Assault in Frederick

Corporal Doug · Aug 11, 2014

To all my fellow veterans: I witnessed a brutal assault on a 20 year Army veteran that attempted to stop an armed robbery right outside of my apartment. I rushed outside to the group of 10-15 subjects which subsequently fled the area after I identified myself and order them to stop. All subjects fled to an adjacent nearby apartment and where they were quickly apprehended by Frederick City Police.

The male victim and the victims he was trying to protect were injured in the brawl, but the veteran sustained severe trauma to his head and was flown to shock trauma with life threatening injuries. I will post more information as it is made available. Please keep this soldier in your prayers. He has a long fight ahead of him and needs our support.

Also, lots of respect to the Frederick City officers for their expeditious response and very quick apprehension of all parties involved.

Second Amendment · Aug 11, 2014

Good for you and thank you for your service.

Speed3 · Aug 11, 2014

Wow I'm sorry to hear this!!! I live in the area, can you give a rough idea as to where this occured?

SRD · Aug 11, 2014

Damn.

Glad the dumb ass' had the mob mentality since they stuck together when fleeing so they all got arrested (hopefully all of them).Best wishes to the victims.

Corporal Doug · Aug 11, 2014

Speed3 said:
Wow I'm sorry to hear this!!! I live in the area, can you give a rough idea as to where this occured?

Key parkway area. Still nothing in lame stream media though.

ma_deuce · Aug 11, 2014

Googled it and this thread is all that showed. Top-quality reporting. Looks like that Key Parkway area has a lot of stuff going on.

K.C.Dean · Aug 11, 2014

Thanks to you and the Army vet. for stopping the attack. I will keep him in my prayers. I will look forward to updates. Hopefully he will come out of this with no mental or physical problems.

Corporal Doug · Aug 11, 2014

I have to say though, the only reason the thugs ran off was probably because I was armed, he was not and caught the rough end of the deal.

Corporal Doug · Aug 11, 2014

Oh and FPD had a ridiculously fast response time, I mean they arrived less than 2 minutes from the time I got downstairs after they ran off.

The EMTs, however, I am a but disappointed in how long they took

Whitey · Aug 11, 2014

Corporal Doug said:
Key parkway area. Still nothing in lame stream media though.

My first guess was Key Parkway. I had a friend live there for a year and she moved out as soon as the lease was up. My prayers for the good citizens, both you and him both.

CATMdude · Aug 11, 2014

Good job in running them off!

fidelity · Aug 11, 2014

Glad you were there, as at least the vet has a chance to pull through and the perpetrators were caught. Also glad that you were uninjured. Nothing in the FNP at this point (their breaking news is regarding Robin Williams :sad20:

).

I hope you update this thread if you learn of the vet's condition, and if there is anything this community can do to help.

myright · Aug 11, 2014

Corporal Doug
Please keep us informed. I would like to know if I can help in some way.Thank you for your continued service.

DaemonAssassin · Aug 11, 2014

Corporal Doug said:
Key parkway area. Still nothing in lame stream media though.

That doesn't surprised me, since the Key Parkway area has been going downhill for the past 15 years. There was a reason why people stopped going in to Fredericktowne Mall...

Corporal Doug said:
Oh and FPD had a ridiculously fast response time, I mean they arrived less than 2 minutes from the time I got downstairs after they ran off.

The EMTs, however, I am a but disappointed in how long they took

FPD patrols Key Parkway like no tomorrow. You may not see the marked units, but they are always close by.

Back in 2002ish, I was at a friend's apartment, just west of Waverly on Key Parkway. I saw somebody go out into the parking lot and light off a cracker (think M-98 cracker). Within 30 seconds there were 2 marked FPD units and 15 seconds after that they threw some random black guy down on the ground. They maced him and were demanding to know where the gang activity was. About 60 seconds after they had the guy down on the ground, another 4 marked FPD cars showed up and started scouring the area. I went out and told the officers that I saw somebody light of a firecracker but didn't know where they went. They picked the poor guy up and released him, after apologizing.

If the above is any indication from 2002, how bad do you think it has gotten in 12 years? The area around Westridge has gotten rather worse for the wear...

What company were the EMT's dispatched from? If it was Independent, then it is no surprise they were slacking.

joppaj · Aug 11, 2014

Nice work Doug. The vet will be in my prayers.

Ungermc · Aug 11, 2014

God speed for the recovery of this brave Vet! Thanks for the info Doug!

Klunatic · Aug 11, 2014

Nice work Doug :party29:

. Keep a watch on your six. They may be back.

Corporal Doug · Aug 11, 2014

http://www.cityoffrederick.com/CivicAlerts/#2583_SingleEntryView

Here is a downplayed version of what happened. Apparently only two were actually charged so far even though the others helped.

nathanbmiller · Aug 11, 2014

The city must have taken the info down. I am not able to find anything about it on the linked page.

aray · Aug 11, 2014

Glad you got involved. So few people are willing to do that today.

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