalled, whom you looked for if you were having a bad day.
She seems to have done so many things right for a young person in today’s fraught world.
On Thursday at 3:32 in the afternoon, she was driving a young relative home in a white Nissan Versa sedan on a tree-lined stretch of Saratoga Avenue NE, in Brentwood. Two gunmen stood up from bushes on the side of the street. They carried .40-caliber and .45-caliber handguns and opened fire at a group across the street. Twelve bullets were fired as the car passed.
One of the bullets crashed through the glass of the Nissan and hit Ms. Sydnor in the head. The car smacked into another as she lost control. She died on Saturday in a hospital. Her passenger was showered in glass; another bystander was injured. The shooters disappeared. The next day, a suspect, Philip Carlos McDaniel, 21, was arrested and charged with assault with intent to kill. Court documents show that he denied to police he was the shooter but said he drove two men to the spot just before the incident. Police are searching for the two.
In a single moment of horrible violence, Ms. Sydnor’s life was taken and her dreams extinguished. To say the bullet was a stray or that Ms. Sydnor was an innocent bystander does not do justice to the fact it was fired deliberately on a city street in daytime by men with intent to kill someone. We trust that law enforcement will soon find the suspects and they will face justice for a senseless crime. But that will bring scant comfort. Our hearts go out to Ms. Sydnor’s family. Her mother is a 30-year veteran of the D.C. police who has worked as a detective.
Everyone who cares about the District should be appalled and angry at this lawless gunplay, and ask why .40-caliber and .45-caliber bullets are whizzing through the air in a D.C. neighborhood in the middle of the afternoon. At this point, it is not known who fired the guns, nor why. But we do know that Ms. Sydnor was a promising young woman on the threshold of a new chapter in life, and that her death is intolerable.
By Editorial Board August 14 at 7:14 PM, The Washington Post.
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The funeral and repass of Jamahri Rome Wallace Sydnor, Daughter of Sgt Q. Wallace, will be held on Friday, September 1st. Please see below for additional details:
Funeral and Viewing: 0900-1100 at Greater Mount Calvary Church 610 Rhode Island Ave NE Washington DC 20002
Service: 1100- conclusion
Interment: Ft Lincoln Cemetery 3401 Bladensburg Rd Brentwood MD 20722 and repass at Park Langdon 2901 20th St NE Washington DC 20018.
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The Post's View Opinion
A promising young woman’s life, suddenly cut short
JAMAHRI SYDNOR was in that wonderful moment before a new world opens up, just counting down the days before enrolling at Florida A&M University. At 17 years old, she reached this turning point with an unusual amount of spirit and verve, a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, the captain of the cheerleading squad, a member of the choir who helped the group win a top award at a competition this summer in New York and a peer counselor who helped classmates through tough times. Her voice boomed with enthusiasm, and she was the kind of person, a friend recalled, whom you looked for if you were having a bad day.
She seems to have done so many things right for a young person in today’s fraught world.
On Thursday at 3:32 in the afternoon, she was driving a young relative home in a white Nissan Versa sedan on a tree-lined stretch of Saratoga Avenue NE, in Brentwood. Two gunmen stood up from bushes on the side of the street. They carried .40-caliber and .45-caliber handguns and opened fire at a group across the street. Twelve bullets were fired as the car passed.
One of the bullets crashed through the glass of the Nissan and hit Ms. Sydnor in the head. The car smacked into another as she lost control. She died on Saturday in a hospital. Her passenger was showered in glass; another bystander was injured. The shooters disappeared. The next day, a suspect, Philip Carlos McDaniel, 21, was arrested and charged with assault with intent to kill. Court documents show that he denied to police he was the shooter but said he drove two men to the spot just before the incident. Police are searching for the two.
In a single moment of horrible violence, Ms. Sydnor’s life was taken and her dreams extinguished. To say the bullet was a stray or that Ms. Sydnor was an innocent bystander does not do justice to the fact it was fired deliberately on a city street in daytime by men with intent to kill someone. We trust that law enforcement will soon find the suspects and they will face justice for a senseless crime. But that will bring scant comfort. Our hearts go out to Ms. Sydnor’s family. Her mother is a 30-year veteran of the D.C. police who has worked as a detective.
Everyone who cares about the District should be appalled and angry at this lawless gunplay, and ask why .40-caliber and .45-caliber bullets are whizzing through the air in a D.C. neighborhood in the middle of the afternoon. At this point, it is not known who fired the guns, nor why. But we do know that Ms. Sydnor was a promising young woman on the threshold of a new chapter in life, and that her death is intolerable.
By Editorial Board August 14 at 7:14 PM, The Washington Post.
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The funeral and repass of Jamahri Rome Wallace Sydnor, Daughter of Sgt Q. Wallace, will be held on Friday, September 1st. Please see below for additional details:
Funeral and Viewing: 0900-1100 at Greater Mount Calvary Church 610 Rhode Island Ave NE Washington DC 20002
Service: 1100- conclusion
Interment: Ft Lincoln Cemetery 3401 Bladensburg Rd Brentwood MD 20722 and repass at Park Langdon 2901 20th St NE Washington DC 20018.
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