Moco Headlines: A Somber Anniversary, Capital Crescent Trail Update

Catch up on news you may have missed this week including an involuntary manslaughter conviction for a Germantown man, a new recommendation to route a Bethesda trail above ground once the Purple Line is built, the Lululemon homicide anniversary and news on a family’s pleading for information on a traffic accident that killed a Wheaton woman this week.

Community members gathered today at Lululemon to honor Jayna Murray, the 30-year-old employee brutally murdered at the downtown Bethesda shop March 11, 2011. Today,

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A Montgomery County Council Transportation Committee recommended routing the Capital Crescent Trail at street level across Wisconsin Avenue when the planned Purple Line is built—rather than in a tunnel beneath the busy thoroughfare above the planned 16-mile light rail line. 

A Germantown man was convicted Tuesday of beating his friend to death during a Fourth of July weekend cookout. Brenden Lamont "BJ" Dashiell, 25, was found guilty of killing Justin Eugene Carter on July 2, 2011, during a fistfight at Carter’s home in Gaithersburg. According to court testimony, the men, who had been drinking, started off “play wrestling” but the rough housing devolved into the fatal fistfight. Read the full story at.

Details surrounding Wheaton resident Nelvis Garcia’s death on a Colesville street are still murky. Garcia was traveling east on Randolph Road when her car may have made contact with an unknown vehicle. Police believe the unknown car was speed racing with another car, neither of which remained on the scene after Garcia’s car flipped over on a sidewalk, killing the wife and mother of three.

Her pink Cadillac may be familiar to residents of North Potomac, but in addition to pink cars, Mary Kay Cosmetics has given Pam Klickna-Powell a long, enriched and very successful career in business. .

Unsightly—and often unnecessary—attachments to utility poles may soon be a thing of the past in the Town of Somerset, following a meeting of representatives of Pepco, Comcast and Verizon with the Town of Somerset Council. 

The Montgomery County Council voted to add some language to Kensington's controversial sector plan this week, aiming to strengthen its provisions on allowing extra height for developers. The plan will go up for a final council vote on March 20. .