F.C. Resident Killed in D.C. Shooting
Longtime City of Falls Church resident Barbara A. Carl, 47, of Poplar Drive, was shot and killed in Northwest Washington, D.C., while a passenger in a car in the 2400 block of Ninth Street near Howard University late Tuesday night. According to reports, D.C. Police said the incident may have been an attempted carjacking. The police reported that six men, one armed with a handgun, approached the car around 10:30 p.m. As the driver, a man in his 30’s, began to drive away, several large-caliber rounds were fired at him. One bullet struck Carl on the right side of her torso. The driver drove her to the Howard University Hospital where she died about an hour later. Carl was the mother of two boys. “She had a good heart and loved her boys very much,” said her neighbor, Stacy Hennessey.
