D.C. Car Bomb Attempt?
First responders arrive at the scene of a SUV that crashed into the lobby of a building at Connecticut Avenue and L Street NW, Washington, D.C., Friday evening, June 8, 2012. Photo courtesy: Maureen Mathis. North of Lafayette Park (see " Fayette Factor "), the patio at the Connecticut Avenue location of Morton's The Steakhouse overlooks Washington D.C.'s infamous K Street Corridor, and the Bar is known locally as a relaxing retreat for the government elite. But the calm was disturbed Friday evening, about 7:30-7:45 pm. One floor below, chaos visited. “I felt a crash,” said a female eyewitness who was in the bar area of Morton’s The Steakhouse. “I kind of heard it.” She said someone in their group asked facetiously: “Is the building collapsing? Should we try to get out?” A vehicle had smashed through plate glass and into the building, one floor below the bar, on the southwest corner of Connecticut Avenue and L Street NW. It came to a stop at a building column in the lo...