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CRIME
Teen Calls Shooting Of Girlfriend Accidental
A Southeast Washington teenager who was arrested this week in the shooting of his 15-year-old girlfriend said it was an accident, according to charging papers filed in D.C. Superior court.
Clifton Coleman, 18, shot his girlfriend Monday afternoon while they were in Coleman's house, in the 600 block of Atlantic Street SE, authorities said. The 15-year-old is expected to survive, police said.
Coleman is charged with assault with a deadly weapon while armed, according to the charging papers. Police searched his house and found two firearms, including a .45-caliber weapon, according to a source who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing.
The shooting occurred in the block where DeOnt¿ Rawlings, 14, was fatally shot Sept. 17 during a confrontation with two off-duty D.C. police officers.
ZONING
Date Set for Decision On Buddhist Center
The D.C. Board of Zoning Adjustment will decide Dec. 4 whether a two-story structure being built in Northwest Washington by a Buddhist association fits the city's criteria as a house of worship.
The board heard nearly four hours of testimony yesterday on plans by Soka Gakkai International-USA to complete a center for about 400 Buddhists on Massachusetts Avenue NW.
The project, which is under construction, is opposed by residents who are challenging the center's description as a house of worship. Under D.C. zoning, religious organizations can build places of worship in residential areas as a "matter of right."
The residents are appealing a decision by the zoning administrator's office this year that cleared the way for the project. The acting zoning administrator, Matthew Le Grant, defended the office's decision, saying more than half of the center's program space will be devoted to religious assembly.