Washington, D.C., Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser said she won’t meet with city resident John Evans, who lost three sons to violence in the nation’s capital. Increasing violence, often perpetrated by teenagers and gangs throughout the city, has left many Washington residents feeling as though they are under siege. On Wednesday, Bowser was asked during a press conference if she had any plans to meet with Evans regarding the impact city violence has had on his family. She coldly responded, “No.”
Evans has tragically lost three sons over the past decade. On April 4, his 14-year-old son Avion Evans was shot and killed at the city’s Brookland Metro station. Eight years ago, another of Evans’s sons, Johnny Evans III, was stabbed to death outside the Deanwood Metro station. Last May, Avion’s half-brother John Coleman was shot and killed on M Street Northeast while doing handiwork for a neighbor.
The grieving father says he’s asked to speak with city officials, including Bowser, about the community’s crime concerns and the devastating impact it has had on his family; however — until Wednesday — they had not received any response. Bowser’s response that she wouldn’t meet with Evans appears to be a reversal of comments she made to the press on April 10. “I’m not going to talk about their concerns with you,” Bowser said, adding: “I’ll talk to them about it because, obviously, that’s troubling to us.”
Residents of Washington, D.C., have faced skyrocketing violence since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2017, gun violence in the city has risen by 40 percent. This past week, shootings across the nation’s capital resulted in three people being killed. In a particularly concerning incident, 71 shots were fired on Spring Road just two miles away from some of the city’s most tony addresses.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is asked if she will talk to John Edwards, a resident who lost 3 kids to violence in the city.
Her response? "NO" pic.twitter.com/tLCMSXtdzz
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