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Slain Germantown woman remembered at vigil Accused killer used mail-order gun in shooting n
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A Hagerstown man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in a Target store parking lot in Germantown on June 1 was ordered held without bond on Friday. Defendant Donald Wayne Bricker Jr., 27, illegally ordered a gun by mail that arrived on June 1, said Assistant District Attorney Deborah Feinstein at the Friday bond review. Bricker already had purchased 100 rounds of ammunition for the “black powder” gun, an unregulated replica of an antique handgun, before using the gun to shoot Mariam Folashade Adebayo, 24, as she walked away from his truck in the parking lot. Bricker then walked up to Adebayo and shot her a second time, according to police and prosecutors. “He shot her twice in public, which was caught on surveillance video in the Target parking lot. ... She went to the ground and he shot her again,” Feinstein said. Bricker is a registered sex offender due to a thirddegree sex offense in 2008, according to online records. “He knew he couldn’t purchase [a gun through the mail],” Feinstein said. Bricker was arrested several hours after the shooting after crashing his car at the end of a police pursuit, and was charged on Thursday. Bricker was working in the home improvement business and going to college at the time of his arrest, said Assistant Public Defender Aubrey Dillon, who represented Bricker at the hearing. “In light [of the circumstances], I have no choice but to hold the defendant without bond,” said District Court Judge John Moffett, who set Bricker’s next court appearance for June 26.
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Molly Gillespie of Germantown (left) is held by another unidentified person as mourners gather at a vigil for Shadé Adebayo, a young woman recently killed in Germantown. The gathering filled a corner of the Seneca Valley High School campus on June 3 in Germantown where Adebayo once attended.
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Hundreds of friends and family members joined together for a candle-
light vigil June 3 for a young Germantown woman who was fatally shot in a Target store parking lot two days earlier. “I cried for three hours straight,” said friend Burnett Crawford of Columbia after he heard about the death of his friend Mariam Foloshade Adebayo, 24, known to her family and friends as Shadé Marie. “It didn’t hit me until the words
came out of my mouth,” said Crawford, who graduated from Damascus High School in 2005 and was part of Adebayo’s group of friends. “We hung out all the time,” he said. “It is a close-knit group.” County police arrested a Hagerstown man, Donald Wayne Bricker Jr., 27, and charged him with first-degree
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Saturday’s dedication of Wilson Wims Elementary School in Clarksburg could have been a Wims family reunion, as many family members came to see their relative honored. The dedication did not just extoll the virtues of a Clarksburg and Montgomery County community activist, but principal Sean McGee also pointed out the school’s unique design features, allowing it to earn LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
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Residents of the Clarksburg community got a first look at the proposed Active Recreation area of Ovid Hazen Wells Recre-
band Ovid. The active recreation area is about 30 acres, said Kimberly Paniati, an engineer with the Montgomery County Department of Parks who ran the meeting. A stipulation of the donation was that the carousel be moved to Clarksburg when there were enough residents to support it, said Pat Tregoning, who knew
the Wells family. “It’s in the will and it’s in the deed, too,” Tregoning said of the carousel plan. She said she has been following the Clarksburg Master Plan development, keeping an eye out to be sure the carousel did come to Clarksburg.
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Poolesville Friday on the Commons begins Weekly series begins with Summer Carnival
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A day early but not a minute late, the Town of Poolesville and the Poolesville Elementary
School PTA will host a Summer Carnival from 3:30 to 9 p.m. Friday at Whalen Commons, 19701 Fisher Ave. The Summer Carnival is the first of the Friday on the Commons series of celebrations planned for each Friday evening through August at Whalen Commons. Friday’s event, a celebra-
tion of the end of the school year, was planned before Montgomery County Public Schools extended its school year. One day was added to the school calendar to make up for this winter’s weather-related closings. Students officially finish school Monday, rather than Friday as originally planned.
The Carnival will include inflatables, music, food and entertainment for the whole family. With the exception of events scheduled this week and Aug. 28, Friday on the Commons events will run from 6 to 10 p.m. “Each event will have a
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ational Park June 3 at Rocky Hill Middle School. Montgomery Parks presented a preliminary plan for the park at 12001 Skylark Road, including a new home for the carousel now at Wheaton Regional Park. The carousel and the 290 acre park site were donated to Montgomery Parks in 1981 by Hallie Wells in honor of her hus-
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Gold certification. LEED is a building certification program of the U.S. Green Building Council. “I think [Wims] would be proud of what we’ve done here,” McGee said. Dozens of students, parents and faculty members attended the morning ceremony which started with a presentation by the school’s fourth grade chorus. During the ceremony, the building, which opened in August 2014, was officially presented to the Montgomery County Board of Education by Greg Overkamp, an architect with Grimm & Parker, the firm which designed the building and oversaw its construction. Board president Patricia
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