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Police say Richard Peeks was doing yard work at his home on Elkhorn Lane Monday when a man dressed as a FedEx employee approached him and asked for water. When Peeks tried to oblige, he was confronted with a gun.

Peeks’ neighbor, Troy Lester, watched the violence unfold from his home.

“I look out the window and I see my neighbor run across the street and he’s screaming ‘get out of my house!'”

Peeks was in the garage preparing to mow his lawn when Lester saw a delivery man from upstairs.

“I just mainly remember seeing the purple FedEx shirt and the guy with a box,” he says.

A second man, also wearing a FedEx shirt, approached.

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The three gambling companies hoping to win Maryland’s sixth and final casino license in Prince George’s County cleared a critical regulatory hurdle Thursday when the state’s Lottery and Gaming Control Commission declared that all three are qualified to proceed with their proposals.

At a hearing in Baltimore to consider “the integrity, financial stability and responsibility” of the casino operators and their principals, the commissioners voted unanimously to allow the three bids to go forward, but not before concerns were expressed about two of the bidders — Greenwood Racing and MGM Resorts — and their relationships with convicted felons and, in MGM’s case, organized crime influences in Asia.

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