Please excuse me if this has been posted before. By the way, does anyone have one of those Tec-9 subguns?
"Mother Accused Of Retribution Shooting After Son Was Slain
By Donna St. George and Petula Dvorak
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday , July 14, 2000 ; B01
The mother of a young man gunned down on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday observance, who had grieved that her son's death went unnoticed as the city celebrated the life of the civil rights leader, was arrested yesterday in the shooting of a man she blamed for her son's death.
Barbara Lipscomb, 48, was arrested at her home in Capitol Heights at 7 a.m. on a charge of assault with intent to kill in a Jan. 26 incident that left a 21-year-old man paralyzed from the waist down. Police recovered three handguns and a TEC-9 submachine gun at her home.
"This is a vigilante antic that went awry," Winston Robinson, commander of the 7th District, said of the shooting. " . . . This was an innocent man, and now he's paralyzed."
In February, police arrested Erskine Moore, the boyfriend of one of Lipscomb's daughters, in the crime, in the 2400 block of Elvans Road in Southeast Washington. But they said at the time--in a Washington Post profile of the case--that other family members might be arrested as the investigation continued.
Yesterday, police said they had enough evidence to show that Lipscomb--whom they identified by her most recent married name, Barbara Ann Martin--was also a shooter that January evening. It was just two days after the funeral of her son, Le'Pierre Clemons, 19, who was hit by a spray of bullets in the same Southeast neighborhood.
The 21-year-old man whom Lipscomb, a grandmother and former assistant manager in the D.C. Housing Authority, is accused of shooting was hit three times by bullets from a .40-caliber gun. One bullet lodged in his spine, causing paralysis, police said. He was in the hospital for months and continues to undergo treatment.
The break in the case came in recent months as the victim struggled to identify the assailant. It all came together this week, a combination of victim and witness statements that secured arrest and search warrants, said Sgt. C.V. Morris.
Lipscomb was arrested yesterday in Prince George's County and waived extradition. If convicted, she would face two to 15 years in prison.
Among the guns police confiscated were two that belonged to Lipscomb. "She had the 9mm and a .38 revolver," Morris said. "That surprised me, considering she said she was going to be in the Million Mom March against gun violence and all that."
Morris said he had verbally sparred with Lipscomb before, when she said officers weren't working hard enough to find her son's killer.
"A man in a mask killed your son," Morris said he told her. "That's one of the hardest crimes to solve."
Police made an arrest in her son's slaying April 5, almost three months after he was shot. Police say Daniel William Jackson Jr., 20, known as DJ, fired repeatedly at the teenager. The two had grown up together.
Robinson, the police commander, said the case shows the damage that can be wrought when people try to find justice on their own. "We wish that concerned citizens would work with us in the District of Columbia and by no means take matters in their own hands," he said."
© 2000 The Washington Post Company
"Mother Accused Of Retribution Shooting After Son Was Slain
By Donna St. George and Petula Dvorak
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday , July 14, 2000 ; B01
The mother of a young man gunned down on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday observance, who had grieved that her son's death went unnoticed as the city celebrated the life of the civil rights leader, was arrested yesterday in the shooting of a man she blamed for her son's death.
Barbara Lipscomb, 48, was arrested at her home in Capitol Heights at 7 a.m. on a charge of assault with intent to kill in a Jan. 26 incident that left a 21-year-old man paralyzed from the waist down. Police recovered three handguns and a TEC-9 submachine gun at her home.
"This is a vigilante antic that went awry," Winston Robinson, commander of the 7th District, said of the shooting. " . . . This was an innocent man, and now he's paralyzed."
In February, police arrested Erskine Moore, the boyfriend of one of Lipscomb's daughters, in the crime, in the 2400 block of Elvans Road in Southeast Washington. But they said at the time--in a Washington Post profile of the case--that other family members might be arrested as the investigation continued.
Yesterday, police said they had enough evidence to show that Lipscomb--whom they identified by her most recent married name, Barbara Ann Martin--was also a shooter that January evening. It was just two days after the funeral of her son, Le'Pierre Clemons, 19, who was hit by a spray of bullets in the same Southeast neighborhood.
The 21-year-old man whom Lipscomb, a grandmother and former assistant manager in the D.C. Housing Authority, is accused of shooting was hit three times by bullets from a .40-caliber gun. One bullet lodged in his spine, causing paralysis, police said. He was in the hospital for months and continues to undergo treatment.
The break in the case came in recent months as the victim struggled to identify the assailant. It all came together this week, a combination of victim and witness statements that secured arrest and search warrants, said Sgt. C.V. Morris.
Lipscomb was arrested yesterday in Prince George's County and waived extradition. If convicted, she would face two to 15 years in prison.
Among the guns police confiscated were two that belonged to Lipscomb. "She had the 9mm and a .38 revolver," Morris said. "That surprised me, considering she said she was going to be in the Million Mom March against gun violence and all that."
Morris said he had verbally sparred with Lipscomb before, when she said officers weren't working hard enough to find her son's killer.
"A man in a mask killed your son," Morris said he told her. "That's one of the hardest crimes to solve."
Police made an arrest in her son's slaying April 5, almost three months after he was shot. Police say Daniel William Jackson Jr., 20, known as DJ, fired repeatedly at the teenager. The two had grown up together.
Robinson, the police commander, said the case shows the damage that can be wrought when people try to find justice on their own. "We wish that concerned citizens would work with us in the District of Columbia and by no means take matters in their own hands," he said."
© 2000 The Washington Post Company