Fatal Robbery, Shell Station in White Oak

[joppaj]

Shooting at Shell Gas Station Thursday Afternoon Now Confirmed as Homicide - The MoCo Show

4:11pm Update per MCPD: MCPD PIO is en route to a confirmed homicide in the 1100 block of New Hampshire Ave. Montgomery County Police is investigating a shooting at the...

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Looks like a robbery gone bad.

 

[Afrikeber]

Rough area. Sorry to hear of the loss of life.

 

[joppaj]

Rough area. Sorry to hear of the loss of life.

My wife informed me that, "I stop there for gas. It's new and clean and there's always people around."

This is why I fill her gas tank on Sunday...

 

[pbharvey]

That gas station is less than 1/2 mile from the police station

 

[gamer_jim]

This is why I fill her gas tank on Sunday...

Can we keep this PG13 please?

 

[joppaj]

Can we keep this PG13 please?

I knew I should have edited that sentence...

 

[joppaj]

That gas station is less than 1/2 mile from the police station

Right, and at 3pm. How do you make a fast getaway from there? 29? There's traffic everywhere.

 

[pbharvey]

Has this been confirmed as a robbery? The only thing I saw was that someone walked in and blasted the worker in the chest.

 

[Stoveman]

Newly minted GFZ?

 

[spoon059]

Shooting at Shell Gas Station Thursday Afternoon Now Confirmed as Homicide - The MoCo Show

4:11pm Update per MCPD: MCPD PIO is en route to a confirmed homicide in the 1100 block of New Hampshire Ave. Montgomery County Police is investigating a shooting at the...

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Looks like a robbery gone bad.

Wasn't even initially a robbery. The video is sickening. I'm not going to post details yet, as its still a wide open scene, but it was absolutely senseless.

 

[JohnnyE]

That gas station is less than 1/2 mile from the police station

My pop's office was across the street from a police station, and when he called them about an issue no one came across the street to handle it, they needed to call in a unit on patrol to take the report.

 

[SkiPatrolDude]

Rough area. Sorry to hear of the loss of life.

Worst part is, it shouldn't be. I grew up with friends that lived in the neighborhoods around there. Most of it is upper middle class. My friends and I used to call all kinds of petty trouble around those parts back in the early 2000's. Even back then, though, there regular drug sting operations in White Oak Shopping Center.

It's too bad. Those towers literally ruin the entire area. Pansa Llena's in that shopping center is some of the best authentic mexican food you can get anywhere. Used to be a regular after-work happy hour stop for me when I lived in silver spring.

 

[spoon059]

My pop's office was across the street from a police station, and when he called them about an issue no one came across the street to handle it, they needed to call in a unit on patrol to take the report.

Yea... its a police station, not a firehouse. Cops don't just sit at the station and wait for someone across the street to need you. They are out patrolling. If you stop by any police station at any given time, it is highly unlikely that there is an officer just sitting there waiting for work.

Even in 2022, when proactive patrolling is dead, we've been defunded to the point that we can barely cover calls for service, let alone be proactively patrolling, let alone just standing idly by, waiting to see if your dad needs someone to run across the street to check on him.

 

[spoon059]

Worst part is, it shouldn't be. I grew up with friends that lived in the neighborhoods around there. Most of it is upper middle class. My friends and I used to call all kinds of petty trouble around those parts back in the early 2000's. Even back then, though, there regular drug sting operations in White Oak Shopping Center.

It's too bad. Those towers literally ruin the entire area. Pansa Llena's in that shopping center is some of the best authentic mexican food you can get anywhere. Used to be a regular after-work happy hour stop for me when I lived in silver spring.

I worked at the Sears in college. I had friends that lived in those apartments. I worked patrol in that neighborhood from 2002 through 2014. I've worked investigations in that neighborhood since 2020.

The apartments on Lockwood/Stewart/April are mostly subsidized housing. The towers are mostly subsidized. The townhouses on Oakleaf... subsidized. The older Jewish community along Lockwood and Burnt Mills is middle class at best, hardly UPPER middle class. In the mid 2010s they put up some more expensive townhouses along April Ln, but there was a lot of MPDUs and still a lot more low income and criminal occupants than anything resembling upper middle class.

That square mile creates more criminal activity and calls for police service than the majority of upper Mongtomery County combined. Lots of problems there... you are lucky if you've never encountered any of it.

 

[Mark75H]

I'm confused about the location. White Oak or Hillendale?

 

[RFBfromDE]

There is a Radiology Clinic within 1k feet.

Don’t they know it’s a gun free zone?

 

[Biggfoot44]

My pop's office was across the street from a police station, and when he called them about an issue no one came across the street to handle it, they needed to call in a unit on patrol to take the report.

In front of a police station is the best place to commit a crime , street race , etc ( except for possibly 10 minutes at shift time ) .

 

[brianns]

Diesel $4.59/gal there. I just paid $4.99 here in Germantown tonight.

 

[172pilot]

I'm confused about the location. White Oak or Hillendale?

I believe it's White Oak, just South of 29, basically next to the Mcdonalds and across the street from the old hardware store that I think is now a storage facility.. It's a shame - I went to Springbrook and in the 80s would have been around there any given day after school, probably at the bowling alley, Sears, or Radio Shack.. I'd be scared to stop there these days.

 

[fabsroman]

Good grief. I was just there a month ago after seeing a client in that area. I filled up there because I was almost on fumes and the price was actually cheaper than at my place out in the "country". I grew up in that area. Just hard to believe it has gotten to that point.