Marion Barry’s son wants to follow in his footsteps – but he’s not choosing the right ways to do it. Washington D.C. police say Marion Christopher Barry, who is running for his father’s Ward 8 D.C. Council seat, is a suspect in a bank vandalism in D.C.’s Chinatown earlier this week.
The Washington Post reports:
Marion Christopher Barry, son of the late former D.C. mayor, threatened a teller and destroyed a surveillance camera at a Chinatown bank branch Tuesday, according to police.
Barry, 34, is running for the Ward 8 D.C. Council seat held by his father, Marion Barry Jr., before his death Nov. 23.
Barry did not respond to telephone calls made Tuesday and Wednesday. Frederick D. Cooke Jr., a lawyer who has previously represented both Barrys, said Wednesday that he was not aware of the incident and had not been contacted by Barry or the police about it.
A message left for Barry’s campaign manager, John Rodriguez, was not returned Wednesday.
According to a preliminary police report released Wednesday, a man, whom police officials have identified as Barry, entered the PNC Bank branch in the 800 block of Seventh Street NW around noon Tuesday and sought to make a “large cash withdrawal.” He was told, according to the report, that his account was overdrawn and could not make the withdrawal he requested.
“You always give me a hard time,” he replied, according to the report. “I’m going to have someone waiting for you when you get off, you b—-.”
He then threw a trash can over the security glass, the report said, striking and destroying a surveillance camera while the incident was being recorded on other cameras.
No arrest was made Tuesday related to the incident, said Lt. Sean Conboy, a police spokesman who confirmed basic details of the incident Tuesday but did not confirm Barry’s identity or other details.
Two police officials confirmed Wednesday that Barry is the suspect in the incident. Barry, they said, left the scene before officers arrived.
Marion Barry, 78, twice D.C.’s mayor and one of its most enduring politicians, died last November.
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