Yet another shocking violent crime has been committed in broad daylight in Montgomery County, a disturbing new trend in the County's six-year crime wave that has picked up steam this spring. An adult male was fatally shot outside of the Marriott North Bethesda Hotel and Conference Center at 5701 Marinelli Road in Rockville around 11:37 AM this morning. Yes, that's AM, not PM. One would like to assume it would be safe to walk outside this hotel at 11:37 PM. It's astonishing that one now must be hesitant to do so just before lunchtime under bright sunshine.
According to Montgomery County police, officers were dispatched to respond to a report of a shooting outside the hotel. Upon arrival, first responders found an adult male in "serious condition." The victim was subsequently declared deceased, and police say they are investigating the case as a homicide.
@TheDMVLive reports on X that the victim was shot in the back of the head outside the hotel around 11:35 AM, and that the alleged shooter fled on foot toward the White Flint Metro station across Rockville Pike.
Whether it is a gunfight inside a Silver Spring grocery store or outside of a Westbard Avenue bowling alley, a gun being fired at students in a downtown Bethesda park at lunchtime, or someone being shot in broad daylight outside a hotel in White Flint at 11:35 AM, these things were not happening in Montgomery County twenty - or even ten - years ago.
What is happening to our community, and why do we keep electing the people who have done this to us?
My experience has been a lot of sketchy people in that area in the evening. It was scary waiting for the bus (that never showed up!). Crime committed in broad daylight is much scarier.
ReplyDeleteIn the Heat of the Day.
Delete2:41 In Md only thugs are allowed to use the heat of the day.
DeleteI think we all know the answers to this.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a hit, not some random act of violence.
ReplyDeleteThe sort of activity associate with Dems and lax LE.
DeleteCinco so true.
DeleteTerrific. And the Left in this county won't apologize for their defund, demoralize the police stance of recent? I'll wait.
ReplyDeleteAnd the right just keeps making guns easier to obtain.
DeleteIt's always the gun. Completely ignorant and happily apathetic.
DeleteMADD made a big mistake going after the drivers of cars, shoulda just blamed the cars, that'll have worked!
DeleteAnd nearly every campaign yard sign you see around town are for Democratic candidates to the county council. Do we really expect things will change when the worst county exec, Elrich, finally leaves office? Don't bet on it. Keep electing these fools who care about illegal alien rights, high taxes and fees and banning things like gas leaf blowers and nothing that improves our lives or makes us safer. Thanks voters! .
ReplyDeleteHe won't leave. He is running for councilmember at-large.
DeleteIt's unlikely either the victim or the alleged shooter are residents, this is obviously just a fluke that happened to have happened here. It could have been anywhere. This happens all over there is no correlation to location.
ReplyDeleteProbably over weed at the dispensary and ultimately spilled out across the street. I'm sure all the diners eating lunch at all the fancy establishments in RockTownCtr heard the shots fired...
ReplyDeleteA shot in broad daylight!
Delete11:38 must not even live here or is blissfully ignorant. Things happening these days never happened just 10 years ago. When is the last time there were three sexual assaults in DT Bethesda with a couple of months. Progressives keep telling everyone how much safer it is while crime happens more frequently. Soft on crime policies don't work, period. The Fairfax AG was on Capitol Hill trying to defend himself from his own actions was completely embarrassed. McCarthy should be equally embarrassed but liberals have no shame.
ReplyDeleteHardly:
Deletehttps://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/03/11/moco-states-attorney-john-mccarthy-seeks-reelection-to-sixth-term/
“We are seizing upon educational opportunities to go out and try to use education, not arrests. . ., it would be a much safer community,” McCarthy said
Good name for a band: The Rampant Speculators.
ReplyDeleteMaybe playing on the same bill as The Knee-Jerk Finger-Pointers.
Not to worry, the MCPD will include this incident in their daily crime report.
ReplyDeleteWe need a lot more police in this county and in DC. This is sickening.
ReplyDeleteThey have taken the role of crime reporters.
Delete3:05 - Cinco, what are you even talking about?
ReplyDeleteYou know damn well what he's talking about. Don't play dumb.
Delete7:47 is what's wrong with the left getting all worked up over an inanimate object while feeling good about releasing repeate offenders who use these tools to prey on society.
DeleteThanks elrich & jawando!!
ReplyDeleteDoing what they do best.
DeleteThe dynamic duo?
DeleteThey do provide great leadership and service, don't they?
DeleteSomeone who is shot in the back of the head in a hotel parking lot in broad daylight, might well be victim of a targeted shooting, rather than victim of some random street crime gone nuclear. Just saying, reserve some of the apoplexy and dudgeon until police release further details.
ReplyDeleteCrime gone viral in an upward spiral like a cat who's feral putting us all in peril.
DeleteOr maybe not. Victim was apparently a homeless guy just walking through the parking lot. I stand corrected.
DeleteIf they can't 'make this guy' from hotel and especially Metro cameras then security at our new PL (Pipeline o' Crime) won't help us either. Our Popo need to make a strong showing and 'up the game' before we get eventually overtaken like SS and PGC.
ReplyDeleteDream on!
Delete8:49, my bet is a 'microaggression,' but it's more than likely we will never know, nor get to share bolo or news or updates with our cops/gubmint.
ReplyDeleteI miss when "gypsies" and massage parlors were the worst crimes in Montgomery County
ReplyDeleteHas all the markings of a professional hit job
ReplyDeleteSo many comments talk to libs this and that, especially in the county.
ReplyDeleteI’m just reading this.. Tennessee. 20 months in Federal prison for years of scamming 1,000s of people… it’s nation wide.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/15/politics/woman-scam-hopeful-parents-adopt-sentenced
For all of you clowns out there posting that it was a hit or they/he weren't local and the area (MoCo) is safe, you are delusional. It happened here. It happened during broad daylight. Right under everyone's radar, so "they" are amongst us, walking around and blending in just like all the terror cells individuals. Why does that not bother you? Why do you not acknowledge that?
ReplyDeleteSaid the court jester!
DeleteI truly have no concerns walking around here at any time other than after midnight.
DeleteCrime knows no time of day you pearl clutching morons.
Delete5:34 "They" sure sounds like the racist dog whistle...
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