WASHINGTON, D.C. — The man charged in Sunday night’s shooting of a National Guard soldier on Barracks Row in Washington is headed toward federal court, and the hookah bar where the trouble started faces a city liquor board review on Wednesday.
Jerrell Jackson, 41, of Southeast Washington, was booked on four counts: firearm possession by a felon, carrying a pistol with no license, assaulting police and emergency workers, and assault with a dangerous weapon. He had been due for arraignment in D.C. Superior Court on Tuesday, but the case was instead referred to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District. That office says it is still weighing charges, and nothing had been filed in federal court by Tuesday evening.
D.C. police say Guard troops parked nearby stepped in when a fight broke out near 8th Street Southeast just after 11 p.m., and that Jackson pointed a gun at them. Three soldiers fired and hit him. One soldier, part of a Georgia unit, took a bullet in the leg and has been released from the hospital.
Police closed Cafe 8 on Monday using the city’s 2005 emergency liquor license suspension law, which limits such shutdowns to 96 hours while the Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration reviews them. Ward 6 Council member Charles Allen had pushed for the closure, pointing to a string of earlier problems tied to the business.
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