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Police: Father shoots and stabs daughter in Md. shooting
Two people were shot and a man and his 3-year-old daughter are dead after Prince George’s County responded to the report of a double-shooting in Temple Hills, Saturday morning.
Authorities responded to the 4200 block of Farmer Place in Temple Hills, where a man shot a woman and a man. Both of the victims have life-threatening injuries and were taken to the hospital, police said.
The investigation shows while police were still at the scene of the shooting, they started pursuing the suspect/shooter, who was driving a Nissan Altima, authorities said.
The suspect stopped at Beech Rd. and Branch Ave., where an exchange of gunfire happened, police said. The suspect then stopped again in the 4600 block of Branch Avenue, where another exchange of gunfire happened, police said. The suspect was shot and killed, authorities said.
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Prince George’s school sports facilities trail Montgomery
It’s happening slower than most have hoped for, but Prince George’s County’s public high school’s are showing some progress when it comes to improving their athletic facilities.
It’s hard to tell when you look at the relatively quick progress being made in neighboring Montgomery County, but Prince George’s County Public Schools Director of Interscholastic Athletics Earl Hawkins said you can’t compare the two counties.
“We don’t operate the same,” Hawkins said. “We really don’t operate the same, and financially, I don’t know how they stack up to us, but I think they have more resources right now in terms of money.”
Montgomery County does have more financial resources than Prince George’s. MCPS allocated $7.8 million last fiscal year to its athletic programs, which represent about .35 percent of its $2.23 billion operating budget. In the same time frame, PGCPS allocated nearly $4.4 million to athletics, which is only .26 percent of the county’s $1.687 billion budget.
While unable to provide an average amount of money spent last year by each of the 22 high schools with varsity teams in Prince George’s, Hawkins said that each school received a $17,000 allocation for expenses, which he said they don’t have a lot of.
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