- Dec 13, 2013
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Kent Hoshiko said:A man just walked into the Comet restaurant in DC with a rifle. No shots heard. I'm ok, hiding in the red fox coffeeshop next door.
https://twitter.com/Kenttouch_this/status/805504814545309696
DC police arrested a man who allegedly walked through the Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Chevy Chase with a gun on Sunday afternoon. The man, who was not identified, entered the pizza restaurant about 3 PM and proceeded to walk toward the back room where some patrons were playing table tennis.
The gunman, who a witness described as a tall blond male who appeared to be in his early 20s, did not fire his weapon, and no injuries have been reported. The restaurant’s staff moved quickly to call the police and evacuate the restaurant.
“A lot of us saw he had a gun and we all started getting our families out,” says Sharif Silmi, a Maryland lawyer who was at the restaurant with his wife and three children. “The staff came and got us.”
During the election season Comet became the unlikely center of a far-right conspiracy theory predicated on hacked e-mails from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. The restaurant, which also hosts music shows, announced on Thursday it would add security to its music shows following intense, mostly remotely conducted harassment of the venue and its employees.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/12/04/man-with-rifle-arrested-at-comet-ping-pong/