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Alexandre
Apr 30, 2015, 3:55:03 PM4/30/15
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FORT MEADE, Md.: Two cross-dressing men who were fired upon by
National Security Agency police when they disobeyed orders at a
heavily guarded gate had just stolen an SUV from a man who had
picked them up and checked into a motel, police said Tuesday.
The FBI said the driver, Ricky Shawatza Hall, 27, died at the
scene, and his passenger remained hospitalized Tuesday with
unspecified injuries. An NSA police officer was treated for
minor injuries and released.
NSA police opened fire on the stolen sports utility vehicle
after Hall failed to follow instructions for leaving a
restricted area, authorities said.
As it turns out, Hall and his passenger had just driven off in
the SUV of a 60-year-old Baltimore man, who told investigators
that he had picked up the two strangers in Baltimore and brought
them to a Howard County motel.
“We can’t confirm there was any sexual activity involved,” a
Howard County Police spokeswoman, Mary Phelan, told the
Associated Press on Tuesday.
The SUV’s owner, who has not been publicly identified, said they
checked into a room at the Terrace Motel in Elkridge at about
7:30 a.m. Monday, and that he used the bathroom about an hour
later. When he came out, the men were gone, along with his car
keys.
He called police to report the stolen car, and only minutes
later, just before 9 a.m., the men took a highway exit that
leads directly to a restricted area at the NSA entrance at Fort
Meade.
The two men were dressed as women, but “not in an attempt to
disguise themselves from authorities,” FBI spokeswoman Amy
Thoreson said.
Hall has a lengthy criminal record that includes assault and
robbery charges. In 2013, Hall was charged after he assaulted a
woman and stole a bottle of methadone from her pocket. Court
papers show that Hall had been wearing a yellow dress at the
time of the assault and was mistaken for a woman. In 2014, Hall
was charged with robbery after stealing a vest and skirt from a
Baltimore clothing store.
The FBI has ruled out terrorism, and no one has explained yet
why the men ended up in a restricted NSA area.
However, the new timeline suggests they may have simply taken a
wrong turn while fleeing the motel, about 12 minutes away.
Once so secretive that it was known as “No Such Agency,” the NSA
is now in some ways just another part of the suburban sprawl
between Baltimore and Washington. Thousands of daily commuters
who traverse the Baltimore-Washington Parkway pass its heavily
secured campus at Fort Meade each day. About 11,000 military
personnel and about 29,000 civilian employees with security
clearances work inside the barbed wire.
The NSA is Maryland’s largest employer, and Rep. C.A. Dutch
Ruppersberger, whose district includes the NSA campus, said its
convenient location is critical.
He also said the NSA gate is far enough removed from the highway
that it’s easy to avoid ending up there by mistake.
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FORT MEADE, Md.: Two cross-dressing men who were fired upon by
National Security Agency police when they disobeyed orders at a
heavily guarded gate had just stolen an SUV from a man who had
picked them up and checked into a motel, police said Tuesday.
The FBI said the driver, Ricky Shawatza Hall, 27, died at the
scene, and his passenger remained hospitalized Tuesday with
unspecified injuries. An NSA police officer was treated for
minor injuries and released.
NSA police opened fire on the stolen sports utility vehicle
after Hall failed to follow instructions for leaving a
restricted area, authorities said.
As it turns out, Hall and his passenger had just driven off in
the SUV of a 60-year-old Baltimore man, who told investigators
that he had picked up the two strangers in Baltimore and brought
them to a Howard County motel.
“We can’t confirm there was any sexual activity involved,” a
Howard County Police spokeswoman, Mary Phelan, told the
Associated Press on Tuesday.
The SUV’s owner, who has not been publicly identified, said they
checked into a room at the Terrace Motel in Elkridge at about
7:30 a.m. Monday, and that he used the bathroom about an hour
later. When he came out, the men were gone, along with his car
keys.
He called police to report the stolen car, and only minutes
later, just before 9 a.m., the men took a highway exit that
leads directly to a restricted area at the NSA entrance at Fort
Meade.
The two men were dressed as women, but “not in an attempt to
disguise themselves from authorities,” FBI spokeswoman Amy
Thoreson said.
Hall has a lengthy criminal record that includes assault and
robbery charges. In 2013, Hall was charged after he assaulted a
woman and stole a bottle of methadone from her pocket. Court
papers show that Hall had been wearing a yellow dress at the
time of the assault and was mistaken for a woman. In 2014, Hall
was charged with robbery after stealing a vest and skirt from a
Baltimore clothing store.
The FBI has ruled out terrorism, and no one has explained yet
why the men ended up in a restricted NSA area.
However, the new timeline suggests they may have simply taken a
wrong turn while fleeing the motel, about 12 minutes away.
Once so secretive that it was known as “No Such Agency,” the NSA
is now in some ways just another part of the suburban sprawl
between Baltimore and Washington. Thousands of daily commuters
who traverse the Baltimore-Washington Parkway pass its heavily
secured campus at Fort Meade each day. About 11,000 military
personnel and about 29,000 civilian employees with security
clearances work inside the barbed wire.
The NSA is Maryland’s largest employer, and Rep. C.A. Dutch
Ruppersberger, whose district includes the NSA campus, said its
convenient location is critical.
He also said the NSA gate is far enough removed from the highway
that it’s easy to avoid ending up there by mistake.
http://www.ohio.com/news/nation/dress-wearing-man-killed-by-nsa-
police-had-lengthy-record-
1.579434?cache=18961415304345%2525252525252525252f
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