More Twists in the De'Onte Rawlings Story

Tragedy continues to follow the family of De'Onte Rawlings and Mayor Adrian Fenty is again caught in the middle of a dispute with some DC Police Officers.


Here's what I know...A relative who had been staying in the home of De'Onte Rawlings died a few days ago and two uniformed DC police officers responded to the residence in Southeast to process or investigate the "natural causes". This is routine as Police must show up at any kind of death in the city.

Also showing up at the Rawlings home was Greg Lattimer the family attorney who this week told me he will file a 100 million dollar lawsuit against DC police and the City for the police slaying of the 14 year old De'Onte Rawlings.

Stay with me on this....

According to two sources Mayor Adrian Fenty calls the Rawlings residence while everyone is there.

He is returning a call Mister Rawlings had made to him to complain about a relative getting a parking ticket during De'Onte's funeral two weeks ago. Mayor Fenty had used funds from his constituent service coffers to pay for De'Onte's funeral.

This angered DC Police as did the Mayor's public comments immediately following the slaying. The FOP had accused Fenty of taking sides with the Rawlings family against the two police officers involved in the shooting.

According to my sources who were in the room, Fenty tells Mister Rawlings he can't do anything about the tickets. The Mayor also expresses shock at hearing that the family has been hit by yet another death. Mister Rawlings, on his cell phone, had the Mayor on "speaker" so everyone in the room could hear.


This is where it gets interesting...

Everyone agrees, Mr Rawlings goes into a rant, telling Fenty "I want those two police arrested for killing De"Onte".

This is where the parties disagree on what happened; Fenty, according to the two uniformed Officers who relayed their concerns to others, tells Mr Rawlings that "We'll Get them".

Attorney Lattimer disputes that. He says the Mayor told Mister Rawlings that a Grand Jury would probably get the case and there would have to first be indictments.

The two uniformed officers were adamant and reported what they heard to the FOP. One of them said they were so upset by the Mayor's conversation they left the room.

Mayor Fenty has said repeatedly the shooting death of the Southeast teen "raises questions"; but he challenged anyone to find and statement where he has sided against police.

Fenty brought in the Justice department to investigate the shooting. He hasn't added to his earlier remarks even with the Medical Examiner's report that concludes Rawlings was shot in the back of the head and his hands had no gun powder residue which suggests he hadn't fired a gun. Police say the teen was killed during a running gun battle with police.

I've got a call into the Mayor's office...will post later with more info on this...