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Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon lifted a curfew in the capital's riot-torn neighborhoods on Thursday but said she would reinstate it if more signs of unrest surface. Although police said they had arrested 60 more people for violating the curfew Wednesday, the streets were mostly calm for a second consecutive night in the Mt. Pleasant and Adams-Morgan areas. Rioting broke out Sunday in the racially mixed neighborhoods after a black policewoman shot and wounded a Salvadoran man.

The Justice Department, reflecting government concern about questions of excessive force by U.S. Park Police, said Thursday that it will review the shooting death of a man who brandished a knife in front of the White House. The criminal section of the department's civil rights division does not usually get involved in potential brutality cases at such an early stage, but chief department spokesman Carl Stern said that representatives of the division and of U.S. Atty. Eric H. Holder Jr.'

Marcelino Corniel, the knife-wielding homeless man shot by police in front of the White House, died Wednesday night after undergoing two lengthy operations and remaining in critical condition for 36 hours. Corniel, 33, died from cardiac arrest in the intensive care unit at George Washington University Hospital, less than four blocks from the shooting scene, about 9 p.m. EST, said Rich James, a hospital spokesman. Corniel was shot once in the abdomen and once in his right leg by a uniformed U.S.

The Justice Department, reflecting government concern about questions of excessive force by U.S. Park Police, said Thursday that it will review the shooting death of a man who brandished a knife in front of the White House. The criminal section of the department's civil rights division does not usually get involved in potential brutality cases at such an early stage, but chief department spokesman Carl Stern said that representatives of the division and of U.S. Atty. Eric H. Holder Jr.'

A gunman who suffered delusions about being a general was shot to death Wednesday when he charged past Pentagon security guards and ran toward the National Military Command Center, authorities said. The FBI identified him as Dwain Wallace, 30, of Youngstown, Ohio. Pentagon sources said Wallace had told the guards that he "wanted to talk to somebody about missiles" before he bolted past the security checkpoint.

A homeless man brandishing a nine-inch knife was shot by a U.S. Park Police officer in front of the White House Tuesday, marking the third shooting outside the presidential residence in two months. Marcelino Corniel, 33, a Southern California native who had been camped in adjacent Lafayette Park, was shot in the chest and leg after charging across Pennsylvania Avenue about 9 a.m. and menacing a cordon of U.S. Park Police officers, authorities said.

A former Anaheim man brandishing a nine-inch knife was shot by a U.S. Park Police officer in front of the White House on Tuesday, marking the third shooting outside the presidential residence in two months. Marcelino Corniel, 33, a homeless man who had been camped in adjacent Lafayette Park, was shot in the chest and leg after charging across Pennsylvania Avenue about 9 a.m. and menacing a cordon of U.S. Park Police officers, authorities said.

The Justice Department, reflecting government concern about questions of excessive force by U.S. Park Police, said Thursday that it will review the shooting death of a man who brandished a knife in front of the White House. The criminal section of the department's civil rights division does not usually get involved in potential brutality cases at such an early stage, but chief department spokesman Carl Stern said that representatives of the division and of U.S. Atty. Eric H. Holder Jr.'

The Justice Department, reflecting government concern about questions of excessive force by U.S. Park Police, said Thursday that it will review the shooting death of a man who brandished a knife in front of the White House. The criminal section of the department's civil rights division does not usually get involved in potential brutality cases at such an early stage, but chief department spokesman Carl Stern said that representatives of the division and of U.S. Atty. Eric H. Holder Jr.'

As police enforced a dusk-to-dawn curfew Tuesday to prevent a third night of rioting in the nation's capital, Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon acknowledged the need to address escalating tensions between the city's growing Latino community and its predominantly black police force. Dixon, the first black female mayor of a major city, imposed the 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew and announced plans to form a multicultural task force to assess problems within the Mt.

Marcelino Corniel, the knife-wielding homeless man shot by police in front of the White House, died Wednesday night after undergoing two lengthy operations and remaining in critical condition for 36 hours. Corniel, 33, died from cardiac arrest in the intensive care unit at George Washington University Hospital, less than four blocks from the shooting scene, about 9 p.m. EST, said Rich James, a hospital spokesman. Corniel was shot once in the abdomen and once in his right leg by a uniformed U.S.

A homeless man brandishing a nine-inch knife was shot by a U.S. Park Police officer in front of the White House Tuesday, marking the third shooting outside the presidential residence in two months. Marcelino Corniel, 33, a Southern California native who had been camped in adjacent Lafayette Park, was shot in the chest and leg after charging across Pennsylvania Avenue about 9 a.m. and menacing a cordon of U.S. Park Police officers, authorities said.

A former Anaheim man brandishing a nine-inch knife was shot by a U.S. Park Police officer in front of the White House on Tuesday, marking the third shooting outside the presidential residence in two months. Marcelino Corniel, 33, a homeless man who had been camped in adjacent Lafayette Park, was shot in the chest and leg after charging across Pennsylvania Avenue about 9 a.m. and menacing a cordon of U.S. Park Police officers, authorities said.

Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon lifted a curfew in the capital's riot-torn neighborhoods on Thursday but said she would reinstate it if more signs of unrest surface. Although police said they had arrested 60 more people for violating the curfew Wednesday, the streets were mostly calm for a second consecutive night in the Mt. Pleasant and Adams-Morgan areas. Rioting broke out Sunday in the racially mixed neighborhoods after a black policewoman shot and wounded a Salvadoran man.

As police enforced a dusk-to-dawn curfew Tuesday to prevent a third night of rioting in the nation's capital, Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon acknowledged the need to address escalating tensions between the city's growing Latino community and its predominantly black police force. Dixon, the first black female mayor of a major city, imposed the 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew and announced plans to form a multicultural task force to assess problems within the Mt.

A gunman who suffered delusions about being a general was shot to death Wednesday when he charged past Pentagon security guards and ran toward the National Military Command Center, authorities said. The FBI identified him as Dwain Wallace, 30, of Youngstown, Ohio. Pentagon sources said Wallace had told the guards that he "wanted to talk to somebody about missiles" before he bolted past the security checkpoint.