reSee.it Video Transcript AI Summary
Speaker 0: On 08/03/2025 at about 02:53AM, Sunday morning at the U Street corridor and Fourteenth Street, a very popular hangout nightlife area, Ethan Levine, a 22 year old, and several of his friends were standing outside of Sonoco gas station when they were approached by a large group of teens, individuals who confronted them and began to assault them. Lawrence Cotton Powell, who is 19 years of age, along with Anthony Taylor, who is 18 years of age, are now charged with assaulting Levine. Cotton Powell was stomping on Levine's head. Levine was able to get up momentarily, but the crowd chased him and got him down again. They continued to attack Levine while he was on the ground and then proceeded to rob him of his sneakers and his watch. The group then, after the robbery and assault of Ethan Levine, walked in the direction of where another crime occurred within minutes.
You have heard of this crime. Edward Corstein, a 19 year old Doge person who was working in the administration, was walking a young woman to her car when he was approached in the 1400 block Of Swan Street Northwest. Approximately 10 suspects approached him and as they did, he pushed the young woman into the car and he was protecting her from the group before he was then attacked by multiple suspects who then punched him repeatedly causing significant injuries to him. They got him on the ground. And as they were doing so, they demanded the car from the woman who was inside the car and had already locked the car. They were banging on the car. They were pulling the car door, trying to get the car open, and we're telling the woman in the car to hand over the keys. And the woman was, as I said, able to lock the car door so they were unable to gain entry. And it was fortuitous that someone from the Metropolitan Police Department was on patrol. He happened to pull onto the block, and he witnessed the suspects actually assaulting Coracine who was on the ground lying next to the car.
The juveniles fled, but within a short period of time, two 15 year olds were arrested and they were taken into the family court by the attorney general's office.