MAN PUSHED INTO SIDE OF METRO TRAIN

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THIS MORNING WAS STARTED WITH YET ANOTHER METRO INCIDENT. THIS TIME IT WAS THE RESULT OF A FIGHT.

A MAN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL SUFFERING INJURIES TO HIS HEAD AND ARM THAT HE RECEIVED AFTER BEING PUSHED INTO THE SIDE OF AN ONCOMING TRAIN. ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES, TWO MEN GOT INTO AN ALTERCATION ABOUT 6:40 THIS MORNING, A FIGHT ENSUED WHILE WAITING ON THE PLATFORM, AND THE MAN WAS PUSHED.

POLICE SAY THE VICTIM'S INJURIES ARE NOT LIFE THREATENING AND THE INCIDENT HAS NOT AFFECTED TRAIN SERVICE. AUTHORITIES SAY THE TWO MEN WERE AT THE GALLERY PLACE METRO STATION ON THE SIDE OF THE GREEN LINE TRAINS GOING IN THE DIRECTION OF BRANCH AVE.

-Lynee Coan, GT NEWS

SE MAN CHARGED IN FRIDAY'S KILLING

DC Police say a suspect is in custody for a homicide that happened Friday after turning himself in.

Donta T. Leonard, 23, of Southeast Washington is being charged with second-degree murder. According to authorities, officers responded to a report of an assault in the 1100 block of Stevens Road SE around 8:30 pm, Friday night. When they arrived on the scene the victim, William Lee Boney, Jr., 20, also of Southeast, was lying on the ground.

Police say he was suffering from injuries caused by blunt force trauma. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Police have not released any further information involving this case.

-Lynee Coan, GT NEWS

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For those who wish to pay their last respects to William Boney his funeral service arrangements have been altered and can be found below:

The Wake

Thursday, July 2ND, 2009

7pm

Funeral Service

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

10 AM

Location

Bethlehem Baptist Church

2458 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE

Washington, DC

*Both the wake and funeral service will be head at this location.

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GT NEWS and the rest of the GT Family extends our deepest sympathies to the Boney family and friends.

R.I.P. William Boney, Jr.

PG TEEN FOUND SHOT DEAD IN MALL PARKING LOT

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Violence strikes the Forestville community. Police say they found a teen fatally shot Saturday in a car on the parking lot of Forest Village Park Mall.

According to police, gunshots were reported the the shopping center around 6 pm. When they arrived on the scene, authorities say the found Shawn Antonio Perry,18, shot in the driver's seat. Authorities say Perry was shot in the torso. Perry was rushed to the hospital and was pronounced dead there.

So far police have no suspects in the case, but are asking for any witnesses to come forward. The police department is offering up to $25,000 for any information that leads to an arrest and/or indictment.

-Lynee Coan, GT NEWS

DEAD BODIES FOUND NEAR SCHOOL

Two decomposing bodies were discovered yesterday near a Hyattsville elementary school. Prince George's County police said they found the bodies after receiving an anonymous tip. 

The bodies were found in a wooded area near Rosa Parks Elementary School. They have been sent to the medical examiner's office in Baltimore.

Lanham Hospital Gets Fined!

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Doctor's Community Hospital in PG County has been fined. Regulators from the Maryland Health Department have issued the fines after the hospital failed to notify them that a patient had died and that seven other patients had suffered serious harm due to mistakes made by medical staff.

The fine, which was originally set at $95,000 was reduced to $30,000. The fine was paid by the surgical hospital, located in Lanham sometime last month. Why was it reduced? State officials reduced the penalty on the condition that the hospital uses the left over $65,000 to start a new patient safety program.

Officials blame the hospital's problems on lack of staffing. "We expect errors to occur," said Wendy Kronmiller, director of the state Office of Health Care Quality. "But we expect systems in place to catch them. What we found at Doctors is that the systems essentially didn't exist."

This fine is the first since the five years that Maryland began requiring its 69 hospitals to make public serious errors effecting patients. 

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-Lynee Coan, GT NEWS