Even though the official investigation continues, at least two Prince George’s County Police officials lived right across from the Feb. 16 street racing incident, this correspondent learned.
What surprised the residents most is to find two police cars parked right outside the two officers’ homes on Holy Way road–one of the officers belongs to the Morningside Police and the second belongs to the Prince George’s County Police Department.
Residents have named the patch of the highway where the accident occurred “Death Alley.”
The street race on Feb. 16 left eight people dead — seven from Southern Maryland and one from Montgomery County — and six injured in the worst-ever street racing accident in Maryland’s history.
The presence of officers homes so close to the crash site has raised concerns among neighbors as to why the police officers remained silent spectators all these years.
Residents who live near the Indian Head Highway and Pine Drive, the scene of the gruesome tragedy when 20-year-old Darren Jamar Bullock rammed his Crown Victoria into spectators on standing on the highway, said they have been complaining to police for a long time to no avail.
“How is it possible these police officers living here never heard the racing engines that has kept all of us awake all night?” asked Fred Levarity, who lives very close to the crash site.
Prince George’s County Police Department officials refused to divulge identity of the two officers who live in the Livingston Grove neighborhood.
The amount of time that the county police took to reach the scene was also abnormally long. Prince George’s police said the first call they received was at 3:01 a.m. but that they do not have any accurate record when their first officer arrived on the scene.
“We had a computer break-down that night,” said Cpl. Arvel Lewis, a spokesperson for the Prince George’s County Police Department.