Murder of Young Woman at Washington Hotel Brings Renewed Attention to Capital’s Skyrocketing Crime

Security footage showed the young woman calling for help before the door to her room slammed shut.

Courtesy of the Bautista family
Christy Bautista, 31, was murdered in her hotel room at Washington, D.C., in yet another apparently random act of violence. Courtesy of the Bautista family

The murder of a 31-year-old Virginia woman in her northeast Washington, D.C. hotel room, allegedly by a man who recently was released from jail, prompted another round of calls for reform of the city’s lax law enforcement as a wave of violence engulfs the nation’s capital.

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