Sean Nicholas Green
November 15th, 2008Via: Washington Post:
Oxon Hill Man Fatally Shot at Stop Light
By Aaron C. Davis
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 13, 2008; 6:53 PM
An Oxon Hill man who worked with sensitive national security information was fatally shot Wednesday evening as he sat in his car at a stop light near his home, according to police, family members and coworkers.
Sean Nicholas Green, 31, had stopped at a red light at about 5:31 p.m. when a man approached his car and fired several shots into the driver’s side window of his black Cadillac Deville, police and family members said.
Cpl. Clinton Copeland, a spokesman for Prince George’s County police, said detectives do not have a suspect and are still working to establish a motive for the killing. “It doesn’t appear to be a carjacking, he was sitting at the light, he wasn’t the only car there — it’s weird stuff, a mystery right now,” Copeland said.
Other motorists who were stopped at the intersection of Virginia Lane and Saint Barnabas Road witnessed the shooting but were able to provide only vague descriptions of the gunman, who quickly fled the scene, Copeland said.
Stephen I. Green Jr., the victim’s older brother, said the shooting occurred about the time his brother usually left his apartment in the 2700 block of Alice Avenue to go workout at a nearby gym.
Sean Green lived alone, had never been married and had passed a security background check to begin working at the National Counterterrorism Center in Northern Virginia about two years, according to his brother and a supervisor at the center. He worked in information technology and handled computers with sensitive national security information, the supervisor said.
“We’re all just in shock right now. This is a great loss, not just to our family but to the whole world,” Stephen I. Green Jr. said last night as he and others gathered at his parents’ home in Capitol Heights. “My brother came from a very loving and supportive family. He was a son, a brother, a nephew, a wonderful uncle — a positive member of society.”
The slaying is the second mysterious killing of a security worker in Prince George’s in recent months. In August, Kanika Powell, a security specialist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory was gunned down by someone waiting near her doorstep. Five days before she was killed, police said an impostor had knocked on her door claiming to be an FBI agent. Police said there’s no indication the two killings are connected.
Anyone with information about either crime is asked to call the county homicide detectives at 301-772-4925. Anonymous calls can be placed to 866-411-TIPS.
This is some scary stuff! Several of my childhood school mates sold their souls to work for the dark side after college. Unless you’re a member of the top 1% of the top 1% (which would mean you wouldn’t have a soul) we’re all expendable toolinski’s waiting to be made examples of should our conscious suddenly reappear. @Kev – Only half kidding here – hope Becky’s kin guard your lane.
RIP Sean Green and Kanika Powell.
For all the rest of the folks working in the military-industrial complex around DC on projects of interest in their 20s and 30s: get the hell out, move away, find some other way to make a living, and keep your fucking mouth shut.
It’s either that, or move to Virginia, get your concealed-carry permit, take some self-defense training, and get to know the folks in your community, get involved and prepared.
Most of the people involved with this shit are in it for the money, and if a target’s gonna be feisty and return fire, it’s not worth their skin for that kind of deal. All that may mean in the end is that you get offed from a different angle, instead of a straight-out gun-and-run; but god dammit, at least make it harder for the bastards.
And like jon says, having relatives and neighbors with some firepower will make people think twice before stirring up a blood feud.
This is a great loss, not just to our family but to the whole world
Something tells me the world didn’t need what this guy was working on.
In Berkeley, a dorm cafeteria manager with a master’s degree and had been a NSA worker near Las Vegas before becoming disgruntled, and he had a lot of interesting political opinions. He ate at our table and was highly antigov’t, somewhat conservative, and was depressed about his girlfriend imprisoned for heroin use. He grew up in a John Bircher family, but revised his focus later under Reagan/Bush. He had health problems related to obesity that caused him to end up homeless in Golden Gate park.